The White House’s plan for peace in the Middle East

By Arutz Sheva— US Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt spoke to senior Israeli officials and representatives of the Palestinian Authority about the US plan for negotiating a final status agreement, Channel 20 reported. Among the items mentioned in the US proposal were: slowing building in Judea and Samaria, creating security arrangements in partnership with Jordan…

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Abbas’ Advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash: We Shall Not Relinquish a Single Micromillimeter of the Western Wall

By MEMRI— In a Friday sermon, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, advisor to PA President Abbas on Religious and Islamic affairs, said that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, along with the Al-Buraq Wall (the Western Wall) was an Islamic religious endowment and could never belong to non-Muslims. “We cannot possibly relinquish a single millimeter, a single stone, a single micromillimeter…

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Trump’s Jews and Obama’s Jews

By Daniel Greenfield, The Left is losing the culture war within the Jewish community. Seen from above, the 2016 electoral map of New York City is blue with dots of red. Trump’s home district is blue, but across the water a red wedge slices into Brooklyn. Around that red wedge are districts where Hillary won…

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Waiting on Washington

By Steve Bramer, Breaking Israel News— The Middle East would require a bold American leader to jumpstart peace negotiations in Jerusalem, if such a process is even possible. Since the mid-1970s, many presidents have tried but all have failed. The only way to ensure that the Palestinian Arab leadership gets serious about negotiations is to…

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‘There is massive support for united Jerusalem among US Jews’

BY Dudi Caspi, Israel Hayom— As part of the celebrations marking the 50th year of the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, the city of Los Angeles held an event led by former Foreign Ministry Director General Dr. Dore Gold. Hosting a “Jerusalem United: Fifty Years of Freedom, Three Thousand Years of Jewish History,”…

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Dore Gold’s fight for Jerusalem

By David Suissa, Jewish Journal— In a nutshell, Gold made a compelling and visual case for the deep, uninterrupted, 3,000-year Jewish connection to Jerusalem. Using artifacts from biblical times, ancient scrolls, recent archeology discoveries, legal documents from international bodies and other pieces of evidence that appeared on a large screen, Gold was like a trial…

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The Palestinian-North Korean Connection

By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, Israel Hayom— A thorough examination of the track record of the Palestinian Authority, the PLO, Fatah (all three headed by Mahmoud Abbas) and Hamas is a prerequisite for a realistic assessment of the nature of the proposed Palestinian state and its potential impact upon vital US interests in the Middle…

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Jerusalem United (Forever?): The Hopeful, Unsure, Legacy of the 6 Day War

By Marc LiVecche, Providence Mag— On the third day of the 6 Day War, from atop the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, Colonel Mordechai (Motta) Gur, commander of the 55th Paratroopers Brigade, gives a historic order over the Israeli Defense Forces’ wireless: All company commanders, we’re sitting right now on the ridge…

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Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Six Day War

By Sarah Stern, EMET— Exactly 50 years ago today, in an attempt to annihilate Israel and to create a “pan-Arabist movement,” Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser closed the Gulf of Aqaba and began amassing thousands of troops into the Sinai Peninsula. The United Nations had withdrawn its emergency forces from Gaza and the Sinai leaving…

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Is a “Friend of Hamas” Set to Be Next Prime Minister of England?

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, BIN— British Prime Minister Theresa May‘s decision to call for early decision backfired, as the results of Thursday’s election meant no party could win the necessary 326 seat majority of the 650 seat parliament, paving the way for anti-Israel Jeremy Corbyn. With the majority of the votes counted, May’s right-wing Conservative…

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There is a famine for the word of God

By Abra Forman, BIN— The inaugural “Prophecy in the News” conference, hosted by Breaking Israel News in Jerusalem on Monday, brought together journalists, government officials, thought leaders, and religious leaders to proclaim the powerful message that Biblical prophecy is, indeed, coming to life today. With 200 attendees at the Bible Lands Museum and thousands of…

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‘Israel ensures that Jerusalem’s holy sites remain open to all’

By Israel Hayom— Israel has ensured that the holy sites to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Jerusalem remain accessible to everyone, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, speaking in the Knesset in a digital joint session with the U.S. Congress marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War. If Israel were not here, the…

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US envoy: We will not allow UN to bully Israel anymore

By Israel Hayom— U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said Wednesday the U.S. would not allow the U.N. to “bully” Israel anymore. Haley made the comments in Jerusalem, a day after she berated the U.N.’s top human rights body for ignoring countries with horrendous human rights records while focusing obsessively on Israel. Israel has…

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