By Israel Today— During a recent campaign stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that he was the only candidate who would extend Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, because he truly believes in the Bible. Speaking to children at a religious school in the Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Yericho, the prime minister encouraged them to…
DetailsBy David Singer, IsraelNationalNews— PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas’s dismissive response to President Trump’s peace plan spells the end of the road for the PLO as Israel’s Arab partner to negotiate an end to the 100 years unresolved conflict between Jews and Arabs. The PLO will maintain its long-standing rejectionist policy of not recognising Israel as…
DetailsBy The Guardian— A handful of date seeds from fruit that ripened around the time of Jesus have been successfully planted and grown in southern Israel, researchers have revealed. The seeds, dubbed Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah, were among many others discovered at archaeological sites in the Judean desert. It is not the…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— Arab citizens of Israel, who number nearly two million, are up in arms about US President Donald Trump’s plan for Middle East peace, which proposes including some of their communities in a future Palestinian state. Since the unveiling of the plan, thousands of Arabs have been demonstrating to express…
DetailsBy Victor Sharpe— There can be NO so-called Palestinian state ripped from even one centimeter of the ancestral and Biblical Jewish heartland, however persuasively it is presented. Judea and Samaria, the very heart of the Land of Israel that the One and Only G-d bequeathed to the Jewish people is an eternal Covenant. It is…
DetailsBy Jonathan S. Tobin, Israel Hayom— The effort to impeach and remove US President Donald Trump from office has produced many losers and few winners. The drama of the trial in the US Senate is must-see TV for political junkies, but it has also been dispiriting viewing for Americans of all political stripes. Few issues…
DetailsBy Ron Jager— Irrespective of the ambiguities and the “open to negotiation” provisions of President Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” Israel clearly stands at an historic juncture very similar to the Ben Gurion period. At the time, Israel’s political leadership had to either accept or reject the United Nations partition plan and decide what to…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, Jpost—- From 1994 through 1996, as a captain in the IDF, I served as a member of Israel’s negotiating team with the PLO. Those years were the heyday of the so-called peace process. As the coordinator of negotiations on civil affairs for the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza,…
DetailsJoin us this week as Jim Scudder, Jr. and Holocaust survivor, Steen Metz, visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
By Jonathan S. Tobin, Israel Hayom— Disdain for President Donald Trump and the people who work in his administration runs deep in the media, as well as the foreign-policy establishment. At the core of this attitude is the current administration’s rejection of the conventional wisdom about diplomacy and the Middle East that governed American policy…
DetailsBy Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JPost— Uganda is reportedly planning to announce that it is moving its embassy to Jerusalem next week, sources close to the Ugandan president and the Ugandan Christian community told The Jerusalem Post. A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry could not confirm the report. The Hebrew website Ynet reported on Wednesday that Prime…
DetailsBy Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report— US policy: *The Deal of the Century (DoC) demonstrates the US independence of diplomatic action rather than subordinating its interests to the whims of the UN, Europe and the 3rd World. *The DoC proves that the US is not trapped in the fallacy of moral equivalence and…
DetailsBy Shoshana Bryen, The Daily Wire— President Donald Trump’s Middle East “Deal of the Century” peace plan — The Vision — is 180 pages long and meticulously detailed. Read it if you like. But the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covered the high points Tuesday before an enthusiastic, pro-Israel audience at the White…
DetailsBy The White House, Press Release— BOLD VISION FOR PEACE: President Donald J. Trump recognizes it is time for a new approach to achieve peace, security, dignity, and opportunity for Israel and the Palestinian people. This Vision is the most serious, realistic, and detailed plan ever presented, one that could make Israelis, Palestinians, and the…
DetailsBy Reuters— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday reiterated his support for Trump’s plan, telling Fox television: “We will not contradict in any way the outline that the president put forward.” He added that the Palestinians must prove themselves before statehood. “Getting Hamas out of Gaza isn’t going to be easy,” he added. “Assuming we…
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