Palestinians Disappointed, Upset by Trump’s Silence on Two States in Abbas Meeting

By Valerie Locke, Breaking Israel News— Perhaps the most significant words in President Donald Trump’s joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday were the ones he didn’t say: two-state solution. Trump met with Abbas for the second time this month in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, outside Jerusalem, while on a diplomatic…

Is Trump a false Cyrus?

By Benjamin Glatt, JPost— Less than a year after Harry S. Truman left the presidency, he was invited to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York to meet with dignitaries there. Eddie Jacobson, a long-time friend of his and the one who advised him to recognize the nascent State of Israel in 1948, boastingly introduced…