By Danielle Ziri, JPOST— CLEVELAND – Israeli annexation of settlements in the West Bank could be viewed by a Trump administration as a legitimate way for Israel to move forward if the Palestinians continue to avoid a real and genuine peace deal, David Friedman, a senior advisor to Donald Trump, told The Jerusalem Post on…
By TAMARA ZIEVE, JPOST— Netanyahu to olim: This journey is not just of personal importance, but of national importance. The largest French aliya flight so far this summer landed Wednesday at Ben-Gurion Airport, where the newcomers were greeted with calls of “bienvenue en Israel” at a festive reception in their honor. Some 200 French Jews…
By Bill Wilson, Daily Jot— Two events on the world stage in the past week have possibly contributed to the end time prophecy clock ticking forward. Turkey’s failed coup and Iran’s revelation of a side agreement that allows it to develop a nuclear weapons program sooner than had previously been reported are two events involving…
By JOHN GOLAN, JPOST— Despite what some may wish us to believe, the United States does not provide aid to Israel out of charity. Rather, it is a strategic investment, closely tied to US interests in the region: safeguarding the only reliable ally that the US has in that corner of the world; stabilizing the…
By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times— The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday. Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to…
By Victor Sharpe, Israel National News— Sovereignty refers to the defined right of nations, the ‘ownership’ of their territories and national interests. A nation is referred to as ‘sovereign’ in terms of its independent identity and rights. Sovereign rights are exercised within national territories. A nation has the legal right to insist on its sovereign…
By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST— With the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Monday in favor of abortion rights in the ongoing culture war on the issue that will now be re-inflamed, it is worth revisiting the issue in Israel and why there is so little public conflict about it here. First, let’s unpack what…
By Abraham Cooper, Harold Brackman, JPOST— As a shocked world reacted to England’s unexpected exit from the European Union, Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech to the European Parliament. Abbas, now in the 11th year of his four-year term, accused Israel of becoming a fascist country. Then he updated a vicious medieval anti-Semitic canard by…
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— No Israeli government official would dare say it, but a weakened EU is not necessarily a bad thing for Israel diplomatically. Economics might be another issue. The specter of the EU falling apart, and what kind of forces that will unleash, is also a separate matter. But on the very narrow…
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— While it may have huge ramifications for Britain, Europe, and the world’s economy, Britain’s decision on Thursday to leave or remain a part of the 28-state European Union will have little impact on Israel, Yigal Palmor, a veteran diplomat, said on Wednesday. Palmor’s comments followed a statement made on Monday evening…