Daily Archives: July 25, 2024
Israel’s public diplomacy failure
Despite military achievements in Gaza, Israel faces defeats on other fronts: public relations, diplomacy and legal battles. These are part of public diplomacy, which is as crucial as military strategy.
The failure lies in framing...
Netanyahu’s hour
For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind.
For some 54 minutes, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S....
Netanyahu-Biden meeting to focus on Gaza ceasefire deal
Ongoing efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza will take center stage during Israeli Prime Minister’s scheduled meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday, according to administration officials.
A senior administration...
‘Despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters’ at Union Station, Harris says
The day after anti-Israel rioters burned American flags and tagged areas near Washington’s Union Station with antisemitic graffiti—ostensibly in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress—Kamala Harris,...
Pelosi calls Netanyahu’s speech the ‘worst’ of any foreign leader in Congress
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday afternoon as the “worst” by a foreign leader in...
UNRWA ‘not as an organization engaged in the conflict,’ US envoy says
Although Washington takes Israel’s allegations that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack “very, very seriously,” it does not believe that the global body’s relief...
RJC places five-figure ad buy against Vice President Kamala Harris
In response to her decision not to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday afternoon, the Republican Jewish Coalition announced its first digital advertising buy against Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive...
Deal with Hamas in reach, senior US official says
A senior Biden administration official who spoke on background with reporters on Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress denied that Netanyahu is holding up a deal that...
Jerusalem warns Paris of Iran-backed plan to strike Israeli Olympians
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a message to French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on Thursday, one day prior to the launch of the Olympic Games in Paris, warning of an Iranian threat to...
YouGov poll: Support for Israel fell since Oct. 7, while Palestinian sympathy rose
YouGov released a poll this week conducted in partnership with The Economist showing decreased advocacy for Israel among Americans.
The group’s research suggested that since a high of pro-Israel sympathies at 48% on Oct. 14—one week after the Hamas...