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A prelude to a New Middle East: Abraham Accords 2/3

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A rapprochement justified by the looming Iranian threat More than twenty years after its foundation by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic of Iran still remains an unparalleled political construction, a singular case, an object of...
Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande with His Excellency Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, chair of the Defense Affairs, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee for United Arab Emirates Federal National Council, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Feb. 7, 2022. Credit: Courtesy Ruth Wasserman Lande.

UAE parliament members visit Knesset for first time, talk of ‘full engagement’

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For the first time since the signing of the Abraham Accords, members of the United Arab Emirates Federal National Council visited the Knesset in Jerusalem. The top-level delegation included His Excellency Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, chair of...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visits the Western Wall in May 2017. Credit: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv.

Former Ambassador David Friedman warned by White House: ‘Don’t be so Jewish’

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was warned by a U.S. State Department staffer in 2017 not to be “so Jewish,” Breitbart has revealed. Friedman reportedly recounts the anti-Semitic episodes in his new book, Sledgehammer: How Breaking With the...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Expo 2020 Dubai, Jan. 31, 2022. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Herzog at Expo 2020 Dubai: In Israel, ‘the impossible is a tantalizing challenge’

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog on Monday opened the country’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, where national anthem “Hatikvah” was played. “Israel is a country in which obstacles become opportunities, and where the...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with Jewish leaders in Abu Dhabi. Top row (right to left): Yifat Turbiner, Steve Benchimol, Rabbi Levi Duchman, Rabbi Eli Abadi, Daniel Seal, Sarah Benchimol, and Ross Kriel. Bottom row (right to left): Israeli Ambassador in the UAE Amir Hayek, Herzog, first lady Michal Herzog, and UAE Ambassador in Israel Mohamed Al Khaja. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO

‘It’s safer to be Jewish in the UAE than in the USA’

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog and first lady Michal Herzog met on Sunday evening with Jewish community representatives in the United Arab Emirates, including a senior rabbi who told them that the UAE is safer...
A Bahraini man chats with an Israeli at Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda outdoor market, October 2021. Photo by Josh Hasten.

The emergence of Arab Zionism?

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While Western liberals and the U.N. Human Rights Council double down in their determination to demonize, delegitimize and destroy Israel, support for that beleaguered country is coming from a surprising direction. In 2020, people were...
Capitol Hill. Credit: rarrarorro/Shutterstock.

Israeli lawmakers herald launch of Abraham Accords Caucus in Congress

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Israeli lawmakers welcomed the launch of the Abraham Accords Caucus this week in Congress. The new caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington will be launched as a bipartisan initiative by Democrats and Republicans in both...

Amid warming ties with Muslim world, observers see Bangladesh as potential partner for Israe

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Since the signing of the Abraham Accords, there has been a remarkable shift in Israel’s relations with the Muslim world. New reports have emerged of the possibility of further breakthroughs in diplomatic ties with...

For Spain, cooperation between Israel and Morocco is more of an opportunity than a...

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A piece in El Español on Nov. 16 informed of a supposed agreement between Israel and Morocco to establish a joint military base in the Arab country. The news appears in the context of the current...
Aryeh Lightstone, former special envoy for economic normalization for the Abraham Accords and chief of staff to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Source: Screenshot.

Former envoy on Abraham Accords: ‘We should reward the peacemakers’

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Aryeh Lightstone, former special envoy for economic normalization for the Abraham Accords and chief of staff to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, believes that the Biden administration needs to focus on bolstering...