Tag: Biden Administration
‘Biden not in control of Iran talks,’ says former top US State Department official
Gabriel Noronha, who worked on Iran policy at the U.S. State Department under former President Donald Trump, was fired for speaking out against the then-president following the Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill. Now,...
Israel to support UN resolution condemning Russia amid ceasefire talks
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Monday that Israel will vote in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In a statement on Twitter, Lapid said that...
Bennett to Conference of Presidents: ‘Israel will not accept Iran as a nuclear threshold...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told a visiting delegation of American Jewish leaders on Sunday that “Israel will not accept Iran as a nuclear threshold state.”
His statements to the Conference of Presidents of Major...
Why we should care about the fate of Ukraine
It’s difficult to know where exactly the crisis over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine will end. Yet no matter whether Russian President Vladimir Putin seizes more of the former Soviet satellite nation, conquers...
How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal
As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s...
Biden administration weighs $130 million of military aid, equipment to Egypt
The Biden administration is set to withhold $130 million of military aid to Egypt over human-rights concerns, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing U.S. State Department officials.
The report described the measure as a “rare punishment of a...
Iran’s ayatollahs threaten the US in Latin America
Driven by a genuine desire to rid the Middle East and the globe of terrorism and war—and reflecting a long track record and ingrained worldview—Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,...
Biden administration ‘deeply blind’ to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts
The U.S. State Department’s Population, Migration and Refugees Bureau ended 2021 with another payment to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a move some experts have criticized as wrongheaded and in line...
Gantz was warning Washington, not Tehran
It’s a classic case of good news and bad news. The good news refers to reports that the United States appears to be backing off on its plans to reopen the Jerusalem consulate to...
Biden administration renews talks with Palestinian officials on economic issues
The Biden administration renewed the US-Palestinian Economic Dialogue (USPED) group on Tuesday that had been frozen by the Trump administration.
The meeting, which was held virtually, was the first in five years and brought together...