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Saudis, Gulf states barred airspace to US, Israel during Iran attack

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Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states denied the United States and Israel access to their airspace during Iran’s attack on Israel on Saturday. While Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates shared intelligence to help counter the attack,...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog takes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel to witness the destruction left by Hamas terrorists, Nov. 27, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/POOL.

An ‘Abraham Plan’ for the Middle East

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Oct. 7, the day of Hamas’s barbaric, abhorrent terrorist attack on Israel, marked a watershed moment for the Middle East, with far-reaching consequences. In the short-term, Israel—which must be backed to the fullest extent—will...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with U.S. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Nov. 15, 2023. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Defense Ministry.

Gallant talks Hamas war with visiting White House official

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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met on Wednesday with U.S. Special Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv. Gallant began the meeting by expressing...
Jason Greenblatt at the Seventh Annual Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala at Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 28, 2019. Credit: SD Mack/Shutterstock.

Will Trump have the last word over Middle East ‘experts?’

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This is not the script that the foreign-policy establishment wanted President Joe Biden to follow in the Middle East. Nor does it reflect his own inclinations or those of fellow Obama administration alumni who...
U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit: POTUS/Twitter.

The many messages of Biden’s Mideast trip

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U.S. President Joe Biden is set to arrive in Israel on Wednesday for his first visit to the Jewish state as president, and there are a number of factors at play, experts told JNS. Israeli...
Left: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. Right: U.S. President Joe Biden. Source: U.S. State Department/Joe Biden via Facebook.

The fatal contradictions of Biden’s Middle East trip

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The decision of an American president to visit the Middle East has always been seen primarily through the lens of its impact on efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is not the case...
Flags with FIFA and Qatar 2022 World Cup logo waving in the wind. Credit: rarrarorro/Shutterstock.

Israelis get approval to head to Qatar for World Cup

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Add another Gulf destination has opened to Israeli citizens, at least for a month. Despite a lack of diplomatic relations between Doha and Jerusalem, Israelis will have the opportunity to travel to Qatar for the 2022...
United Arab Emirates Rabbi Levi Duchman (right), and Dubai rabbis Mendel Blau and Mendel Duchman, with handmade shmurah matzah destined for the UAE, Kfar Chabad, Israel, March 21, 2022. Photo by Shneor Shif/Jewish UAE.

Passover in UAE: 1,000 people take part in history-making seder

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More than a thousand people gathered in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on April 15 to celebrate the Passover seder, the largest one to ever take place in the UAE. “Our...
King Abdullah II of Jordan in 2018. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.

Jordan struggles with winds of change in Middle East

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The Negev Summit that took place on March 27 may have included a number of important foreign ministers from the region, but one was notably missing: Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman H. Safadi. Why...
A delegation of foreign leaders, including Paraguay, Liberia and Argentina on a visit to Jerusalem hosted by former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon. Source: Danny Danon/Twitter.

International delegation visits Israel to take Abraham Accords to next level

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Israel recently hosted an international delegation from several countries on the third leg of a fact-finding mission that also visited two of the signatories of the Abraham Accords: the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Former...