Tag: Trump Administration
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman: Mideast is ‘exploding with good opportunities’ under Trump
Over the past four years, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has charted a new direction towards Israel, Iran and the greater Middle East. Many of the policies advanced are considerably different from...
Netanyahu: ‘I can only hope current US policy will continue in coming years’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed his hope that America’s current Middle East policy would continue to hold sway in the years to come.
Speaking at a press conference in Ramat Gan, Netanyahu...
Netanyahu, Friedman officially extend scientific cooperation to Judea and Samaria, Golan Heights
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday signed the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Agreement at Ariel University in Samaria.
The agreement expands scientific and academic cooperation between the...
Report: State Department weighs designating human-rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon declare that several prominent international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are, in fact, anti-Semitic organizations, Politico reported on Thursday.
Citing sources familiar with the issue, the report...
US blacklists Iran’s financial sector, sanctions 18 banks
The United States has issued new sanctions targeting Iranian banks and blacklisted Iran’s financial sector.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it has sanctioned 18 Iranian banks, sixteen of them for operating in Iran’s...
America doesn’t have to choose between appeasing Turkey or Iran
Does it matter that Turkey appears to think that it can relitigate the outcome of World War I? That’s the question observers were forced to confront last week when its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
US sanctions top officials on International Criminal Court
The United States sanctioned two top officials at the International Criminal Court, which U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in announcing the move on Wednesday, called a “thoroughly broken and corrupt institution.”
ICC chief prosecutor...
Kushner: All 22 Arab League states may normalize relations with Israel
Jared Kushner, senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, said in an interview published on Tuesday that he believes that it is possible all 22 Arab states will make peace with Israel, and that...
More Arab and Muslim states likely to normalize relations with Israel, says top US...
U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said on Sunday that more Arab and Muslim states were likely to normalize relations with Israel following the deal with the United Arab Emirates.
O’Brien and Trump’s son-in-law and...
Pence, Grenell, Kellogg applaud administration’s pro-Israel accomplishments
On the third night of the Republican National Convention, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, and Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg—Pence’s national security...