Tag: Trump Administration
White House to hold meeting to decide whether to support Israeli annexation
The White House is expected to hold a meeting presided by U.S. President Donald Trump with U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and other high-level officials to discuss support over Israel’s plan to annex...
Bolton’s temper tantrum
Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s critics routinely refer to him as a neoconservative. But they are wrong. Bolton was never part of the neoconservative clique of Bush administration officials.
Neoconservatives are messianists and...
Report: US administration to hold ‘dramatic’ meeting on Israel’s sovereignty bid
Senior U.S. administration officials will hold a meeting this week on whether or not to give the green light to the Israeli government to apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, and parts of Judea...
Amid criticism of Trump plan by leaders in Judea and Samaria, others see ‘historic...
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to lay the groundwork to begin the process of applying Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, and parts of Judea and Samaria, a debate has emerged...
Rep. Ilhan Omar laments Israeli, Saudi influence in Trump administration
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) compared Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Trump administration to that of Israel’s, lamenting the money both have invested in pushing their policies.
Ahead of the Tuesday publication of her book This Is...
US officials frustrated by settler leaders’ opposition to Trump plan
Frustration is mounting among U.S. administration officials over the position expressed by some setter leaders in Israel, who oppose President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan.
According to the plan, Washington will endorse an Israeli...
Palestinians in Nablus burn effigy of Pompeo
Palestinians in the city of Nablus in the West Bank burned an effigy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in protest of his visit to Israel on Wednesday and against the...
The final days of the Iran nuclear deal
There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be dead.
Under the deal with the United States, China, Russia,...
Trump administration’s 2021 budgets excludes funding for Palestinian security forces
U.S. funding for Palestinian security forces was excluded in the Trump administration’s budget released on Monday for the 2021 fiscal year—the first time that a U.S. government budget excluded funds for that purpose.
The budget...
Trump unveils ‘deal of century,’ recognizing Israeli settlements, path to Palestinian statehood
U.S. President Donald Trump, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in front of top administration officials and prominent guests, announced on Tuesday details of the...