Tag: U.S.-Israel Relations
Senate Majority Leader Schumer meets with Israeli Ambassador Herzog in DC
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog on Thursday in Washington, D.C., just weeks before U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to arrive in the...
Hussein al-Sheikh is gradually stepping into Mahmoud Abbas’s shoes
Israeli and U.S. officials are watching Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ affairs with concern. Senior Fatah officials report that something is happening to the 86-year-old Abbas. He has slowed his activity and cut back...
Biden visit to Israel aims to please, but may alienate all parties instead
Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s as-yet-unconfirmed visit to Israel next month, a number of reports have surfaced regarding what the president aims to achieve during his trip to the region. One report claimed...
Israeli defense minister, US national security advisor meet in White House
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz commenced his official visit to the United States on Wednesday, meeting with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in the White House. The two discussed various security threats, foremost...
Blinken congratulates Israel on its 74th Independence Day
As Israel celebrates 74 years since its independence, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent his congratulations in a statement on Wednesday.
Blinken said the relationship between the United States and Israel is unshakeable, based...
America’s biblical roots
The following is an abridged version of the Distinguished Rennert Lecture, delivered on April 19 by Ambassador David Friedman upon receipt of the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for...
How the US perpetuates Palestinian violence
The U.S. State Department welcomed the first night of Passover with an admonition against violence.
“We are closely monitoring events in Jerusalem during this sacred holiday period for Jews, Muslims and Christians,” read the official...
Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?
As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you can’t win. Given the Biden administration’s unshakable commitment to cutting a deal with Iran that...
A free lunch for Amnesty’s anti-Semitism
It’s not clear what it will take for critics of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to admit that it wasn’t he who turned support for Israel into a “wedge issue” in the United States...
Washington’s betrayal has only just begun
The Washington Examiner reported last week that Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers are actively plotting to murder former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. According to the report, late last year, Bolton joined...