TEL AVIV – Egypt on Sunday categorically denied a New York Times report that claimed Cairo had tacitly accepted President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and took surreptitious steps to persuade the Egyptian public that it was a good thing, despite vociferous public declarations in protest of the move.
TEL AVIV – Arab nations will push for recognition of “Palestine” with eastern Jerusalem as its capital following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last month.
Sweden’s ambassador to Israel was summoned Wednesday to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, where he was dressed down over Stockholm’s support for an anti-Israel resolution that was passed at the United Nations’ cultural agency the day before.
TEL AVIV – A senior aide to President Barack Obama made the wildly exaggerated claim in an interview on PBS that Israel was constructing “tens of thousands” of new settlements in the West Bank, an error that prompted the network’s ombudsman to demand a “clarifying or correcting” statement from the news program on Friday.
On Thursday, Republican Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced legislation that would defund the United Nations over the Security Council’s passage of UN Resolution 2334, which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday for disavowing the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity as a “flagrant violation of international law.”
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam there was some congressional pushback against “USexit,” the drive to pull the U.S. out of the United Nations after its anti-Israel vote.
TEL AVIV – Congressional Republicans are moving quickly to denounce the United Nations for its recent Security Council resolution deeming all Israeli settlements as “flagrant violation[s] of international law.
TEL AVIV – A member of the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday slammed the countries that supported the anti-settlement resolution at the UN Security Council, saying that Israel was betrayed by the very nations that asked it for assistance in fighting terror.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas imposed conditions on resuming peace talks with Israel, saying an end to settlement construction and an implementation of existing agreements were necessary in order for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on his vision for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel was being treated “very, very unfairly” by the international community, and added that he and the outgoing secretary have “different views” on the conflict.
TEL AVIV – “Obama is history. We have Trump,” Israel’s Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev said on Tuesday, adding that President Barack Obama never supported Israel.
TEL AVIV – An Egyptian newspaper published what it said were leaked transcripts of alleged secret meetings between senior White House officials – including Secretary of State John Kerry – and the Palestinian Authority that purport to show that the Obama administration
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacted with “euphoria” to the adoption of the anti-settlement resolution at the UN Security Council, saying it “proves that the world considers settlements illegal, and [recognizes that] they were built on our occupied land, including in east Jerusalem.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s ambassador to the United States warned Tuesday that the country will provide “evidence” to President-elect Donald Trump that President Barack Obama was behind Friday’s anti-settlement resolution at the United Nations Security Council. Ambassador Ron Dermer told CNN
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that President Barack Obama may have more surprises in store for Israel following the U.S.’s “shameful” abstention at the United Nations.
TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump said that the UN vote demanding Israel end all settlements would make a peace agreement more difficult than ever.
TEL AVIV – Mike Huckabee is in a “seething rage” over the Obama administration’s decision not to veto a United Nations anti-Israel resolution, and slammed U.S. policy regarding the two-state solution as “boneheaded.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed President Barack Obama for allowing the UN to “gang up” on Israel by passing a “disgraceful” UN resolution that labels the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City occupied territory.
With President Barack Obama’s abstention at the United Nations Security Council on Friday, the Democratic Party is now an anti-Israel party.
Even as he allowed an anti-Israel resolution to pass at the UN Security Council, President Barack Obama wished Jews a “Happy Hanukkah” on Friday.
TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton reiterated her position that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was an impediment to peace, ahead of her Methodist church’s bid to join the Israel boycott, The Times of Israel reported.
