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Riyadh – Saudi air defences on Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom’s southern border city of Najran, which set a farm ablaze, state media said.

King Abdullah II of Jordan said Sunday that the United States remains essential to any hope of a peaceful solution between Israel and the Palestinians, despite criticism of the new US stance on Jerusalem by Arab states and the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s claim that he earns a modest monthly salary of about $1,300 has drawn more than its share of skepticism among Arab commentators on social media.

TEL AVIV — The riots in the streets of Iran have excited social media networks in the Sunni Arab world ever since they first broke out, with many expressing their hope that the confrontations would harm the extremist Iranian regime, which is trying to exert its influence over Arab states.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the threat posed by Iran to its Middle Eastern neighbours was driving them into hitherto unthinkable alliances with the Jewish state.

JERUSALERM — The Temple Mount, one of the most sensitive sites in the world, has been utilized by Arab states and Muslim leaders the past few days to spew wild accusations against Israel following events triggered by last Friday’s deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the site.

As the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and four key Arab states intensified on Monday, Middle East policy experts argued that time may be running out for the emirate’s twin strategy of seeking international acclaim and recognition while supporting terrorism at the same time.

U.S.-Israel relations were restored to their customary warmth, while Trump and Netanyahu also indicated five new directions for future policy.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah criticized Saudi Arabia on Thursday night for an apparent warming of ties with Israel, accusing it of “normalizing for free, without receiving anything in return.”

Iran has officially resumed funding to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, the London-based newspaper Asharq al Awsat has reported, confirming a Breitbart Jerusalem report last month.

The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel is ready to engage with Arab states to advance a peace deal with the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – The official Saudi daily ran an article attacking the Obama administration for its “soft power” policy in the Middle East, saying the U.S. “surrendered Syria” and turned its back on Arab nations in the region, leaving Russia to pick up the pieces.

The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said it was time for some Arab states with which Israel has covert ties to publicly acknowledge those relationships. Addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,

Following the recent appointment of an India-born Sikh as Canada’s new defense minister, the editor of the Jordanian daily Al Ghad wrote an analysis bemoaning the Arab world’s inability to fulfill its dreams of true democracy. He blamed “schizophrenic” voters

On Thursday, China launched its second annual China-Arab States Expo in Ningxia province, which the state-run Xinhua news agency describes as “home to more than 10 percent of China’s 20 million Muslims.” Don’t expect that total to be increasing by any significant number of Syrians any time soon.

The Arab states have opposed the Iran deal from a very early stage, seeing Iran’s regional ambitions as a direct threat. As negotiations went on, Saudi Arabia and other states were vocal and demonstrative in their protests, and warned that they, too, might seek nuclear weapons.