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TEL AVIV – A top U.S. Congressman said after a visit to Israel this week that it’s time to find new ways of solving the Israeli-Palestinians conflict that do not preclude the two state solution.

Qatar has fully rekindled its diplomatic relationship with state sponsor of terrorism Iran, disregarding the demands of U.S.-backed Arab countries that have severed ties with Doha to isolate it over its alleged links to the Islamic Republic and various jihadist groups.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner on Thursday as part of a visit to the region with the aim of jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

A 14-year-old boy in Saudi Arabia was arrested by authorities after a year-old video emerged of him dancing to the Spanish-language song the “Macarena” in the port city of Jeddah.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday declared the Trump administration to be in “chaos” and that the White House’s plans for peace were incomprehensible.

Qatar on Monday denied it had banned Saudi Arabian flights from landing in the emirate to transport Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, after an accusation by authorities in Riyadh.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers on Saturday said they were anticipating renewed efforts by the U.S. to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations  ahead of a visit to the region by advisers to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner and

TEL AVIV — A draft bill presented to Tunisian parliament that would give women and men equality with regard to inheritance laws and allow Muslim Tunisian women to marry non-Muslim men has drawn anger from the conservative circles in the country and the wider Arab world.

TEL AVIV — The leadership of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group has plans to bring one of its own officials before a disciplinary committee after he criticized Iran, a senior source within the organization has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Israel’s press office said Wednesday it is revoking the credentials of a prominent Al-Jazeera reporter pending a hearing after he told another TV station that the work of Palestinian journalists is part of the “resistance.”

The diplomatic crisis between Qatar and neighboring Gulf states took an ominous turn this week, as Saudi Arabia began circulating a video that it explains it could legally shoot down Qatari passenger planes that violate its airspace. The video includes computer animation of what such a missile attack would look like.

Alleged leaked email correspondence between two former U.S. officials suggests that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wishes to end the war in Yemen, two long and bloody years after he started it.

TEL AVIV — H.R. McMaster, the embattled National Security Adviser to President Trump, is threatening U.S. national security by refusing to recognize radical Islamic terrorism, a top terrorism expert told Breitbart News.

Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners have appealed to Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to show mercy and halt the executions of 14 young people sentenced to death for participating in protests in 2012.

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TEL AVIV — The Saudi newspaper Al Riyadh has become a target of anger for many Hamas supporters in the Palestinian territories and across the Arab world after it labeled the movement a terrorist organization.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday praised Communications Minister Ayoub Kara for taking concrete steps to “stop incitement” with a decision to permanently shutter Qatari-based news channel Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau. 

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The government has censored the release of files detailing Britain’s military relationship with the fundamentalist, Islamist Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have started using a new route across the Gulf to funnel covert arms shipments to their Houthi allies in Yemen’s civil war, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters.

Turkey has begun a modest and long-planned, but perhaps politically significant, joint military exercise with Qatar, the Gulf state shunned by several of its Sunni Muslim neighbors in a bitter diplomatic dispute.

The first group of Iranian pilgrims has departed for Saudi Arabia on the 2017 Hajj pilgrimage, the journey to the holy city of Mecca and Medina that every Muslim is supposed to undertake at least once in a lifetime.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the launch of a massive tourism project that will turn 50 islands and a string of sites on the Red Sea coast into luxury resorts.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister called what he said was Qatar’s demand for an internationalization of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage a declaration of war against the kingdom, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, but Qatar said it never made such a call.

Qatar refuses to bow to Saudi-led demands to “outsource” its foreign policy to resolve the Gulf crisis, its government spokesman told AFP in an interview.

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The U.N.’s top official in Yemen is on his way out, sources tell Breitbart News, with the United Nations “actively looking” to quietly push the under-fire envoy out the door when his contract runs out in September, all while the Yemen civil war continues to quickly spiral out of control.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered the arrest of a prince after video emerged of the young royal delivering vicious beatings to men and women.

When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef was abruptly swapped out for a younger model, rock-star Prince Mohammed bin Salman, there were rumors the transfer of power wasn’t as smooth as the Saudi government portrayed it. The government dismissed rumors that Nayef was placed under comfortable house arrest while Salman’s ascension was completed.

Saudi Arabian authorities have reportedly decided to release the young woman who challenged its strict dress code by walking through a historic site wearing a miniskirt and crop top but only after questioning her for hours and determining she did not realize she was being videotaped for YouTube.

TEL AVIV — Twitter users in Saudi Arabia have been in an uproar of late after a Snapchat video went viral of a local young woman wearing a mini skirt walking through an ancient fort in Ushayqir, Hadj.

A young woman in Saudi Arabia was arrested on Monday for wearing “suggestive clothing” after a Snapchat video emerged of her wearing a miniskirt, state media confirmed.

The Palestinian terror movement Hamas, which has been trying to relocate senior officials who were asked to leave Qatar, has asked Algerian authorities for permission to open an office there, the Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported Monday.

The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of a Qatari government news site in May, planting a false story that was used as a pretext for the current crisis between Qatar and several Arab countries, according to a Sunday report by The Washington Post.