Donald Trump announced an Israel-UAE peace deal today, an historic accompishment by any measure.

Of course, the haters were gonna hate, but the effort also was widely praised.

(more…)

This is breaking news, and will be updated.

Donald Trump has announced a peace agreement has been reached through U.S. efforts between Israel and the United Arab Emirites. The UAE would be only the third Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan, to make peace and establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. Israel...

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have released an open letter warning the Israeli government against applying sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria region. The letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior members of his government was endorsed by 191 out of 233 House Democrats. None...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told Israel to “abandon” plans to apply sovereignty over parts of the Judea and Samaria region, news agency Reuters reported. The move “would constitute a most serious violation of international law,” the UN chief warned. 

(more…)

The European Union is launching a diplomatic campaign to stop Israel from applying sovereignty over parts of the Judea and Samaria region, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell declared on Friday. “We must work to discourage any possible initiative toward annexation,” he said.

(more…)

From March 1-3, 2020, I attended the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Annual Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on a press pass. As part of my coverage of the conference, I spent nearly four hours interviewing, taping, and photographing anti-Israel protesters who had gathered outside the venue.

Though their chants of...

When it comes to implementing U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan, Washington trusts Israel, but does not feel the same way about the current Palestinian leadership, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Sunday.

(more…)

President Donald Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan received a mixed response from the European leaders. While the European Union, France, and Germany reacted with caution to the U.S. initiative, it was received positively by the leaders of the United Kingdom and Austria.

(more…)

Yesterday, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.

(more…)

President Donald Trump will announce his Middle East peace plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It will take place at 12 p.m. ET in the White House East Room.

(more…)

Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Palestinian leadership has decided to thwart U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan by inciting mass protests, media reports suggest. “Palestinian officials warned over the weekend that US President Donald Trump’s plan for Mideast peace, which is expected to be announced on Tuesday, would...

Australia has blasted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for launching an investigation against Israel.

Rejecting the decision by the Hague-based tribunal to target the Jewish State over alleged ‘war crimes,’ Australia’s Foreign Ministry questioned the legitimacy of the ICC probe against Israel. “Australia’s position is clear — we do not recognize a...

In the aftermath of Israel’s security-based decision Thursday to bar pro-BDS Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) entry into the country, their west coast Congressional colleague Ted Lieu (D-CA) was one of many Democrats who were outraged.

(more…)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a new community in the Golan Heights named after U.S. President Donald Trump. The Israeli Prime Minister convened a cabinet meeting at the site on Sunday as part of the formal inauguration. U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, along with officials from the Golan...

Yasser Arafat reportedly boasted that:

“the womb of the Arab woman is my strongest weapon”

(more…)

President Donald Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy rightfully called the BDS movement anti-Semitic. From The Wash...

Then-president Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal was widely condemned on the right and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who referred to the deal as a “bad” and “very bad deal.”  One of then-candidate Trump’s campaign promises was to extract the the U.S. from this very bad deal, and