A much-overlooked motive for President Trump’s historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is to jump-start the Middle East peace process, and do it on terms more favorable to Israel, experts on the Middle East tell WND. As the world will soon find out, Arab leaders in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan who
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Middle East, USABy Sue Surkes Israel’s security cabinet will be able to decide to go to war without consulting the full cabinet, according to a bill green-lighted Sunday by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. The ministerial committee actually approved two bills combined into one. The first specified that with the prime minister’s approval, the cabinet can delegate
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Middle EastThe Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved a bill on Sunday that would officially place Israeli colleges and universities in Judea and Samaria under Israeli law. As Ariel University, Orot College in Elkana, and Herzog College in the Eztion Bloc are located in Judea and Samaria, they are not officially considered institutes of higher learning under
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe head of one of the two rival groups of the staunchly anti-Zionist Satmar Hassidic movement ripped into President Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week. Satmar, known as one of the most dogmatically anti-Zionist Hassidic sects, refuses to recognize the State of Israel and calls on members living in Israel not to
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastMK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) responded on Sunday to the riots by Arabs that have taken place throughout the country since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “With the Palestinians everything is used as a catalyst for violence, but Israel will always be stronger than them. They
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Middle EastThe residents of the ‘Machpelah House’ in Hevron agreed to be evacuated from their home Sunday. The residents told the Supreme Court that they would agree to leave the homes they claim were legally purchased if the State agreed to demolish a nearby storehouse illegally set up by local Arabs. Jews took possession of the
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Middle East[youtube:2036012] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Sunday, days after President Donald Trump declared that the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel”s capital city, and announced that the State Department would begin the process of relocated the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Donald Trump
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International, Middle EastThe Ministerial Legislative Committee approved a government proposal sponsored by Labor and Social Services Minister Haim Katz (Likud) which would allow the minister to define and limit the conditions under which government employees or employees of state-owned entities may be employed on the Sabbath. Under the proposal, the Labor and Social Services Minister would be
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Donald’s speech about Jerusalem was his best performance to date. Perhaps because it was tightly controlled. He read a prepared presentation whose details had been known and commented upon for several hours. We didn’t have to experience the bi-lingual confusion of a simultaneous translation in Hebrew overlaying the President’s English.
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By Juliet Moses AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Sometimes, when considering the past, it is tempting to indulge in a “what if” thought experiment. 2017 is a year of milestones in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is 50 years since the Six Day War, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which was the British Government’s statement of
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International, Middle EastBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — There is hysteria in much of the British press, and BBC, to the USA recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital. This is almost to be expected. The British Government under Theresa May, is pro Israel, but opposes the move. Our Prime Minister takes every opportunity to oppose President Trump,
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle East, USAThe Undoing Project; a Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis; W.W. Norton and Co. (c) 2017. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — In this book Michael Lewis sets out to describe the way two Israeli psychologists worked together over the course of several years to develop a theory about the process
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastLebanon’s prime minister on Saturday criticised a visit by an Iraqi Shiite militia leader to Lebanon’s ceasefire line with Israel, saying it violated local law. The trip by Qais al-Khazali, the founder and leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, was organised by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a powerful armed movement that has fought against Israel. A
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Middle EastEgyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday. The tombs were found in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp, though she had only reached the entrance gate “but never entered”, the ministry said. It said
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