By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — President Trump’s upcoming visit to Israel and Palestine—during which he hopes to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process—will go nowhere unless he fully understands the complexity of the conflict and why previous attempts by successive American administrations to negotiate a peace deal have failed. Recently, he stated that “I want […]
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USABy David Anderson, J.D. NEW YORK — The 15 year civil war in Lebanon last century can teach us about the future of the neighboring Syrian mess: they do look alike. Like Washington state-sized Syria, Connecticut-sized Lebanon was a French colony. Pre-WW2 manners dictated the British and French politely divide this “Levant” (the “L” in
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International, Middle East, USAIn historic first, Yuli Edelstein will return to Moscow to speak at the legislature and visit the jail where he was held as a Prisoner of Zion By Raoul Wootliff Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein on May 19 announces that elections for presidency will take place on June 10. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) In May 1987,
An Israeli minister Tuesday called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, likening his regime to the Nazis during World War II. Yoav Galant, Israel’s housing minister, accused the Syrian regime of gassing its own people, burning their bodies and, ultimately, committing crimes against humanity not seen since Adolf Hitler’s party wiped out six
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Middle EastPressure is mounting inside Washington on President Donald Trump not to follow through on his campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy in Israel to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem and recognize the city as the united capital of the Jewish state. Just days before his planned May 22nd visit to Israel, conflicting reports have
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Middle East, USAUS Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Tuesday morning, a day after Friedman arrived in Israel to begin his service as ambassador. President Rivlin received Friedman”s credentials, marking the formal beginning of Friedman”s ambassadorship to the Jewish state. Two other new ambassadors, representing Spain and Thailand, were also received by
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Middle East, USAAn Israeli-Arab teenager seeking to convert to Judaism and enlist in the IDF was freed recently from captivity, after police received a tip that the youth had been locked up by his family. According to NRG, police found a 19-year old Israeli-Arab man being held against his will in his family”s home in the Arab-Israeli
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Middle EastAdmitting immigrants and refugees from the Middle East has become a huge flashpoint in US policy with the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict their entry to the US. So it’s interesting to note that back in the 19th century, one of the first Arab Muslim immigrants to the US — potentially the first-ever Syrian immigrant
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Middle East, USAArthur Sulzberger Jr. sends personal letter to subscribers who canceled over new hire By JTA Bret Stephens at alumni weekend at the University of Chicago, June 7, 2014. (Jason Smith via JTA) The publisher of The New York Times sent a personal letter to subscribers who canceled over the newspaper’s hiring of conservative columnist Bret
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Middle East, USAU.S. intelligence officials reportedly warned their Israeli counterparts to exert caution in sharing top secret information with Donald Trump’s administration for fear of it being passed to Russia and then to Moscow’s ally and Israel’s arch-enemy, Iran. Discussions between U.S. and Israeli security services prior to Trump’s inauguration on January 20 gave rise to concerns
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sit down face to face with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday — and it’s likely to be awkward. The White House meeting comes a week after Trump signed off on a plan vehemently opposed by Turkey, which authorizes directly arming Syrian Kurds in the fight to
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Syria’s government on Monday of hanging hundreds of political opponents and other prisoners and burning their bodies at a military prison near Damascus, part of what the State Department called an egregious pattern of atrocities by Syrian President Bashar Assad. The State Department said the Syrian authorities may be
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Middle East, USAAmerican Jewish casino mogul and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly furious over the Trump administration”s delays in fulfilling the president”s campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Adelson, a prominent GOP donor who backed President Trump”s 2016 campaign to the tune of $25 million, was angered by Secretary of State
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Middle East, USAIn first in 109 years, new group of fritillary found hovering over slopes at Hermon ski resort By Times of Israel staff The Acentria’s fritillary (Melitaea acentria) is a new butterfly species discovered in Israel on the Hermon ski resort. (Dr. Vladimir Lukhtanov/Pensoft Publishers for Press Release Use Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) For
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