Middle East

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’m among those who believe that the Jewish settlements on the West Bank constitute a great, perhaps the greatest, danger to Israel. I also believe that accommodation could be made to enable a Palestinian state to have its capital in parts of the city it may call Jerusalem. Yet,

Jason Greenblatt, who with David Friedman made up Israel Advisory Committee, to handle diplomatic talks, with focus on Israeli-Palestinian conflict By Times of Israel staff Jason Dov Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s top real estate lawyer and an Orthodox Jew, is one of three members on the Republican nominee’s Israel Advisory Committee. (JTA/Uriel Heilman) President-elect Donald Trump

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration portrayed its decision to allow the United Nations to condemn Israeli settlement-building as a way to finally and emphatically demand a stop to the activity. But the move may backfire by hardening positions, both in the right-wing Israeli government and in the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump has already signaled his

In what many see as a final defiant diplomatic move, US President Barack Obama has allowed a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, a move highlighting the stark deterioration of US-Israeli relations The US abstained from a UN Security Council vote on Friday allowing all remaining 15 members of the Council to pass the first UN

By Sean Savage/JNS.org UNITED NATIONS, nEW yoRK — With the U.S. abstaining from Friday’s vote, rather than exercising its veto power, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction beyond the 1967 lines. The resolution was put forward Friday by four non-permanent Security Council members—New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal—just a

The delay, perhaps indefinitely, of the UN Security Council vote on an Egyptian-sponsored resolution ordering Israel to cease all “settlement activity” does not mean that the struggle against anti-Israel resolutions at the UN intended to harm Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria is finished, according to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon. “We are