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| August 20, 2017
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Israel’s Economy Minister says attempts to depict Trump as antisemitic are pathetic

Economy Minister Eli Cohen: President Trump has hit back at those trying to boycott Israel economically, through U.N. envoy Nikki Haley, has changed the diplomatic attitude toward Israel, and in short says, President Donald Trump is “among the greatest friends Israel has had in a president.”

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen (Kulanu) came out in support of U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend, after the embattled president faced accusations of being racist and anti-Semitic in the aftermath of violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Israel’s Economy and Industry Minister, Eli Cohen. – Photo: Wikimedia נתן מור

“Efforts to portray Trump as anti-Semitic are pathetic,” Cohen said, adding that of all the U.S. Continue Reading »

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| August 3, 2017
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North Carolina now 22nd US state to forbid state from doing business with BDS supporters

 

In another major #BDSfail: The new legislation signed by North Carolina’s governor, not only prohibits the state’s agencies from engaging in business agreements with companies supporting BDS, it also mandates divestment from organizations/businesses that do.

By i24NEWS

 

The governor of the US state North Carolina, Roy Cooper signed legislation last Thursday making it illegal for the state to conduct business with companies associated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aganst Israel (BDS), the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported.

The action, making North Carolina the 22nd US state to outlaw state agencies from doing business with BDS affiliated organizations, received praise from the local Jewish federation of Raleigh- Cary as well as from the Israel Action Network, an initiative of the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2017
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US State Dept. Report Places Blame on Israel for Terrorism, Praised Autocrat Abbas, PA

While the lopsided report was based in part on work done during the Obama administration, much was added by department officials since Sec. of State Tillerson took charge.
– The ZOA lambasted Secretary Tillerson over the report, demanding his resignation.
– Illinois congressman slam State Department report for whitewashing, ignoring PA incitement.

By David Rosenberg

 

A new report published by the US State Department criticizing Israel and largely ignoring the Palestinian Authority’s financial support for terrorists sparked a bitter backlash, with some characterizing the document as “anti-Semitic”.

The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2016, published last Wednesday, laid the blame for violence against Israelis at the feet of the Jewish state, while praising the Palestinian Authority for rarely making “explicit calls for violence against Israelis”. Continue Reading »

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| July 24, 2017
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Trump dispatches Kushner and Greenblatt to Israel to calm Temple Mount tensions

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Envoy Greenblatt and senior advisor Jared Kushner should arrive in Israel Monday, hoping to relax tensions over Temple Mount’s newly established counter-terrorism security measures.
– WATCH Video

By Ynetnews

 

Jared Kusher—US President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor—is leading American efforts at deescalating the Temple Mount crisis surrounding the installation of metal detectors, according to a senior administration official on Sunday.

The official said that Kushner is working with Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan in an effort to solve the current calamity together with Trump emissary Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador David Friedman.

Trump emissary Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador David Friedman.

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| July 18, 2017
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President Trump shares Netanyahu’s concerns preventing Iranian presence in Syria

A White House official reports how President Trump’s administration shares in PM Netanyahu’s trepidation over a permanent Iranian presence in Syria and plans to prevent it from materializing.

By MICHAEL WILNER

 

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s concerns over Iran’s presence in southern Syria, and is working with Israel to prevent it, a White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

Netanyahu seemed to question that commitment over the weekend in Paris, outlining to reporters his opposition to a ceasefire agreement negotiated among Russia, Jordan and the US holding in southwestern Syria since July 11. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2017
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UPDATED: Jared Kushner arrives in Israel – First stop, condolence call at Malka family home

 

Accompanied by US Israel Envoy David Friedman, Trump’s special advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner arrives in Israel to restart fresh peace initiative between Israel and the Palestinians, but first goes to family of Hadas Malka who was murdered in Jerusalem terror attack, with a special message from President Trump.
– Clip of Netanyahu greeting Jared Kushner and entourage. 

Ynet

 

One of President Donald Trump’s top Middle East advisors and son-in-law Jared Kushner touched down in Israel on Wednesday morning before paying a visit to the family of 23-year-old MSG. Hadas Malka, who was murdered last Friday in a combined shooting and stabbing terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City.While Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2017
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Amb. Nikki Haley threatens US exit from UNHRC if Israel charged at Int’l Court

 

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is unhappy the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is taking steps outside the purview of its mandate in turning Israel to the International Court of Justice saying, “It’s actions like these that are forcing us to evaluate the United States’ future on the Human Rights Council.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The United States warned that it would leave the United Nations Human Rights Council if it turns to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for a broad advisory opinion on Israeli actions in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley issued a statement on the matter after learning that the UN might ask the International Court of Justice to comment on the failure of both Israelis and Palestinians to comply with humanitarian law. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2017
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The NYT ‘works with’ terrorists, endangering us, so they can embarrass President Trump

 

In their aim to embarrass President Trump, which in turn has generated more profits than the pre-Trump era, The New York Times has engaged in Fake News, time after time, and facilitates ‘leaks’ that may endanger us all, even at the benefit and protection of the terrorists.

By Phillip Pasmanick

 

President Trump has been complaining about ‘Fake News’ ever since he was nominated, and Fox news has been complaining how all the ‘Fake News’ media is consistently using leaked information from unknown sources. Although the great majority of the leaked ‘Fake News’ stories turn out in time to be untrue, occasionally leaked information is publicized harming the national interests of the U.S. Continue Reading »

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| June 11, 2017
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US, Israel to conduct advanced Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile test in Alaska

 

Kodiak testing site in Alaska to host an Israeli missile test of their new Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system, in response to Iranian & North Korean development & testings of their long-range ballistic missiles.

By Liz Ruskin

 

 

Israel is working on a better missile to counter the threat of an Iranian launch. But Israel lives in a crowded neighborhood, so the plan is to test the interceptor in Kodiak.

A missile launched in Alaska – Photo: Israel’s TV2 News

That’s the word from Adm. James Syring, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Syring told a congressional committee Wednesday the U.S. Continue Reading »

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| June 8, 2017
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U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv posts video of Nikki Haley visiting Gaza border, terror-tunnel

 

WATCH as US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, accompanied by Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon, takes an IDF helicopter ride to southern Israel, inspecting a terror tunnel built by Hamas, then visits a family on a border Kibbutz.

 

 

 

 

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| May 24, 2017
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Hamas: Trump’s comments on Jewish ties to Jerusalem, “racist,” “counterfeit history”

 

After the US President called the ties of the Jewish people to Jerusalem “ancient and eternal,” Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum referred to President Trump’s speech in Israel as “racist” and “counterfeit history” that was “installing the pillars of a new Israeli apartheid system, encouraging hatred of the Palestinian people.”
– Watch President Trump’s Speech with PM Netanyahu

By i24NEWS

 

A spokesperson for the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas on Tuesday, called a speech by US president Donald Trump in Israel earlier, “racist” and “counterfeit history” after saying Jerusalem had “ancient and eternal” Jewish ties.

Earlier on Tuesday, the US president said the “ties of the Jewish people to this Holy Land are ancient and eternal,” in a speech given at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| May 21, 2017
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WATCH: Israeli Air Force /USAF joint 2017 Juniper Falcon air exercise

 

While the new F-35i “Adir” stealth fighter didn’t participate in the drill, 30 IAF planes from the 69 Squadron which flies the F-15i Ram took part in the south of Israel out of the Air Force’s Uvda airbase near Eilat, flying alongside USAF F-15 jets.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

American and Israeli pilots successfully completed a two-week long joint drill in Israeli skies this past week with an emphasis on destroying mobile enemy targets, a senior Air Force official said on Sunday.

“It is important that in a changing and complex environment, especially due to the challenging and dynamic environment we find ourselves in, to know to to react quickly,” the senior officer told reporters, emphasizing that this sort of exercise is significant response to these challenges. Continue Reading »

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| May 19, 2017
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Israeli Minister protests US map of Israel in White House video, now deleted

 

Coincidence?
White House video displaying map of Israel omitting the West Bank and Golan Heights went missing from official White House YouTube account shortly after receiving angry response from Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, saying, ‘I hope this is just ignorance and not policy.’

By Moran Azulay

 

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) voiced her disapproval Friday of a map of Israel recently circulated by the White House ahead of President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit which failed to include the West Bank and the Golan Heights. “I hope this is just ignorance and not policy,” Shaked said.

Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

Speaking at an event in Ramat Gan, Shaked reminded her audience that her party was given a mandate to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Continue Reading »

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| May 16, 2017
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Trump Administration disassociates itself from diplomat’s Western Wall comments

 

White House issues prompt and decisive response: Remarks made earlier today by American diplomats in Israel that suggested the Western Wall is not part of Israel, “do not reflect the U.S. position, and certainly not the President’s position.”

By Nitsan Keidar

 

The White House on Monday disassociated itself from remarks by American diplomats, who told representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office that the Western Wall is not part of Israel but rather part of the “West Bank”.

“These comments, if true, were not authorized by the White House. They do not reflect the U.S. position, and certainly not the President’s position,” a White House spokesman told Haaretz. Continue Reading »

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| May 11, 2017
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Jerusalem asks Washington to nullify Obama’s sanctioned anti-Israel UNSC Resolution 2334

 

Israel’s Foreign Ministry seeks to garner support for abating undue UN criticism and exaggerated focus on Israel by slashing their budget and manpower resources dedicated to just anti-Israel scrutiny, as well as the disproportionate number of Security Council resolutions continuously presented against Israel (at the behest of the Palestinians).

By Itamar Eichner

 

The Israeli Foreign Ministry appealed this week to US Envoy to the UN Nikki Haley to nullify Security Council Resolution 2334 which calls for an end to settlement construction while simultaneously declaring them illegal, both in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

The issue was just one in a series of requests made to Haley, in an effort to garner American support in implementing a number of changes vis-a-vis the world body’s treatment of Israel. Continue Reading »

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