Like the foreign policy establishment he represented, Rex Tillerson refused to abandon the false belief that nothing can be done without PLO approval.
byCaroline Glick15 Mar 2018, 11:22 PM PDT0
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, asserted that Riyadh will pursue nuclear weapons development if Iran possesses a nuclear bomb and reiterated his claim that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is “very much like Hitler” in a CBS interview to air on Sunday.
byFrances Martel15 Mar 2018, 1:02 PM PDT0
The unelected European Commission is set to approve an additional three billion euros in funding for Turkey, the second part of a deal whereby they make efforts to stem the flow of migrants from the Middle East.
byLiam Deacon15 Mar 2018, 11:16 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the subsequent transfer of his country’s embassy there constituted “shock therapy” against Palestinian rejectionism, which is the real obstacle to peace, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said at a Senate event on Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan15 Mar 2018, 8:39 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — The working assumption within the Palestinian Authority is that Palestinian intelligence commander Majed Faraj and not PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was the main target of the assassination attempt on Tuesday morning in the Gaza Strip, a PA official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked15 Mar 2018, 8:37 AM PDT0
Former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has joined Palestinian performers Trio Joubran to record a song attacking Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embasssy from Tel Aviv accordingly.
bySimon Kent15 Mar 2018, 7:05 AM PDT0
The Knesset passed the state’s budget for 2019 in the early hours of Thursday, closing out the parliament’s winter term just over a day after the coalition managed to solve a crisis that nearly saw the government fall and new elections called.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 4:03 AM PDT0
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday signed a $742 million (600 million euro) deal with Russian state-owned energy firm Zarubezhneft to boost production at two oil fields in the country’s west.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 3:25 AM PDT0
Israel Police have asked the attorney general for permission to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and possibly also their son Yair before the Passover holiday, which begins on March 30, in connection with the Bezeq corruption probe.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 2:40 AM PDT0
HAMMURIYEH, Syria — Syrian regime forces broke into a key town in the beleaguered rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta late Wednesday amid heavy bombardment, a monitor said.
byBreitbart Jerusalem15 Mar 2018, 2:11 AM PDT0
The Democratic Party is following Britain’s Labour party down the antisemitic rabbit hole with its refusal to oppose Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
byCaroline Glick14 Mar 2018, 6:04 PM PDT0
NEW YORK — Victoria Nuland, a senior official in John Kerry’s State Department, gave the green light for the FBI to first meet with former British spy Christopher Steele regarding his infamous, largely discredited dossier alleging wild claims about Donald Trump and Russia, according to a book released this week.
byAaron Klein14 Mar 2018, 5:15 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will move ahead with projects in the Gaza Strip with or without the Palestinian Authority if its chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to boycott the U.S., senior administration officials said Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 3:19 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – Officials from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees will meet in Rome with world powers on Thursday in an urgent attempt to alleviate the crisis it faces after the U.S. withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in funding earlier this year.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 8:04 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – Israel will win this year’s Eurovision song contest with its entry, “Toy” sung by Netta Barzilai, bookies are predicting.
byDeborah Danan14 Mar 2018, 8:01 AM PDT0
NEW YORK — New details presented in an extensive New Yorker magazine profile of former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the largely discredited anti-Trump dossier, raise immediate questions about a key representation inside the FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page.
byAaron Klein14 Mar 2018, 7:57 AM PDT0
WASHINGTON, DC — The Russian- and Iranian-assisted regime of Bashar al-Assad is winning the civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands in Syria since 2011, suggested the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, stressing that toppling the dictator is not part of the American mission in the conflict-ridden country.
byEdwin Mora14 Mar 2018, 7:55 AM PDT0
Egypt wants its citizens to report on the news media. Escalating a pre-election crackdown on independent or critical reporting, Egyptian authorities have published a list of telephone numbers for citizens to alert them to reports they view as undermining security or spreading false news.
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 3:46 AM PDT0
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan is nearly finished and the White House intends to present to the proposal soon, The New York Times reported Sunday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 2:39 AM PDT0
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday strongly condemned the explosion that targeted the convoy of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in the northern Gaza Strip, calling it a “murderous terror attack.”
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 2:22 AM PDT0
The Israeli military hosted US Marines this week for an urban combat drill in a mock-up of a generic Middle East village, sharing know-how and signaling the allies’ shared interests as their leaders close ranks on a host of regional issues.
byBreitbart Jerusalem14 Mar 2018, 1:55 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — The Islamic State has released photos over the encrypted Telegram forum purpoting to be from the areas under its control in Syria showing members of the IS-affiliated Khaed Bin Waleed militia in the Yarmouk region of the Golan, the triangular border zone between Syria, Jordan and Israel.
byAli Waked13 Mar 2018, 10:24 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV — Hamas has demanded that other jihadist Palestinian organizations prevent any attempts to carry out attacks in the border area with Israel in order to avoid harming the chances of leading thousands of Palestinians to the border fence in a protest planned as part of events marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding, a senior official in one of the jihadist Palestinian organizations told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked13 Mar 2018, 10:23 PM PDT0
WASHINGTON – Israeli national security officials sat around the same table on Tuesday morning with their counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, discussing a dire humanitarian situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 9:20 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – New polls released Monday showed that were elections held today the Likud party would remain in power with the same amount of seats, centrist Yesh Atid would come in second and main opposition party the Zionist Union would lose around half its seats.
byDeborah Danan13 Mar 2018, 8:44 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – The so-called Israeli coalition crisis has lawmakers on the fence about whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should call early elections or not amid the threat of an indictment and contention over a draft bill that has parties in the coalition pitted against each other.
byDeborah Danan13 Mar 2018, 8:41 AM PDT0
NEW YORK — A third former official from John Kerry’s State Department has been named in recent reports for alleged involvement in circulating the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier.
byAaron Klein13 Mar 2018, 8:33 AM PDT0
For months, Cape Town, a city of four million people, has been facing the doomsday scenario of taps running dry. The city’s Theewaterskloof Dam, a water reservoir which once supplied the city 50 percent of its supply, looks more like a desert area.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 3:37 AM PDT0
BERLIN, Germany — A former Nazi SS guard dubbed the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” has died at the age of 96, nearly three years after his conviction for being an accessory to murder, German media said Monday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 2:52 AM PDT0
US President Donald Trump is expected to present his peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, The New York Times reported Monday, citing three Trump administration officials.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 2:28 AM PDT0
JABALIYA, Gaza Strip — An explosion has struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister during a rare visit to Gaza, sparking fears of an assassination attempt.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 2:11 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM – Israel was built on the bodies of the Palestinian children it murdered, the host of a program recently aired on official Palestinian Authority TV declared, a claim that was echoed by a senior Palestinian official who was interviewed on the show and charged the Jewish state with the “summary executions” of children.
byBreitbart Jerusalem13 Mar 2018, 1:28 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is said to have told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that he would not show zero flexibility in renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal with European nations.
byDeborah Danan12 Mar 2018, 12:34 PM PDT0
TEL AVIV – American Jewish groups over the weekend slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insinuation that Jews may have meddled with the 2016 presidential election, comparing his remarks to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
byDeborah Danan12 Mar 2018, 12:33 PM PDT0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian government has deemed members of religious minorities, such as Christians and Jews, “enemies of the state,” an analyst tells Breitbart News, echoing the U.S. State Department.
byEdwin Mora12 Mar 2018, 10:52 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — A verbal conflict erupted during a television program between Egyptian member of Parliament Gada Ajami and Egyptian Salafist cleric Waleed Ismail over a bill presented to the Egyptian Parliament that would make it illegal for a man to marry a second woman without the knowledge of his first wife.
byAli Waked12 Mar 2018, 7:38 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV — Hamas is furious over the poor quality of goods entering the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, a source in the terrorist organization told Breitbart Jerusalem.
byAli Waked12 Mar 2018, 7:38 AM PDT0
NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, the Obama State Department official who acknowledged regularly interfacing and exchanging information with the author of the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier, signed disclosure forms for his former firm to represent a Russian billionaire
byAaron Klein12 Mar 2018, 7:37 AM PDT0
It is time for Israel to formally abandon the so-called two-state solution as well as the concept of a Palestinian state and instead push for the complete Israeli annexation of the West Bank and retaking of the Gaza Strip, Israeli
byAaron Klein12 Mar 2018, 6:46 AM PDT0
An unnamed British-Iranian national has been sentenced to six years in prison on spying charges, the official news agency of Iran’s judiciary reported Sunday, the latest dual national convicted in the country.
byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 4:26 AM PDT0
The IDF launched a large-scale General Staff exercise on Sunday to drill emergency preparedness in all of the military’s commands.
byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 3:39 AM PDT0
A senior Iranian commander has warned Israel and the United States that it cannot afford the costs of a confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 3:07 AM PDT0
Turkish warplanes destroyed at least 18 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq over the weekend, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Sunday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 2:39 AM PDT0
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told cabinet ministers on Sunday that there is still no “concrete” US peace plan.
byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 2:21 AM PDT0
Top Israeli and Saudi Arabian officials reportedly held a series of secret meetings in Cairo last week, ahead of US President Donald Trump’s expected unveiling of his long-awaited Middle East peace plan.
byBreitbart Jerusalem12 Mar 2018, 1:35 AM PDT0
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