Prime Minister backtracks on promise of social, financial help for communities in Har Hevron after terror attacks out of fear of US response. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has withdrawn the government’s plan to transfer 40 million shekels ($10.4 million US) to Har Hevron communities. The topic has also been completely removed from the next Cabinet […]
Bipartisan inquiry determines resources that ended up in V15’s hands not illegal, but State Department chided for seeking to influence internal politics of ally The US government supported a group that tried to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year to the tune of nearly $350,000, or NIS 1.3 million, a Senate inquiry published Tuesday […]
(JTA) — Spanish Jews condemned a left-wing party’s use of anti-Semitic imagery meant to protest President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to the country. The Madrid branch of Izquerda Unida, or United Left, on Thursday tweeted the cartoon image, which depicts a thick-lipped Obama standing behind a wall amid explosions while hugging a Jew with side curls, a kippah emblazoned […]
‘Building homes in Maale Adumim isn’t preventing peace,’ says Netanyahu during Africa trip. By David Rosenberg Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explicitly rejected demands by the Obama administration that Israel cease all construction over the Green Line, saying that the US position on Judea and Samaria was “not acceptable”. Speaking at a press conference in Rwanda […]
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on President Barack Obama on Friday to “recognize and condemn” each terror attack committed against Israel, a mere few hours after he issued a strong statement lamenting Thursday’s slaughter of a 13-year-old Israeli girl. In a statement published on Facebook, Trump condemned Friday’s drive-by shooting attack which killed […]
‘US and Israel face exactly the same threat’, claims ‘America’s leadership directly affects every Israeli’. Americans and Israelis face “exactly the same” threat from radical Islam, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said on Sunday, arguing that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump would do much more for American security – and Israel – than Barack Obama. […]
Despite claims by Barack Obama that his support for Israel has been greater than that of all presidents throughout American history, a possible White House decision that would undermine Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME) — highlights his hypocrisy, a prominent foreign policy expert told The Algemeiner on Thursday. Elliott Abrams — senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies […]
Negotiations over military aid package ongoing in Washington over level, whether part can be spent in Israel. Key voices inside the government are arguing it is in Israel’s interests to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to govern US military aid for the next decade while President Barack Obama is in office, as a way of locking […]
Op-ed: After Orlando, we can spend the next few weeks venting our fears and frustrations. Or we can get serious about thwarting death cult extremism I don’t have a panacea to prevent terrorism, but amid all the hand-wringing and mud-slinging in the wake of Sunday’s massacre in Orlando, what’s striking — and unforgivable — is […]
See no evil: Obama refuses to utter ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ amid 800% terror spike By Madison Gesiotto From the 2009 Fort Hood shooting to the 2015 San Bernardino massacre and the recent Brussels bombings, radical Islamic terrorists have been wreaking havoc and destroying lives worldwide. In just the last five years of the Obama administration, […]
