The high-profile U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which President Donald Trump signed during his recent visit to Riyadh and is awaiting congressional approval, raised alarms in Jerusalem due to what officials describe as the potential diminishment of Israel’s military edge over regional foes. The stability of Middle Eastern governments has been as precarious as ever since the outbreak of Arab uprisings in 2011, meaning that advanced military equipment sold to states such as Saudi Arabia could ultimately end up in the hands of Islamist regimes or terrorist groups in the event of a government collapse. The $110 billion deal…
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Israel has prepared a plan for a partial evacuation of communities near its border with Lebanon should growing tension with terror group Hezbollah erupt into a military conflict, a senior Israeli military official stated. Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a declared foe of Israel, supposedly possesses over 100,000 rockets, some of which have ranges long enough to hit anywhere within the country. However, the official said that 90 percent of the rockets are short-range, putting Israeli communities close to the Israel-Lebanon border in the most danger. About 1.4 million of Israel’s residents live in the northern region, which shares borders with both Lebanon…
Israeli right-wingers got what they saw as a major endorsement for their policies when US President Donald Trump failed to publicly mention a Palestinian state even one time during his two-day visit. That stands in sharp contrast to Barack Obama, who focused heavily on the Arabs’ desired (initial) outcome of the peace process. Already when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington back in February, Trump made clear that he wasn’t married to the two-state solution, and would be giving Israel far more leeway than previous presidents when it comes to outlining the parameters of a viable and lasting peace deal.…
Palestinian Arabs probably celebrated the victory of Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election. After all, his opponent, Marine Le Pen, made abundantly clear her frustration with, if not outright disdain for, the Islamic world. But there was another aspect to the election for Palestinians, who have in recent years tried to get France to take a central role in the Middle East peace process, confident that the liberal European power would be among the first to openly embrace a Palestinian state. Surely, many thought, Macron’s liberal credentials meant he jump at the opportunity to help birth “Palestine.” However, shortly before…
Israel President Reuven Rivlin said during a meeting with church leaders in Jerusalem that Christians and Jews are “brothers.” “I say to you here, our Christian brothers of Jerusalem, our thoughts are with you at this difficult time,” stated Rivlin. “We have all seen the pictures from Syria; I visited some of the injured being treated in Israeli hospitals. What has happened there to the Christian community – and to the whole country – is a stain on all of humanity.” Rivlin went on to note that the Jewish people “know better than any what it means to pray in…
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, in a televised speech Thursday warned that any future conflict with Israel could be waged inside of Israeli territory. Israel “is scared and worried of any future confrontation and knows that it could be inside the occupied Palestinian territories,” Nasrallah said, Reuters reported. “There will be no place that is out of reach of the rockets of the resistance or the boots of the resistance fighters,” he added. Since Israel’s last conflict with Hezbollah in 2006, Israeli leaders have repeatedly warned of the terror group’s growing rocket and missile arsenal as…
Israeli media is reporting that US President Donald Trump will extend the executive order to postpone moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem when it comes up for renewal. This is following campaign promises and post-inauguration vows by Trump to return the US Embassy to the Israeli capital, a move that would bolster Israel’s claims to the entirety of Jerusalem. According to unnamed US sources, it is the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that is actually holding up the move. They say Netanyahu doesn’t want to deal with the expected diplomatic blowback. At the same time, local…
It is truly remarkable what the IDF continues to do for the nation of Israel. This video is a beautiful representation of just that. Let us always keep these brave men and women in our prayers.
US President Donald Trump is expected to visit Israel later this month, and many believe he’s going to use the occasion to drop a couple of diplomatic bombshells. First, according to Israel’s Yediot Ahronot daily, Trump will renege on his election promise to move the US embassy back to Jerusalem. Many speculate that it is, in fact, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government that are blocking the move, which Trump would make if the matter were entirely up to him. But, the second bombshell should assuage some of Israelis’ disappointment over the first. Yediot further reports that Trump plans to…
North Korea is determined to beat President Trump and the US, and that means beating America’s allies, too. At the top of that list for the North Koreans are two countries: Japan and Israel. Observers will remember that when Israel destroyed Syria’s nascent nuclear program, it was quickly discovered that North Korea had provided the know-how and hardware to the defiant Arab dictatorship. It is also known that North Korea is in league with some of the Middle East’s more unsavory players, all of which want to see Israeli annihilated. As such, few Israelis tears would be shed if Trump…