Tag: dept

Congress had been looking at the PA's unilateral attempts at statehood, corruption, incitement of violence, and paying salaries terrorists in jail, which is why Congress put a hold on the payment.

"What I’ll say is that we reject the notion that the United States was the driving force behind this resolution. That’s just not true."

About 150 firefighters worked through the night Friday and into Saturday this week in Nataf, whose 400 residents were evacuated.

Al Jazeera claims that Yasser Arafat and Fidel Castro developed close diplomatic and personal ties, and Castro invited Arafat to Cuba "at least eight times," each time welcoming the PLO terrorist "like he was a head of state."

This will soon change, you know, but for now it was fascinating to watch...

The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.

The two-state solution does not stand a chance unless the leaders of both sides "are willing and able to make decisions" — and it’s highly unlikely that whomever is chosen to succeed Abbas would be able to make them.

On Friday, DOS Press Director Elizabeth Trudeau rebutted Netanyahu's accusation, although a careful reading of her attack on the PM reveals she didn't really answer his main argument.

Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) said that the State Dept. funding of the V15 campaign proves once again how timely and vital the new NGO transparency legislation has been.

The Department of Justice initially censored the transcripts of the terrorist Omar Mateen, perpetrator of the Orlando Massacre, deleting his pledge to ISIS.

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon appears to be making a difference in effectively representing Israel's case in the most hostile international arena outside Khartum, Sudan.

We redacted and edited the exchange to make it a tad more entertaining. But one can smell the danger hidden in the spokesman's evasions.

Does President Obama know that his Administration is launching an all out effort to kill or capture people in the name of Islam?