Tag: Jordan

Partly driving the shift “is the weakness the United States is showing towards Iran in its efforts to reduce its presence in the Middle East and bolster its position in the Far East against the growing Chinese challenge,” said Bar-Ilan Professor Hillel Frisch, a Middle East expert at the BESA Center.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and King Abdullah reportedly met in secret last week in Amman, prior to the Jordanian monarch’s scheduled visit the White House on July 19.

Perhaps PM Bennett should condition selling the thirsty Jordanian more water on Jordan leasing Israel's hungry farmers their lands.

The shipment included a number of trucks with medical equipment destined for the Jordanian hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The police and Shin Bet arrested dozens of suspects on Sunday that are believed to be involved in rioting and attacks.

Everyone wants to get into Israel these days.

Arabs have been repeatedly attacking the Jewish residents of the neighborhood.

The former crown prince, who was placed under house arrest following reports of a coup attempt, signed the letter after meeting with Prince Hassan, the king’s uncle, and other princes.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, 85, was slated to fly to Germany.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi clarified to parliament: “The agreement does not authorize American forces to carry out combat actions within the kingdom.”

Arab activists also claim that some of the Covid-19 vaccines have been sold on the black market for as much as NIS 500 per dose.

Hamas stands to take control if any elections are held in the Palestinian Authority.

Condemning Jerusalem for having allowed Jews to pray on the holy site during Tisha B’Av, Amman calls it a “place of worship for Muslims only.”

The ruling was due to the movement “failing to rectify its legal status under Jordanian law,” official says.

Efforts are also underway to push for the extradition of Ahlam Tamimi, the mastermind behind 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 people, including two Americans.

Egypt's absence is a message to Ramallah as to how much they actually care if Israel applies Israeli law over Jewish communities.

The message seems to be that while Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on Israeli sovereignty, it won't be a roadblock to building relations with Israel.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred at a 10 km depth in the Red Sea, 222 km south-west of Eilat.

“The United States has multiple options and different types of leverage to secure Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi’s extradition."

The king ordered the royal court not to set a date for a meeting with Gantz, who requested a coordination meeting to negotiate Israeli coordination of the sovereignty plan with Jordan.

Remarkably, the op-ed is not advocating the establishment of a Palestinian State, rather it speaks of negotiations to reduce violence.

Among the 3,500-plus photographers participating in the Israeli-initiated challenge were photographers from the Palestinian Authority, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Jordan needs help from Saudi Arabia in order to block the infringement of Turkey on its territory as sole caretaker of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.

"The Emiratis could have sent it through another airport," said one response.

A second Jordanian smuggler managed to get back to Jordan.

The cooperation between the PA security forces and Israel will continue, because it serves the interests of the PLO government in Ramallah.

"If Israel really annexed the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan."

The letter noted that “up until the Tamimi case and its Israeli victims, Jordan had extradited terrorists to the United States multiple times.”

However, as the ADL noted, neither social networking site bothered to ever remove Tamimi on their own volition.

Over the past week there was an upsurge in online global anti-Semitism tying Israel and Jews to the Coronavirus.