Tag: Trump Administration

It's clear the Biden Administration is working hard to increase pressure on Israel to accept plans to establish a sovereign Palestinian state.

The decision to designate the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) reverses the 2021 revocation of that status by the Biden Administration.

Jared Kushner met with Jake Sullivan in January and encouraged him to push Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords.

Simply put, to remove all the sanctions, the Biden administration would have to reverse the terrorist designation of Iran which date back to the Carter administration.

Does anyone really require an apology from a crazy person who can't tell the difference between the Holocaust and the Trump administration?

"If Trump wins, there will be a flood of moderate Arab and Muslim countries that are very interested in taking part in the process that the Middle East is going through."

In February 2018, the Washington Post reported that US intelligence services claimed that officials in the UAE, Israel, Mexico and China had discussed ways to manipulate Kushner.

In the end, the authors say, the US must make up it mind whether it wants to stay in the Middle East and block hostile players such as Iran from tipping the balance against Western interests.

The US is talking to the PA via a group of businessmen from the PA.

The RSC is likely to face pushback from Mike Pompeo's State Department on calling for the cancellation of one sanctions waiver.

According to a leak from the White House, the settlers' refusing the Trump peace plan is tantamount to betraying a friend at the worst possible time.

Settler leaders ramp up objections to Trump peace plan as Yamina leader Naftali Bennett warns of 'existential disaster' of a Palestinian state.

We shouldn't scoff at a cure with a 65% chance to do away with a planetary plague, but if the promised cure is around the corner, why are the company's top executives selling their shares?

"In addition to deploying 62,000 military service members in direct support of fighting COVID-19 on frontlines across the globe, the Department of Defense is racing towards a vaccine."

Dermer is also campaigning hard for speeding up the annexation process because he is aware of the disagreements within the Trump administration over annexation.

As of Wednesday morning, the US has seen 82,387 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, with 27,284 deaths in New York State.

“This is an attack that goes against all the codes of war. Even from the Iranians we didn't expect something like this."

“This could be the last opportunity for a two-state solution,” O'Brien said.

We need to reassert our congressional authority,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). “The repeal of it is long overdue.”

One thing is already clear: no one in Israel is going to annex anything this coming week.

Chairman Abbas has denounced the Trump deal this week, calling it a "conspiracy deal." Hamas was less emotional, saying the plan is "not worth the ink it was written with."

Jared Kushner said that while the Trump administration clearly supports annexation, it also wants Israel to wait until after the upcoming Israeli election to move ahead with any annexation plans.

"If the Israelis apply Israeli law to the settlements and to the territory that you’ll see soon enough is allocated to Israel under the plan […] then we will recognize Israeli sovereignty."

Fars said it had received an email from its server company, which “explicitly said that the blockage is due to an order by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)."

"I think that the president is seeking to give Israel peace and security, the peace and security that it deserves."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted: "We firmly oppose this unjustified inquiry that unfairly targets Israel."

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, the lawmakers, led by Reps. Ilhan Omar, Raúl M. Grijalva and Barbara Lee, urge the administration to “conduct a sweeping review” of the sanctions campaign.

Pompeo obviously does not believe that Kerry’s move enjoyed bipartisan consensus – it, in fact, resulted in bipartisan condemnation.

The American peace team must decide now, probably before the end of the year, to run with it, come what may, or stash the deal until January 2021.

Naturally, should a Democrat be installed in the White House in the meantime, things could slow down considerably.