Diplomacy

President Donald Trump hosted United Nations Security Council ambassadors for lunch at the White House, took them to see remnants of rockets identified as originating in Iran, and urged them to fight “Iran’s destabilization activities” in the region, The New York Times reported Monday. During his time with the ambassadors, Trump brought...

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On the Friday edition of his show “Real Time,” television host Bill Maher defended United States President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Real Clear Politics reported on Saturday. The comedian’s defense of Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was out of character for Maher, who...

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In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Putin that Israel would not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria or making Lebanon into “factory for precision missiles” to attack Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Regarding Iranian efforts to establish a base of operations...

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Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis has accused Lebanese officials of allowing Iran to turn the country into “one big missile factory,” in a rare Arabic language opinion piece published Sunday by Lebanese news outlets. In the article which was published in Voice of Beirut and Israeli...

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Following President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold America’s contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), The New York Times reported that a number of aid organizations wrote a letter pleading for the administration to restore the funding. The letter called the decision to withhold the funds a “dangerous...

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Referring to a recent “hate-filled” speech given by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he declared the Oslo Accords dead, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council Thursday, “A speech that indulges in outrageous and discredited conspiracy theories is not the speech of...

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