Diplomacy

The U.S. and Israel agreed to a joint strategic work plan to counter Iranian activity in the Middle East during a secret meeting between senior officials at the White House two weeks ago, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. The plan reportedly calls for coordinated action to thwart Tehran’s nuclear...

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Guatemala plans to relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced on his official Facebook account on Sunday, making it the first country to mirror U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision from December 6. Morales said he had informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and instructed Guatemala’s...

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A number of countries supporting Thursday’s United Nations General Assembly vote against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital have “questionable records of their own,” Jake Tapper said in a commentary during his show The Lead on CNN. Tapper singled out critics such as Venezuela, Syria, Yemen and North...

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A non-binding resolution introduced in the United Nations General Assembly rejecting President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as “null and void” passed but with “significantly lower” support than the Palestinians had hoped for, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Every nation deserves to choose its capital or where...

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In their statements suggesting that nations voting against the United States and its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the United Nations today could lose their foreign aid, President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley are providing a “moment of clarity” in...

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In the wake of a report earlier this week that the Obama administration ended an investigation into Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking operations in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a former United States Treasury Department official outlined steps that the Trump administration could take to effectively combat...

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