Diplomacy

In his meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump expressed hope that his administration could achieve “peace between Israel and the Palestinians,” even as the Palestinian Authority considers making another unity deal with terrorist group Hamas. Trump said that his administration would give the project of...

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On January 12, 2016, sailors from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy captured ten United States Navy personnel who were said to have strayed into Iranian waters. Sen. John McCain (R – Ariz.), a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee and himself a former prisoner of war, issued...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued his tour of South America with visits to Colombia and Mexico. Netanyahu met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota and they discussed deepening bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture, water technology, innovation and cyber defense. Netanyahu said that under the Colombian President’s...

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The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would once again waive sanctions against Iran’s banking and oil industries in line with the 2015 nuclear deal, but signaled that it would take a tougher stance towards enforcing the deal’s implementation. The announcement of the waiver came hours after the United...

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On Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) withdrew its attempt to gain full membership in the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization (UNTWO) due to American pressure. The chairman of the UN’s tourism body announced during a meeting in Chengdu that UNTWO will postpone a vote on accepting the PA as a...

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to several Latin American countries this week could serve as a platform to promote regional cooperation against Iran’s involvement in global terrorism and Hezbollah’s activities in the region, Emanuele Ottolenghi and Michaela Frai wrote in The Jerusalem Post. Latin America’s permissive environment for...

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