Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco are set to join Saudi Arabia and several Gulf States at a U.S.-sponsored peace conference in Bahrain on June 25-26, during which the United States is set to announce the economic aspects of its long-awaited peace plan. A senior U.S. official confirmed Tuesday that the White...

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The White House said on Tuesday that the United States is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The decision will bring harsh sanctions against the world’s oldest Islamist movement, which has more than a million members across the Middle East. “The President has consulted with...

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March 26, 2019 marks the fourth decade since the signing of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty. It is a bittersweet anniversary. Relations between Israel and Egypt have long been described as a “cold peace” with little person-to-person contact – so different from the euphoria of the early Eighties when Israelis...

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The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt rejected on March 4 a clause in a statement by the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (APU), which called for a stop to normalization with Israel, laying bare a growing divide between Arab governments and individual parliamentarians in their approach to the Jewish State....

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The formation of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum marks the first time Israel has been accepted into a regional alliance with Arab nations, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The creation of the forum — consisting of Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and the Palestinians — was announced earlier this...

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Israel, Egypt and five other governments have announced the formation of a regional organization devoted to the development of natural gas resources in Cairo, Reuters reported on Monday. A statement from Egypt’s petroleum minister stated the governments would “create a regional gas market that serves the interests of its members by...

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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed in a speech in Cairo on Thursday that the Trump administration will work with allies to “expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria, the Times of Israel reported. “We strongly support Israel’s efforts to stop Tehran from turning Syria into the next...

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In a television interview with CBS’s flagship program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the intimate security cooperation with Israel in the Sinai Peninsula against jihadist forces, The Jerusalem Post reported. When the interviewer asked Sisi whether the cooperation was the “deepest and closest” that...

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The leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia are reportedly working together to convince Arab states to initiate a fresh start with Israel and develop economic relations with the Jewish State in accordance with the yet-to-be released peace plan of the Trump administration, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. According to a...

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The incoming ambassadors of Jordan and Egypt both reaffirmed their countries’ commitment to sustainable peace with Israel in a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on Thursday, The Times of Israel reported. Rivlin, who greeted the men in Arabic, accepted letters of credence from Ghassan Majali of Jordan...

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