by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2021 The 12-year consecutive term of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister likely came to an end last week when Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid and Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett announced that they had secured an agreement to form Israel’s next government. “According to Lapid, Bennett and their […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 25, 2021 During a highly anticipated meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly rebuked Team Biden’s Iran policy. “We discussed many regional issues, but none is greater than Iran. And I can tell you that I hope that the United […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 16, 2021 Late on Friday evening, the Israel Defense Forces announced without evidence that a ground offensive was underway in the Gaza Strip. Hamas operatives accustomed to taking shelter in civilian facilities took the bait and elite operatives scurried to its network of tunnels and into the direct path of of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2020 President Trump’s decision to remove Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism helped pave the way for Sudan to reach a deal on the normalization of relations with Israel. The deal, announced by Trump on Friday, makes Sudan the third Arab country to normalize ties with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2020 Leaders from Israel, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain gathered with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to sign the Abraham Accords, establishing full, normalized relations between Israel and the two Gulf Arab states. The historic deal brokered by Trump is the first time Arab nations […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump brokered a historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that will lead to a full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations, the White House announced on Thursday. The agreement was sealed in a phone call on Thursday between […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2020 The Arab League has scheduled an urgent conference to forge a plan to confront Israel’s plans to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria. The meeting, scheduled for April 30 at the request of the Palestinian Authority, will bring together Arab foreign ministers via video conference, rather than […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 28, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday which called for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. The so-called “Deal of the Century”, billed as the most-detailed such Mideast peace plan ever, would eventually double the Palestinians’ […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump said he will announce his Middle East peace plan, dubbed the “Deal of the Century,” at a White House meeting next week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz. “It’s a great plan. It’s a plan that really would […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2019 The Trump administration has reversed a decades-old policy which had declared Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria illegal. In announcing the reversal of the policies of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Nov. 18 said: “After carefully studying all sides of the legal […]