Africa
Were such a move to take place, it could be a significant step in forging closer ties between Arab countries and Israel.
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat calls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Uganda with Sudanese leader Abdel-Fattah Burhan to discuss normalization a “blatant departure from the Arab Peace Initiative.”
A total of 36 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2019, compared to 62 the previous year.
“If a friend says, ‘I want your embassy here, rather than there,’ I don’t see why it wouldn’t be,” said Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.
The announcement is a milestone for Israel and its efforts to expand diplomatic relations in Africa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni; there is speculation he could also talk with other African leaders during his one-day visit.
It went from being a hybrid terror organization that controls its own territory to a classical decentralized terror network. Yet the ISIS branch in Sinai remains one of the most effective in the world.
Turkish forces will support the Tripoli-based government against the forces led by Gen. Khalifa Haftar in the east.
“Turkey sees that its old adversaries, Greece and Cyprus, and its new adversaries, Israel and Egypt, are forming a maritime axis that is blocking [it],” Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told JNS.
Israel opposes the deal, though it’s unlikely to lead to conflict with Turkey • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Greece to finalize plans for a pipeline to export natural gas to Italy.
In Eastern Europe, the revival of Jewish life is on full display.
“We opened the festival with a concert that is entirely a message of peace and dialogue achieved through music,” said Jacob Ben Simon, the orchestra’s general manager.
