Israeli Foreign Policy
Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to boost ties between Arab nations and the Jewish state, it included talk of a nonaggression pact.
Were such a move to take place, it could be a significant step in forging closer ties between Arab countries and Israel.
Terrorist group says its fighters were responsible for the attack on “the natural gas line linking the Jews and the apostate Egyptian government.”
Senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner will present the U.S. administration’s peace plan to the U.N. Security Council in New York, just days before Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to visit the United Nations.
Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud al-Habbash calls on Islamic preachers to use Friday sermons to attack U.S. peace plan • Says martyrdom fighting plan is preferable to accepting it.
It banned the import of vegetables, fruits, soft drinks and water from Israel into the Palestinian territories.
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.”
“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.
“Trump doesn’t know first thing” about own plan, which is “Netanyahu’s ideas” put to paper, says P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas • Arab League announces rejection of U.S. peace proposal.
Tehran files complaint over Saudi Arabia refusal to issue visas to Iranian delegation • Iran: No bilateral talks with US • Leaked recording shows Tehran knew immediately of downed Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752.
Suspected Islamist terrorists blew up a natural-gas pipeline west of el-Arish, causing a fire but no casualties.