Israeli Foreign Policy
“This is a very detailed peace vision. You cannot have a successful peace agreement without a successful economic plan. We are worried about the days, weeks, months and years after,” stated U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.
Enrollment from China in Israeli universities has skyrocketed, with thousands of students currently studying in the Jewish state.
Fatah calls on its official Facebook page for Palestinians to “escalate confrontations” across the country from June 24-26 in protest against the U.S.-sponsored summit in Manama.
It was an unprecedented move by the Persian Gulf country, which does not have diplomatic ties with the Jewish state and for the first time will allow Israeli journalists to report from its soil.
Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said “any meeting, whether in Bahrain or elsewhere and without the legitimate Palestinian endorsement, proves that Washington cannot and will not succeed on its own in achieving anything.”
A settlement deal reached between Egypt’s Petroleum Ministry and the Israel Electric Corporation reduces an original $1.7 billion fine.
“There is a long tradition of members of Congress saying dumb things; nevertheless, this comment belongs in the Hall of Fame. It’s not anti-Semitic. It’s too sloppy for that,” historian Gil Troy told JNS.
Also not in attendance: Russia, China and the Palestinian Authority.
“I think he said them elegantly, and I support his comments,” said U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.
“By invoking assistance to Israel, Mayor Buttigieg used one of the most long-standing bipartisan issues as a political instrument in his fight for the 2020 Democratic nomination,” said AJCongress president Jack Rosen.
It comes ahead of the Trump administration releasing the first part of its peace proposal between the Israelis and the Palestinians at an economic summit later this month in Bahrain.
“The ongoing decades-old long demonization and dehumanization of the Jewish state has been misunderstood as political criticism when in truth, it has been the new virulent form of anti-Semitism,” said Dan Diker, a fellow and senior project director at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
