Middle East
Iraq announces week-long curfew, stops flights from Baghdad Airport; Egypt has suspended all flights until end of month.
“The United States will not tolerate attacks against our people, our interests, or our allies,” said U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
“I’m not going to take any option off the table right now, but we are focused on the group—groups that we believe perpetrated this in Iraq,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
Missile barrage on military base north of Baghdad wounds 12 • Iranian proxy group believed to be responsible.
The trial, which will last for months, is enraging Hamas members and supporters all over the world and illustrates the depth of the rift between Gaza and Riyadh.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said the international reaction to the vision, officially called “Peace to Prosperity,” has been overall positive, despite the Palestinian rejection of it.
Citing Israeli pledges to extend sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, as well as Israeli “violations” on the Temple Mount, relations between the two countries seem at their lowest point since 1994.
“I will continue building relationships between Israel and its neighbors in the region to work on what once seemed impossible—building together an economic bridge of peace,” said former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.
Iraqi analyst Muhammad Sadeq Al-Hashemi: Goal of coronavirus is to reduce the world population; Rothschilds paid for the annihilation of Native Americans and Scots.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether the Center for Middle East Studies at the college has misused federal dollars.
Over the years, public-opinion polls demonstrate that Israeli-Arabs reject trading in their current passports for Palestinian ones.
“The joint mapping process is a major mission, and it will be completed as rapidly as possible,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
