Middle East
After identifying Iran as the “origin” of threats against Americans in Iraq, Pompeo explained, “Our intelligence in this regard is solid. We can see the hand of the Ayatollah and his henchmen supporting these attacks on the United States.”
“It could become a state, as the president said, but that requires diplomatic negotiations with Israel and others,” said U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton.
“I like the two-state solution,” Trump said to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “That’s what I think works best. I don’t even have to speak to anybody; that’s my feeling.”
“As Israelis in practice are not allowed to enter the transit areas of Kuwait’s airport, the plaintiff cannot demand transportation by the Kuwaiti airline from Frankfurt to Bangkok with a stopover in Kuwait,” said the Frankfurt-based High Court of Hesse.
Despite the extension of American soldiers in Syria, the Trump administration is aware that military training of certain forces abroad has a poor record of success.
Israel has signaled that it would not tolerate this new Iranian front in Iraq, as it has done with hundreds of airstrikes on Iranian military assets in Syria during its seven-year civil war.
The European Union passed a resolution condemning Israel and instructing the country not to demolish the Bedouin neighborhood of Khan al-Ahmar, whose 180 residents Israel wants to relocate.
Trump’s top envoy to the Middle East has a herculean task before him: to help negotiate the peace plan between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Amid talks, the group called the new Israeli law “racist.” Knesset members Ahmed Tibi and Jamal Zahalka reported that Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit called it an “apartheid law.”
“I have read the plan. It is thoroughly done. It is well-thought-out from both sides, the Palestinians and the Israelis,” said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
U.S. envoy Greenblatt says, “Palestinian Authority can’t criticize from the sidelines” days after Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas says Israel and Hamas will sign a deal “over my dead body.”
“Iran has been put on notice at the continued mischief they’ve caused around the area. The murder they have caused from Syria and what they’re doing with [Syrian President Bashar] Assad,” U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Tuesday.
