Middle East

“The United Arab Emirates can have an expanding role with the State of Israel. They are a country that is trying to counter the forces of extremism,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

“We’ve been at this for a while and looking at this always as a glass half-full. We have to give the Americans the benefit of the doubt,” said the Jordanian leader.

An Arab League committee is purportedly drafting a plan to thwart Israel’s bid to join the United Nations Security Council in the 2019-2020 term.

The Philippines stated Monday that the country would deport an Iraqi citizen who has assisted the Gaza-ruling terror group Hamas with developing missiles to shoot into Israel.

Could the U.S. and Israel more aggressively promote regime change in Iran through supporting dissident minority groups, including by arming them?

President Donald Trump’s international negotiations representative, Jason Greenblatt, is arriving in Israel on Wednesday for meetings with representatives of the Middle East Quartet.

Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf states supported last week’s U.N. resolution opposing U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but they didn’t make a lot of noise over it.

The critically acclaimed documentary “Remember Baghdad,” released this year upon the 100th anniversary of the British-Ottoman battle over that city during World War I, is the untold story of Iraqi Jews—filmed through their eyes. Their story is not always one of simply fleeing to arrive in the Jewish state.