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He is accused of “transferring and facilitating the entry” of a non-Muslim journalist into the city, which is the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed and location of Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba.
“I would like to reiterate that [it] was not intended to offend Muslims or any other person. If anyone takes offense to this video, I deeply apologize,” wrote news editor Gil Tamary.
PA chief Abbas thanks Saudi Arabia for ‘steadfast’ support
The Palestinian Authority leader noted Riyadh’s call to “establish a Palestinian state with east[ern] Jerusalem as its capital.”
The U.S. president’s “unprecedented visit to east[ern] Jerusalem ... was seen by many as a direct challenge to Israel’s sovereignty in its capital,” according to the Jewish state’s former ambassador to the United Nations.
During Biden’s visit to the kingdom, the U.S. president and Saudi Arabia agree on the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Topics of discussion and agreements focused on regional security, environment, technology and energy, which many believe was the primary topic of the U.S. president’s visit in the wake of oil shortages and high gas prices.
U.S. President Joe Biden calls the development an “important step towards building a more integrated and stable Middle East region.”
The U.S. president visited the city’s Church of the Nativity, following a stop earlier in the day to the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem.
The move comes hours before U.S. President Joe Biden is set to fly from Israel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is viewed as a tangible step towards normalizing relations between Israel and the Sunni Muslim kingdom.
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East is good for America and Saudi Arabia, but possibly dangerous for Israel, experts tell JNS.
Yair Lapid calls U.S. president “one of the closest friends that Israel has ever had in American politics,” extends olive branch to Saudi Arabia and other regional countries.
