Trump Administration
The American flag was raised in Damascus for the first time since 2012 as diplomatic relations resume.
“They’re taking people from areas of the world that are very radicalized, and we don’t want them making trouble in our country,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
The action is in part due to the Ivy League school’s inaction to crack down on campus antisemitism and “race discrimination” in its admissions process, the U.S. General Services Administration wrote.
The U.S. has made “serious progress” with Iran, and is in talks with Hamas and Israel to try to halt the conflict, said the U.S. president.
The Israeli envoy to the U.S. also defended Netanyahu, saying that the charges against him are “collapsing like a house of cards.”
The U.S. secretary of state said in testimony on Capitol Hill that American pressure led to Israel lifting the blockade on Gaza aid.
The Syrian government’s apparent progress ought to also “set expectations for what must come next,” a U.S. diplomat told the United Nations Security Council.
The secretary of state outlined the Trump administration’s approach to Gaza and Iran in Senate testimony.
The president said that the U.S. will build a space-based missile shield within three years, modeled in part on Israel’s Iron Dome system.
Jews have faced “an incredible trial” since Oct. 7, “though one that was not unfamiliar in Jewish history,” the U.S. president stated.
Rabbis Mark Gottlieb, Yaakov Menken, Eitan Webb and Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, all Orthodox, will advise the new Religious Liberty Commission.
The Israeli prime minister said preventing starvation in Gaza is essential to securing military victory.
