Trump Administration
Alums for Campus Fairness executive director Avi Gordon told JNS, “This executive order reflects the thinking of past bipartisan efforts to stem the rising tide of anti-Semitism. We believe it’s time to act now to safeguard these Jewish students on and off campus.”
Executive order to label Judaism as a nationality, so that it would fall under Title VI, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in programs and activities that receive federally financial assistance.
Washington wants to help Iranians circumvent the Internet blackout in the Islamic Republic, along with speeding up its information campaign.
The United States has between 60,000 and 70,000 U.S. troops are in the Middle East, according to U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the region.
To that end, ambassadors of the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Oman and Bahrain met with Victoria Coates, deputy national security adviser for Middle East and North Africa.
The Trump administration’s policy reversal is “a huge achievement” that will “remain for decades,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells West Bank residents during tour of the region.
“If one believes in Israel not only being safe, but secure, the United States backed away from it with its ill-considered statement that settlements do not violate international law,” tweeted former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.).
It means that negotiations “will no longer begin from the premise that Israel has no claim to this land or stole it from the Palestinians. That false legal theory only served to harden Palestinian positions and make successful negotiations impossible,” said Eugene Kontorovich, director of the Center for International Law in the Middle East at George Mason University’s School of Law.
The responses were characteristically similar, with conservative groups lauding the long-desired position and liberal entities against what they feel is placing an obstacle on peace.
“Calling the establishment of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law has not advanced the cause of peace,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, noting that the ultimate status of these neighborhoods must be decided by Israelis and Palestinians.
Iranian Guardian Council member Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei tells AP that a full Iranian withdrawal is “natural, logical.”
Additionally, the U.S. State Department announced a $20 million reward for information about the whereabouts of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 while visiting Iran.
