U.S. Politics
U.S. citizens born in the Golan Heights will have “Israel” listed as their place of birth on their passports.
U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to relocate the embassy to its permanent location if he wins re-election in 2020 and could travel to lay the cornerstone during the election campaign.
Pelosi blasted President Donald Trump for tweeting a video, criticizing Omar for labeling at the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s Greater Los Angeles branch last month the 9/11 attacks as “some people did something.”
U.S. Ambassador Ron Dermer said that he is not afraid of the peace proposal, saying that “we know we have a friend here” at the White House in U.S. President Donald Trump.
Alain Soral, 60, was sentenced to a year in prison for comments posted to his website.
Record at a glance: Mayor Pete Buttigieg supports two-state solution, blames Hamas for lack of peace
“Most people aren’t aware of the difference between what’s happening in Gaza—run by Hamas in a way that is contributing to a lot of misery there—but also totally different than an environment where you’d have a negotiating partner across the table.”
House Republican lawmakers are launching a discharge petition to force a vote on the House floor on a Senate bill that would allow state and local governments the right to punish state or local contractors from engaging in boycotting Israel.
Since being elected to the House of Representatives in 2013, the California congressman has towed the party line on issues related to the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Amid concerns over anti-Semitism and erosion of support for Israel in the Democratic Party, a fledgling conservative group known as the Exodus Movement is seeking to appeal to young Jewish voters to switch allegiances ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
He has also called for a two-state solution, encouraging the Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who was wounded in Afghanistan, says those who are supporting the BDS movement “are operating in a fantasy world where they actually don’t understand what the Middle East is all about.”
Rwanda’s national airline, RwandAir, is expected to have direct flights to Israel in the coming months.
