by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has “every intention” of keeping his vow to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a Trump adviser said on Nov. 9. “It was a campaign promise and there is every intention to keep it,” David Friedman told the Jerusalem Post. “We are going to see a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 While world leaders were quick to congratulate Donald Trump for his historic victory on Nov. 8, shell-shocked foreign policy types were not so sure the sun would come up on Nov. 9 as President Barack Obama had assured. Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi was the first leaders to phone […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 4, 2016 Iran has deployed a secret, 25,000-strong Shi’ite militia to Syria with the sole purpose of fighting anti-Assad regime Sunni rebels, an Israeli official said. Avi Dichter, chair of Israel’s foreign affairs and defense committee, told a visiting Swiss delegation on Nov. 3 that the Iranian-backed force was made mostly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2016 Many centuries before their denial of a Jewish connection to Jerusalem, Muslims carved an inscription into a mosque acknowledging the link. The inscription from the Mosque of Umar in Nuba, a village nearly 26 kilometers (16 miles) southwest of Jerusalem, mentions the village as an endowment for the Dome […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 30, 2016 An adviser to Hillary Clinton aired her frustration with the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by referring to the leaders of the Jewish state as “ruthless wingnuts,” recently released emails by WikiLeaks show. Neera Tanden, who is also president of the Center for American Progress, wrote to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 28, 2016 A young Yazidi woman from Iraq said she considered suicide after the brutality she and her two sisters were subjected to after they were abducted and sold into slavery by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Marwa Al Aliko, in an Oct. 26 event at the Israeli Mission […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 27, 2016 Judaism and Jerusalem are all but identical i the minds of older Americans schooled in the Bible and history. Not so, say revisionists at the United Nations where Islamist regimes hold increasing sway. On Oct. 26, an Israeli official said an ancient Hebrew script that dates to the 7th […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2016 A new version of a UN agency’s resolution on Israel’s connection to Jerusalem still denies any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, a report said. The watered down version of the UN cultural agency UNESCO’s resolution “drops the words occupying power in relation to Israel, in an attempt to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 19, 2016 As aid commitments from its Arab partners lag behind, Egypt is turning to Israel to help steady Cairo’s faltering economy. With only a portion of the financial commitments from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait having been received, Egypt has partnered with Israel on a series of large-scale projects […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 The U.S. should re-examine its backing of Israel after a UN agency denied any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said. UNESCO’s resolution maintains that the Western Wall and Temple Mount will be referred to by their Arabic names and […]
