Posts Tagged: Trump administration
Iran Protests US Secretary of State’s Comments Backing ‘Transition’ in Islamic Republic
Iran has called in the Swiss charge d’affaires, who looks after US interests, to protest against comments by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson backing “peaceful...
Mideast Christian Activists Concerned by Arrests of Iraqi Coreligionists in US
JNS.org - Middle East Christian activists are raising concern over raids by US authorities last weekend that resulted in the arrests of dozens of Christian-Iraqi nationals living in...
Report: Abbas to Temporarily Shelve Demand of Israeli Settlement Construction Freeze as Negotiations Precondition
JNS.org - Amid the Trump administration’s Mideast peace push, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas will temporarily shelve his longtime demand that Israel freeze construction in...
Trump Signs Waiver to Delay Moving US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
JNS.org - President Donald Trump signed a waiver on Thursday to keep the US Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv, avoiding a move to Jerusalem for...
McMaster’s Western Wall Evasion
In a press briefing at the White House on Tuesday -- ahead of US President Donald Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Europe --...
US Extends Iran Nuke Deal Sanctions Relief, Imposes New Ballistic Missile Sanctions
JNS.org - The Trump administration announced on Wednesday it was extending the US portion of sanctions relief for Iran set forth in the Islamic Republic’s 2015...
Secretary of State Tillerson: Trump ‘Being Very Careful’ in Assessing Jerusalem Embassy Move
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that the president is being "careful" in assessing his campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy in Israel...
Christian Zionist Group Urges Trump to Move US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
JNS.org - The US branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) has sent President Donald Trump and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman a strategy paper calling for...
PA Official Rejects ‘Insane’ US Demand to Stop Payments to Terrorists
JNS.org - Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Nabil Shaath unequivocally rejected President Donald Trump’s request to end the PA’s policy of paying stipends to Palestinian terrorists...
Why the Iran Debate Is Not Over
JNS.org - When the Obama administration managed to avoid a congressional vote on its nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 courtesy of a Democratic Senate filibuster,...
Sebastian Gorka to Leave White House Position, Sources Say
JNS.org - Sebastian Gorka, a controversial adviser to President Donald Trump, will reportedly leave his White House post this summer for an appointment to a...
Alan Dershowitz: Democrats’ Overreaction to Spicer’s Holocaust Blunder Dishonors the Six Million
The politicization of the Holocaust dishonors the memory of the six million. Sean Spicer made a serious mistake when he compared Bashar Assad to Hitler, and...
Steve Bannon Removed From National Security Council Post
For the first 10 weeks of President Trump’s administration, no adviser loomed larger in the public imagination than Stephen K. Bannon, the raw and rumpled...
The Rebbe of the West Bank
Last week, my wife and I met at the White House with our friend Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s chief Middle East negotiator. Jason’s a busy...
