Posts Tagged: Trump Israel
Jewish Groups Weigh-in on Pompeo for Secretary of State
JNS.org - Many major American Jewish organizations are pleased by the nomination of CIA director Mike Pompeo to succeed Rex Tillerson as US secretary of state,...
Why Is Trump Betraying American and Jewish Terror Victims?
JNS.org - It turns out that in some cases, the Trump administration can behave just like its predecessors. President Donald Trump has been rightly accused of smashing...
A New Bipartisan Consensus on Israel
JNS.org - J Street and the radical wing of the Democratic Party have worked hard in recent years to chip away at the party’s traditional support...
Trump Follows Through on Jerusalem Promise
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on December 6 was not a political move, but rather the fulfillment of a...
Is Trump Preparing to Put Pressure on Israel?
JNS.org - In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has repeatedly indicated that he intends to pressure Israel to make yet more concessions to the Palestinian Authority....
Former Ambassadors Oren, Shapiro: Israel Can’t Vilify, Abandon Democrats
JNS.org - Following a recent Pew Research Center poll that revealed only 27 percent of Democrats sympathize with Israel more than with the Palestinians, ominous headlines flooded Israeli...
Trump’s Jerusalem Statement Shakes Up the System
A number of Israeli commentators have sought to reduce the significance of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and even...
Two Vice Presidential Visits to Israel — One Big Difference
JNS.org - Anybody who watched Vice President Mike Pence’s address to the Knesset had to be deeply impressed by his heartfelt solidarity with Israel. His repeated...
Will the State Department Sabotage Trump’s Israel Policy?
President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv, was opposed by most of the US foreign policy establishment,...
Washington’s New Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - The Trump administration’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict represents what some Mideast experts and Israel advocates are describing as a paradigm shift in Washington, DC...
The Trump Peace Plan for Israel Won’t Work
President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel occurred against the backdrop of his ambition to devise a comprehensive peace proposal...
Don’t Cut Off UNRWA, Try to Reform It
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, has now questioned the credibility of UNRWA as a recipient of American aid. By no small coincidence, the...
Are Some Reform Leaders Now Embracing Trump’s Jerusalem Decision?
JNS.org - Some in the Reform movement have started to retreat from their opposition to the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Following President...
A Special ‘Thank You’ for Trump’s Jerusalem Move
JNS.org - On the last day of his visit to Jerusalem in 1871, William Seward -- secretary of state under President Abraham Lincoln -- attended Sabbath evening prayers...
