Posts Tagged: Trump
Palestinian Authority: We Will ‘Cancel Recognition’ of Israel if US Embassy Moves to Jerusalem
JNS.org -- Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said he is considering "canceling [Palestinian] recognition of Israel" if US President-elect Donald Trump goes forward with moving America’s embassy in...
In ’60 Minutes’ Interview, Obama Downplays US-Israel Tensions During His Tenure
JNS.org -- In what was expected to be his last official interview, outgoing President Barack Obama downplayed the hit US-Israel ties has taken under his administration. Obama told the CBS Sunday program...
Alan Dershowitz: Does the Anti-Nepotism Statute Preclude Trump From Appointing Kushner?
The controversy over President-elect Donald Trump’s expected appointment of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a senior adviser raises serious constitutional issues regarding the separation of...
Trump Tells Obama’s Ambassadors to Leave by Inauguration Day
President-elect Donald Trump is not allowing for any diplomatic dawdling. His transition team has issued a directive that all ambassadors appointed by President Obama must...
US Senator Corker Says Trump Administration Won’t Toss Iran Deal
The chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that abrupt rejection of the Iran nuclear deal by the incoming Trump administration could create...
In Historic Move, Trump Team Invites Netanyahu to Inauguration
JNS.org -- US President-elect Donald Trump's advisers have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the upcoming inauguration ceremony, the New York Post reported Saturday. According to...
A New Book on the Six-Day War Should Be Required Reading for President Trump
JNS.org -- Guy Laron’s forthcoming book, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East -- to be published, fittingly, around the war's 50th anniversary --...
Barack Obama’s Antisemitic UN Act
JNS.org - It was particularly painful and frustrating seeing President Barack Hussein Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and US Ambassador to the United Nations...
Relocating the US Embassy to Jerusalem — A Litmus Test
President-elect Donald Trump's promises to terminate the US State Department policy referring to the whole of Jerusalem as an international (not Israeli) city, recognize unified Jerusalem as Israel’s capital...
Jewish Pundit Hounded by Black Lives Matter, White Supremacists Says He’s Received More Antisemitic Tweets Than Any Media Peer
Calling himself “more conservative than [President-elect Donald] Trump on every issue,” yet the bane of the alt-right, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire -- who has...
The Messy Process of Democracy
All complex societies are fragmented. Democracies particularly so. Dictatorships and autocracies act as if they are not. They try to suppress dissenters, which they can...
Did Religious Voters Make a Catastrophic Mistake in Supporting Trump?
Religion played a strong role in pushing Donald Trump into the presidency. One religious group in particular was instrumental in his victory: 80 percent of white...
Palestinians Call US Election ‘Choice Between Stupid and Evil,’ as Arab World Dismisses Presidential Powers, Attacks American Foreign Policy
The presidential election underway in the United States is a contest between “evil and stupid, [and] and you can choose which is which,” a Palestinian...
Our Moral Bankruptcy on Syria Betrays Every American Value
Much has been written about the unfolding tragedy in Syria, but how many of these unimaginable atrocities have truly reached the consciousness of the American...
