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Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Saudis offer Palestinians symbolism while really wanting to use Israel and the US to strengthen their own leadership in the Middle East

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Yesterday, Saudi diplomat Nayef al-Sudairi arrived in Ramallah as the Saudi envoy to the Palestinian Authority. He did all the things skitti...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Why doesn't the US tell Libya (and other Arab nations) to stop acting like children when Israel is discussed?

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The story about the meeting between Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen with his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush, and the angry reacti...
Monday, August 28, 2023

What does Israel gain from a Saudi normalization deal?

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The US negotiations with Saudi Arabia over recognizing Israel looks more and more like using Israel as a pawn for a US-Saudi deal than anyth...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Final BRICS statement shows how little the Palestinian issue matters even to their allies

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The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports : The President of the Palestinian National Council, Ruhi Fattouh, welcomed today, Thursda...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Yes, there was a Saudi consulate in Jerusalem before 1948

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Haaretz reports: Saudi Arabia’s appointment of its first ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, who will also serve as consul general to J...
Friday, June 30, 2023

What are Israel's options on Hezbollah's clear aggression on Israeli territory?

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From The Cradle : Washington is urging the Lebanese government to pressure Hezbollah into removing an outpost erected in the occupied Shebaa...
Monday, March 13, 2023

To China, Israel must be marginalized

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There has been a great deal of analysis about the Chinese-brokered improvement of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.  As AP notes , Th...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

US signs agreement to send billions to Jordan - no strings attached

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This story from September sure flew under the radar. From Jordan News: US Ambassador to Jordan Henry Wooster has said that the memorandum o...
Monday, January 02, 2023

01/02 Links Pt1: UN's advisory board on Israeli 'occupation' is hypocrisy; 'Even animals get better treatment': Tortured by Hamas, man finds refuge in Israel

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From Ian: JPost Editorial: UN's advisory board on Israeli 'occupation' is hypocrisy It asked the ICJ to define how Israel’s pr...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

12/14 Links Pt2: No, Zionism isn’t out of date: Why the US arrests some terrorists but ignores others; Professor reveals pervasive antisemitism at University of Toronto Medical School

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From Ian: No, Zionism isn’t out of date Ha’aretz columnist Anshel Pfeffer does not believe in Zionism. He doesn’t oppose it, he just think...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

11/22 Links Pt1: Hold Abbas accountable; NYTs demonstrates why Israelis have turned right; Mossad was behind intelligence tip to UK’s MI5 over Iranian terror threats

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From Ian: Hold Abbas accountable We should recall here that last March, then-ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the launch of an inve...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Israel giving up its maritime rights under pressure from Biden

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Haaretz reports: On August 31, Yair Lapid and Joe Biden held a phone call. Afterward, the offices of both men issued a press release, as is ...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Is the US State Department taking Jerusalem out of Israel again?

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Under the Obama administration, virtually all mentions of "Jerusalem, Israel" were scrubbed from the State Department websites, an...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Here are the world leaders Abbas has met so far in New York (update)

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Ramallah News reports: Member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Osama al-Qawasmi, announced the agenda of President Mahmoud Abbas, while ...