Israel & Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine: Biden’s new solution?

President Biden needs to urgently answer three questions following these remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast: Read more

Biden opens UN door to Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

President Biden has seemingly indicated that he is now prepared to consider backing the normalisation of relationships between Israel and Saudi Arabia – if both acknowledge they favour implementing any solution – other than Biden’s preferred two-state solution – to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more

UN and Biden continue to ignore Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The passage of United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 2720 on 22 December signals that the UN and President Biden will not be playing any constructive role in resolving the future of Gaza and its population after the Israel-Gaza War is ended. Read more

Wrath of God II: To win, Israel must assassinate Hamas leaders everywhere

Israel’s military achievements against Hamas are impressive. As part of its campaign to destroy the terrorist group, Israel has reportedly struck over 22,000 targets in the Gaza Strip and has killed some 7,000 fighters since the war broke out. Read more

Biden: Forget Friedman & United Nations – focus on HKOPS

New York Times Foreign Affairs Opinion Columnist –Thomas Friedman – has offered President Biden some appalling advice in his latest op-ed. Read more

Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza: Biden

US President Joe Biden says the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following the Israel-Hamas war. Read more

US says Israel to begin four-hour pauses in northern Gaza

Israel will begin daily four-hour pauses in the northern Gaza Strip to enable Palestinians to flee hostilities in the coastal enclave, the White House says in what it calls a step in the right direction. Read more

Biden speaks to freed American-Israeli hostages

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Saturday with Judith and Natalie Raanan, freed the previous night from captivity in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Read more

Biden in Israel: ‘Your courage and commitment is stunning’

U.S. President Joe Biden praised the Israeli people’s wartime posture upon his arrival to the Jewish state on Wednesday. Read more

Biden meets Netanyahu amid Gaza hospital blast outrage

A massive blast at a Gaza hospital killed huge numbers of Palestinians, wrecking an emergency diplomatic mission by US President Joe Biden, who backed Israel’s account that the explosion was caused by militants, not by Israel. Read more

Netanyahu meets Biden

A video of the start of the meeting of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden in the Intercontinental Hotel in New York. Read more

Israel poised to become key transport hub but will strain ties with China

World leaders attending the G20 summit in New Delhi announced plans to create a transportation corridor between India and Europe via the Middle East. Read more

Pull the other one

When someone tells you something that is so patently absurd, the natural response is an old English expression “pull the other one, it has got bells on it.” Read more

Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works?

According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favour. Read more

Sovereignty may be the price for normalisation with Riyadh

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that “we will one day be able to have railways connect Saudi Arabia and Israel,” just hours after a New York Times piece suggested that the kingdom was expecting the Jewish state to make significant concessions to the Palestinians as a precondition for normalization. Read more

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine key to a Saudi-Israel peace

President Biden and New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman are attempting to resuscitate the failed solution they have both championed for decades to end the 100-years old Jewish-Arab conflict: Creating an independent Palestinian Arab state between Israel and Jordan (“the two-state solution”). Read more

Herzog lauds ‘wonderful meeting’ with Biden

In an address to foreign reporters, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who did not take questions, lauded a “wonderful meeting” with U.S. President Joe Biden, whom he called a “huge friend of Israel,” according to the pool report. Read more

Netanyahu gets an invitation to the White House

U.S. President Joe Biden this week hosts Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The purpose of the visit and speech to Congress is to celebrate Israel’s 75th anniversary. However, the absence of a formal invitation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until just before the trip added policy dimensions… writes David Wurmser. Read more

Israeli president in the US – visit to include address to Congress

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog is on an official diplomatic visit to the US. Read more

The real crisis in the West

Over the past six months, the mass protests in Israel over judicial reform have elicited loud cries in the West that Israel is “in crisis.” Read more

Herzog’s duty is to stand with Israel’s elected government

When Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives in Washington next week, he’ll get the kind of red-carpet treatment that is reserved for the friendliest and most important U.S. allies. Read more

Xi joins Biden as a Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine-denier

Chinese President Xi Jinping has joined USA President Biden in disqualifying both their countries from playing any mediating role in ending more than 100 years of conflict between Arabs and Jews over the territory once called Palestine. Read more

Biden in bind as Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution turns 1

President Biden must be feeling decidedly uncomfortable as the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) approaches its first birthday – with Israel and Saudi Arabia negotiating to possibly implement its terms – mediated by Bahrain – not the US. Read more

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more

Biden’s trip produced mixed bag of results for Israel, say experts

U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the Middle East accomplished most of the administration’s goals, but from Israel’s point of view, the results were a mixed bag, experts told JNS. Read more

Biden’s tweet on ‘Work with Israel is a Blessing’ deleted

A tweet posted on President Joe Biden’s official account summing up his visit to Israel and praising his work with the Jewish state was inexplicably erased shortly after being posted. Read more

Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour awarded to President Biden

President of the State of Israel Isaac Herzog bestowed the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor upon Joe Biden, the President of the United States, at a ceremony held at the official President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Read more

Autistic IDF soldier presents Iron Dome to President Biden

Shortly after alighting from Air Force One at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday and participating in a welcoming ceremony, US President Joe Biden toured a Defense Ministry display of Israel’s multi-tier air defence systems. Read more

Israel and US announce ‘Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology’

Israel and the US announced on Wednesday the beginning of a strategic partnership in the field of advanced technology that “will put Israel shoulder-to-shoulder with its leading ally, the US,” just hours before US President Joe Biden landed at Ben Gurion Airport to begin his in the region. Read more

Demonstrations during Biden’s visit in East Jerusalem banned

Several Israeli organizations have expressed rage after the police have banned their planned protests in eastern Jerusalem during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel’s capital later this week. Read more

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