More than 16,000 police officers to secure Biden’s Israel visit
The Israel Police announced on Sunday the completion of its preparations ahead of Wednesday’s visit to Israel by U.S. President Joe Biden. Read more
Majority of Israelis don’t trust Biden administration on critical issues, poll shows
July 12, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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The vast majority of Israeli do not trust the Biden administration to take into account Israeli interests during its negotiations with Iran over a renewed nuclear deal or in other critical matters, a new poll shows. Read more
Biden: ‘We’ve rebuilt ties with Palestinians, restored some $500 million in aid to PA’
The Biden administration has “rebuilt ties” with the Palestinian Authority and restored some $500 million in aid to it “without permitting terrorists to rearm,” U.S. President Joe Biden wrote in an op-ed published on Saturday night in The Washington Post. Read more
Israeli leaders discuss Biden’s upcoming visit with local counterparts
July 11, 2022 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke on the phone Saturday night in honour of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and ahead of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region this week. Read more
Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?
March 24, 2022 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you can’t win. Read more
US prepares to sign major appeasement deal with Iran
March 23, 2022 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
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As the Biden administration prepares to sign a final deal with Iran that has been lambasted by numerous experts as nothing short of a major appeasement of the Islamic regime, Washington is now also weighing the removal of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from a terror blacklist in return for a public commitment from Iran to de-escalation in the region. Read more
Abbas runs rings around Biden & Bennett
January 3, 2022 by David Singer
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It didn’t take long for President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to be shown up as inept political leaders following the much-publicised visit by President of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Chairman of Fatah its largest faction – Mahmoud Abbas – to the home of Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. Read more
Biden gives a clinic on how not to negotiate with Iran
November 21, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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It’s hard not to sympathize a bit with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his coalition partner Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. Read more
Israel’s post-American strategic challenge
October 25, 2021 by Caroline Glick - JNS
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A report last week about the discussions Israel and the United States are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. Read more
Biden backs UN racist plan to exclude Jews from East Jerusalem
October 25, 2021 by David Singer
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Israel has a real fight on its hands in resisting President Biden’s push to re-open the US consulate in Jerusalem. Read more
Biden Palestinian consulate move will be Bennett’s toughest test
October 22, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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Over the course of its first nine months in office, the Biden administration has had a lot of trouble getting out of its own way on just about every conceivable issue, be it domestic or foreign. Yet one of the few areas in which President Joe Biden hasn’t so far either screwed things up and/or appreciably worsened the situation is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more
US re-elected to UN Human Rights Council, vows to ‘push back’ against anti-Israel bias
The United States was elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday, reversing a move by the Trump administration, which withdrew from the international body in 2018 over its anti-Israel prejudice. Read more
President Biden’s short road back
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On August 14, 2020, I woke up to a barrage of WhatsApp messages. Group conversations I’m in were buzzing. The UAE and Israel had just announced a peace deal. People wanted to know, was this genuine peace? Was it a joke?..writes Robert Gregory.
Arizona shames Biden on Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Jews
September 13, 2021 by David Singer
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Arizona has highlighted President Biden’s weak leadership in failing to condemn Jew-hatred – by selling off Arizona’s $143 million investment in Unilever bonds ($50 million still to be sold) – after Unilever’s subsidiary – Ben & Jerry’s – announced its intention to stop selling its ice cream products from the end of 2022 to Jews living in Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Read more
In addressing antisemitism, honesty matters
September 8, 2021 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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A couple of years ago after giving a speech, I was confronted with what struck me as a bizarre query during the question-and-answer period. Read more
P.A. issues included in the Bennett-Biden meeting
August 30, 2021 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
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The Palestinian issue was discussed during the Israeli Prime Minister’s meeting with the President of the United States in Washington last Friday. Read more
Bennett heads home
August 29, 2021 by Aryeh Savir - TPS
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The Israeli delegation to Washington took off for Israel Sunday morning after multiple delays, including a delay of an entire day in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s meeting with President Joe Biden.
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Imbecilic insanity
August 27, 2021 by Michael Kuttner
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Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is reported as having called the American Administration’s total pullout from Afghanistan as imbecilic. Read more
PM Bennett flies to Washington to meet President Biden
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett left on his first diplomatic visit to Washington yesterday. Read more
Palestinian consulate pressure, differences on Iran loom over Bennett-Biden meeting
August 22, 2021 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
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On Aug. 26, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will walk the red carpet into the White House, where he will meet U.S. President Joe Biden. The two will exchange pleasantries and then they will get right down to business. One major issue the two leaders will discuss is, not surprisingly, Iran. Another major issue is the establishment of a Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem. And therein lies the problem. Read more
Bennett to head for Biden meeting in Washington
August 19, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will leave for Washington DC at the invitation of US President Joe Biden. Read more
Israel boosts Biden image whilst blunting UN and EU Jew-bashing
August 16, 2021 by David Singer
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The decision by Israel’s new Government approving the possible construction of 863 Arab residential units in Area C of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) is a positive move by Israel as it battles incessant United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) pressure seeking to deny it the legal right to reconstitute the Jewish National Home there under article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the UN Charter. Read more
Envoy will first need to root out antisemitism in the Democratic Party
August 6, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Read more
Biden nominates Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as next antisemitism envoy
July 31, 2021 by Dmitriy Shapiro
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After months of pressure from Jewish communal organizations to appoint someone to the position, the Biden administration on Friday nominated Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. Read more
Biden’s reward to UNRWA for bad behaviour
July 21, 2021 by Ruthie Blum - JNS
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The United States transferred $135 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday. Read more
Abdullah-Biden meeting will not help resolve Jewish-Arab conflict
July 12, 2021 by David Singer
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The meeting between Jordan’s King Abdullah and President Biden at the White House on 19 July seems set to achieve absolutely nothing towards resolving the 100 years-old conflict between Jews and Arabs. Read more
US suspends Abraham Fund; UAE urges Israel not to cancel pipeline
The Biden administration has suspended the Abraham Fund, which was established with the signing of the Abraham Accords in the fall of 2020, U.S. and Israeli sources told the business daily Globes. Read more
UN head urges Biden to lift Iran sanctions
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to lift sanctions on Iran as stipulated by the 2015 nuclear accord signed between Iran and world powers. Read more
Former ambassador Gold: World powers must work to prevent Iran’s quest for hegemony
June 30, 2021 by Israel Kasnett - JNS.org
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“Iran will never get a nuclear weapon on my watch.” Read more
The irrational faith in reason of the liberal intellectual
June 25, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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Anyone who imagines that the increasingly aggressive behaviour of the Iranian regime will force U.S. President Joe Biden to abandon his attempted revival of the lethal 2015 nuclear deal is almost certainly in for a rude awakening. Read more