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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) as President Trump’s ambassador to Israel.
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The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the Trump administration’s ambassador to Israel, two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House vis...
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Israeli occupation forces continued their crackdown in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday, demolishing several homes and detaining more than a dozen Palestinians.
In a statement, it said “the continued expansion of settlement projects in occupied Jerusalem exposes the malicious intentions of the occupation.” Israel seized the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967 in moves never recognised by the international community.
The Israeli security Cabinet approved on Sunday the construction of a road for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Critics say it will open the door for Israel to annex a key area just outside Jerusalem, further undermining the feasibility of a future ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is “changing the face of the Middle East.” It is, he says, “a war of rebirth.” It is, in a sense, undoubtedly true. But Netanyahu is a master tactician,
The former Arkansas governor has previously argued it is Israel’s right to annex the West Bank and has flatly rejected the push to establish a two-state solution when it comes to the Gaza Strip.
About 500,000 of these reside in the West Bank; the rest are in East Jerusalem. This means that around 10% of Israel's Jewish population resides in settlements deemed by the UN Security Council ...