President Donald Trump said he canceled at the last minute a planned joint assault with Israel on Iran’s energy infrastructure at the behest of “Middle Eastern Countries,” which feared the war blowing up into a wider conflict. The U.S. alerts over the weekend warning citizens to evacuate the Middle East and then Trump’s announcement late […]
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Israel has rejected a Gaza peace plan advanced with much fanfare by President Donald Trump, saying it did not adequately address disarmament by Hamas. “There will be no Israeli withdrawal,” an unnamed “diplomatic official” said in a statement issued in Hebrew to Israeli reporters. The rejection has spurred blistering expressions of anger by unnamed U.S. […]
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WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slipped into the White House through a side door and didn’t get any public face time with President Donald Trump on his visit Tuesday. It was a choreography reminiscent of Netanyahu’s February visit that also lacked the ceremonial handshake followed by a question-and-answer session with reporters. Behind closed […]
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WASHINGTON – Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yair Lapid, the leader of his opposition, are in Washington, ostensibly to attend the funeral of one of the staunchest pro-Israel American politicians, Lindsey Graham. They are also, as Lapid made clear in an appearance Monday at the influential Atlantic Council think tank, launching a bruising […]
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President Donald Trump repeated his claims that the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan is imminent ahead of a highly anticipated meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday in Florida. While progress on the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel in October has been slow moving, with both Israel and Hamas accusing […]
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