SOURCE: DAILY BEAST BY: MICHAEL WEISS In his book The End of Iraq, Peter Galbraith writes that Paul Bremer, the American proconsul in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion, was absolutely convinced of the need to disband the Kurdish military force known as the peshmerga. Then as now they were the only stalwart American military ally in … Continued
SOURCE: THE HILL BY: BASSEM KAWAR On April 25, millions of Arabs and Muslims in the United States and abroad will turn their attention to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears argumentsfor and against President Trump’s third attempt at a Muslim travel ban. The court will consider the legality of the ban after allowing the Trump … Continued
SOURCE: THE HUFF POST BY: LAKSHMI SRIDARAN Adam Purinton, the white man who yelled, “Get out of my country” before shooting to death Indian-American Srinivas Kuchibhotla at a bar in Kansas, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree murder charges. Kuchibhotla’s killing, a hate crime by all accounts, cannot be seen as an anomaly. It speaks … Continued
SOURCE: THE DENVER POST By Paul Sonne and Karen Deyoung, The Washington Post In a December phone call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, President Donald Trump had an idea he thought could hasten a U.S. exit from Syria: Ask the king for $4 billion. By the end of the call, according to U.S. officials, the president … Continued
The discussion brought national security officials from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain together for an exceptional diplomatic moment. SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: MICHAEL WILNER WASHINGTON – Trump administration officials worked the phones for weeks to bring Israeli and Arab diplomats around the same table at the White House, … Continued
SOURCE: FOX NEWS BY: JOSEPH WEBER Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is now purportedly looking into whether the United Arab Emirates, with perhaps help from a top adviser, tried to gain political influence by putting money into Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign — a tack that would indicate Mueller’s investigation continues to expand beyond whether … Continued
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said that the plan tilts toward Israel and is unacceptable to the Palestinians. SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: HERB KEINON AND MICHAEL VILNER Two days after EU Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini warned the US against taking false steps on the peace process, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat report Wednesday that … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: TRITA PARSI Last week’s horrific school shooting reminded us that Donald Trump has made America less safe. While mass shootings predate Trump, he has done something his predecessors did not: domestically, he’s shifted our focus towards immigrants and Muslims as threats, while willfully neglecting the threat posed by racists and rightwing extremists. Internationally, … Continued
SOURCE: THE HILL BY: MAX GREENWOOD President Trump is reportedly set to field a series of meetings with Arab leaders in an effort to reach a peace deal over Qatar. Axios reported Friday that Trump will host leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in separate meetings in hopes of ending a squabble that has … Continued
SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST BY: TAMAR BEN-OZER United States Ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday night said that President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan is nearly ready while speaking at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. During a question-and-answer session led by the Institute’s current head, David Axelrod, she said: “They’re coming … Continued
SOURCE: WELCH.HOUSE.GOV WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. David Price (D-N.C.), joined by 100 House colleagues, sent a letter to President Trump urging him to continue United States funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and bilateral assistance to the Palestinians. The letter follows a recent Trump Administration decision to cut … Continued
SOURCE: CNN BY: OREN LIEBERMANN Jerusalem (CNN)The Israeli Prime Minister stood before a crowd of journalists, a collection of reporters from the foreign press, gathered for an annual civil New Year’s toast. Benjamin Netanyahu, standing in a navy blue suit and red tie — not quite as bright as the tie that has been a … Continued
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