Jordan summoned Australia's charge d'affaires John Feakes after Canberra said it would no longer refer to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as "occupied", the foreign ministry in Amman said on Monday. "The ministry summoned the Australian charge d'affaires and informed him that the kingdom is concerned about the Australian government's decision to stop referring to
A former Hamas government spokesman revealed on Sunday that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said in private meetings he is lying in public statements to "trick the Americans." The spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein, wrote on Facebook that "behind closed doors," Abbas had said "when I go out and say that the government is
Egypt’s former defense minister Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi was officially sworn in as President on Sunday, after winning by a landslide 96% vote in last month's elections. He will rule for a four-year term. “I swear by Almighty God to loyally uphold the republican system, to respect the Constitution and the law, to fully uphold
A senior Egyptian official revealed Saturday that newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's administration strongly supports the new Hamas-Fatah unity government, and is considering giving it supervision of the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Sinai. The official, who spoke to the Judea and Samaria-based Arab Ma'an News Agency on condition of anonymity, said Egypt
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Friday joined those condemning Israel's announced construction of roughly 3,300 new housing units in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. “Israel's move to establish settlements, which clearly violates international law and harms the vision of a two-state solution, is unacceptable,” said a Foreign Ministry statement quoted by the Today’s Zaman daily.
President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, hinted on Friday that the United States was sending weapons to the Syrian rebels, when she said Washington was taking important steps in Syria by offering both "lethal and non-lethal" aid to the moderate opposition. The comments were made in an interview Rice gave to CNN.
Pope Francis on Sunday told the Israeli and Palestinian presidents that they “must respond” to their people’s desire for peace in the Middle East and to obtain “the strength to persevere undaunted in dialogue,” Reuters reported. The pope made his appeal to Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas at the end of an unprecedented prayer
For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran will be heard at the Vatican on Sunday, in a move by Pope Francis to usher in peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Francis issued the invitation to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit last
Egyptian security forces arrested six terrorists who had planned to attack newly elected President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's entourage after his swearing-in ceremony next Sunday. The arrest was reported in the Egyptian paper Al-Watan, which added that diagrams of the new president's palaces and paths of how to enter them were found in the possession
Leftist MKs, the EU, and the US have encouraged Israel to work with the new Palestinian Authority (PA) "unity" government, claiming cooperation is the "only way" to end the Israeli-Arab conflict. Husam Badran, a senior Hamas official, disproved this on Thursday, stating that the "Palestinian people" still openly support terrorism. The official explained
