MidEast

The White House’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said the United States will cut funding for the United Nations Human Right Council and for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Associated Press reported Thursday. The Trump administration pulled out of the 47-member body in June, accusing...

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Harvey, Irma, Maria, José and Nate will forever be names associated with the catastrophic 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. One year later, millions of people from Texas to the Caribbean still suffer physical and psychological fallout from those disastrous weather events. At the time, Israelis from IsraAID, Magen David Adom, Dream...

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Because terrorists use human shields to protect themselves or cause civilian casualties “without facing consequences,” it is imperative that “terrorists and their sponsoring regimes must be held accountable for their brutal practice of using civilians as human shields,” argued two experts in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Wall Street...

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At a news conference Wednesday, John Bolton, the National Security Advisor of the United States, called Israeli airstrikes against Iranian military assets in Syria “a legitimate act of self-defense,” The Jerusalem Post reported. Bolton also noted that the U.S. under President Donald Trump had twice struck at Syria for its use...

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Israel’s finance minister is eliciting support for a plan to strengthen the West Bank’s economy from the United States and European Union even as the Palestinian Authority is opposing such efforts, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. During the past three years, Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has been promoting a plan to build jointly-operated...

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The German government is under fire for efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran, after German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said “every day that the Iran [nuclear] agreement lasts,” is making the world safer, Benjamin Weinthal, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported for FoxNews.com on Wednesday....

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