The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop in Bahrain last week proved that the winds of peace between the State of Israel and the Arab Sunni states are becoming stronger and stronger. It was Jared Kushner’s brilliant plan to bring together leaders, experts and professionals from around the world to discuss economic development, institution-building and paths to
The question on the minds of Middle East leaders is: Why is Iran taking such risks and playing an endgame of Russian roulette? On Thursday, June 20, President Donald Trump ordered a retaliatory attack on Iran for the downing of a US surveillance drone in the Strait of Hormuz. The order was rescinded just before
Candidate Donald Trump was critical of the deal reached with Iran by then-President Barack Obama, and referred to it as the “worst deal ever.” Trump felt that it gave Iran too much for a very little in return. As president, Trump was later in a position to rescind the lop-sided treaty. As a product of
The late Shimon Peres talked repeatedly about the “new wars” of the twenty-first century taking the form of economic, media, ideological and proxy wars. President Donald Trump’s plan for an economic summit in Bahrain on June 25 and 26 will include government and industry leaders. Conference organizers will attempt to mobilize nations from the Middle
The campaign for the 2020 presidential election has begun and Donald Trump is already the winner! There is no possibility that any of the Democratic candidates can compete with President Trump when it comes to Israel. On the weekend of June 15, I spoke at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York. Speaking prior
On Jerusalem Day, the Israeli people celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem after the 1967 Six-Day War, but they will also be remembering the courageous move US President Donald Trump made to move the American Embassy to Israel’s capital – Jerusalem. In 1967, the State of Israel acted in self-defense to preemptively take out the Egyptian,
Since 1948, the State of Israel has seen friendly presidents of the United States as well as unfriendly, but today Israel’s greatest friend sits in the White House. Since taking office in 2017, President Donald Trump has achieved more for Israel and the Jewish people than any other president before him, even rivaling Harry Truman,
The Trump administration announced on Sunday the first stages of the peace plan roll-out, confirming that it will host a workshop in Bahrain in late June to focus on more direct economic investments of the West Bank and Gaza. The gathering, formally dubbed the “Peace to Prosperity Workshop,” will take place on June 25-26 and
The recent New York Times cartoon featured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a guide dog leading a blind President Donald Trump who was wearing a yarmulke says it all! It’s the kind of rubbish Jew-hating that regimes post before they attack and kill Jews. During the pogroms, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Holocaust such antisemitic
The words quoted above were those of Casper ten Boom. The frail 84-year-old man had been arrested and dragged from his home to the Netherlands’ Scheveningen Prison where he was forced to sit for hours on a stone floor. Ten Boom, a patriarch and Christian Zionist, met evil face-to-face on that cold February day in