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Breaking News Jared Kushner Is Trump’s Main Man On Mideast Peace — But What’s His Plan?
If Jared Kushner has a plan to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, so far he’s giving little away. In the four months since President Donald Trump took office and gave his 36-year-old son-in-law the job of forging peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Kushner has kept his plans under wraps for a conflict that is nearly…
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Fast Forward How Jason Greenblatt Kept Kosher On Trump’s Visit To Saudi Arabia
What does a kosher-keeping Trump advisor eat in Riyadh? Jason D. Greenblatt, the president’s special representative for international negotiations, gave us a hint when he tweeted his thanks to the U.S. Mission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for supplying him with kosher food during his stay. He included the hashtag #Frozenmealscanbegood. The father of…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Will Travel With Dad For Most Of Mideast Trip
Ivanka Trump will be at her father’s side as he takes his inaugural foreign trip this week visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Vatican City and Italy. According to the Associated Press, the first daughter will accompany the commander-in-chief on six of nine days of travel. On the first leg of the trip in…
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Opinion Like Nixon, Trump Carries Baggage To The Middle East
In this season of final exams, let’s take a brief test on American political history. It consists of a scenario, a question, and four possible answers. If you feel a wave of déjà vu as you proceed, don’t panic. It’s perfectly appropriate. Here we go. You are the president of the United States. You or…
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Breaking News House Dems Urge Trump To Preserve ‘Two States’
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The overwhelming majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump to reaffirm the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as U.S. policy. With 187 of 193 voting Democrats signing, the letter to Trump released Friday is a pointed reminder of how divided the parties remain on how…
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News On Mideast Peace, Trump The Bomb-Thrower Starting To Looks Like Mr. Normal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Trump administration rhetoric about Israeli-Palestinian peace is typical of a president who would make everything great: President Donald Trump is going to bring about a “historic” deal, the White House has said, one that would “reverberate positively throughout the region and the world.” What isn’t typical, at least for a president who has…
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Fast Forward Which Middle Eastern Airlines Scrub Israel From Their Maps?
Some popular Middle Eastern airlines completely erase Israel’s name off otherwise comprehensive world maps, regardless of if they fly there or not. Why is this? For example, Qatar Airways and Saudia and Kuwait Airways all omit Israel, the Economist reported. Still other airlines take another approach. Egypt Air does include Israel on its map —…
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Recipes The Secret to Perfect Falafel
My friend Nancy Silverton went to Israel last year and came home with a rough, scribbled- down secret “recipe” for how to make what she promised were falafel so crispy, crunchy, and flavorful that they turned her, a falafel skeptic, into a believer. The first time I looked at it, I thought there was something…
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