The recent dispute between the Israeli government and U.S. officials preparing President Trump’s upcoming foreign tour has irked even one of Trump’s staunchest supporters in the Jewish world. “I said a few weeks ago that we’ve gone from the most anti-Israeli president, Obama, to Donald Trump, the most pro-Israeli president, but I think I spoke…
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used the term “Palestine” in an interview about the Mideast peace talks, just days after a White House official was forced to walk back using the term that implies recognition of the Palestinians’ right to statehood. In a discussion about President Trump’s upcoming visit to the region and possibly moving…
Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly “furious” at President Trump for not immediately moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem — and hit the roof when he heard Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tie the move to jumpstarting the peace process. The casino mogul forked over $80 million to elect Trump — and took…
(JTA) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that President Donald Trump is considering how a potential moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would affect the peace process. “The president, I think rightly, has taken a very deliberative approach to understanding the issue itself, listening to input from all the interested parties…
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his wife visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tillerson, his wife and two other family members, accompanied by a small security detail, toured the museum’s permanent exhibit on Saturday, the Washington Post reported. The visit comes days after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized for…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is having a hard time filling top positions in his office. The reason does not rest in Treasury becoming, all of a sudden, less attractive to aspiring politicians and top financial minds, but rather in Mnuchin’s picks lacking one key quality – loyalty to President Donald Trump. According to reports in…
Is Ivanka Trump shaping out to a liberal counter-force to Steve Bannon in Trump’s White House? After reportedly convincing her father to back off of an executive order which would allow LGBTQ discrimination, now the First Daughter is using her clout to influence the debate over climate change. According to the New York Times, the…
In a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) demanded that he restore materials on combatting anti-Semitism to the State Department website had been deleted during the transition from the Obama administration. The missing documents include a fact sheet on anti-Semitism, and issues of a newsletter put out by the Special…
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