Tag: Middle East

Trump calls off strike against Iran; reaction from Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger. #TheStory #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer…

The US will send 1,000 additional US forces and more military resources to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran, the Pentagon announced Monday. "In response to a request from the US Central Command for additional forces, and with the…

High-ranking former European politicians have condemned the Trump administration’s one-sided Israel-Palestine policy and called in a letter for Europe to reject any US Middle East peace plan unless it is fair to Palestinians. The letter, sent to the Guardian, the EU and European governments, was signed by 25 former foreign ministers, six former prime ministers, and two former Nato secretary generals. Europe must stand by the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine | Letter Read more Europe, it said, should reject any plan that does not create a Palestinian state alongside Israel with Jerusalem as the capital for both countries. Since taking office, and amid praise from Israel’s government, Trump has taken measures seen as both punishing to Palestinians and which also stifle the viability of a Palestinian state. Friedman told the pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington last month that Trump was “Israel’s greatest ally ever to reside in the White House” and now was the time to push through a plan as his administration understood Israel should have permanent military control over the Palestinian territories. On Tuesday, Netanyahu won the Israeli election and is expected to secure a fifth term in office by forging a coalition government from rightwing and pro-settler parties. A few days before the polls, the prime minister said that, if he won, he planned to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move Palestinians see as the end of their hopes for a state as there would be no unbroken land on which to build it. There aren’t going to be any settlers or settlements that are going to be torn. Queried about Netanyahu’s annexation plans, Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said they would not damage the undisclosed peace plan, hinting the US proposal did not envision Palestinian statehood. “I think that the vision that we’ll lay out is going to represent a significant change from the model that’s been used,” said Pompeo, who has previously stated he believes, as a Christian, it was possible God made Trump president to save the Jewish people.

Beresheet probe crash-lands on the moon; Phil Keating reports. #ShepSmith #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News…

Hoda Muthana tells Fox News that she has never hated America and that ISIS took over her Twitter account; Benjamin Hall reports from northern Syria. #SpecialReport #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX…

This as thousands of Palestinians continue to protest at the Israel border. Trey Yingst reports. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service,…

Usually positioned on the margins of the Middle East’s complex energy politics, Israel now is a legitimate player in its own right. Pouyanné further explained that Total was unwilling to put its other relationships in the region at risk by inking fresh deals with Israel. This should be no surprise, as Total likely still wants to partner with Iran in a gas-exploration deal that has now been put on hold because of renewed US sanctions. Additionally, the company has been working closely with Lebanon to explore that country’s offshore gas potential in the eastern Mediterranean. Over the past decade, boycott activists have been successful in pressuring European companies to end business relationships in Israel. It has the power to make deals that much more “complex” and bothersome for companies that wish to do business in or with Israel. Then again, Israeli political complexities in Levantine energy deals might soon face competition. Any significant discovery likely will be exported to Turkey, given its proximity to the fields and its recently upgraded relationship with Russia. But once Israeli gas begins flowing into the European Union, the relationship could soon strain, as Russia’s economy depends significantly on revenue from Europe. The complexity of politics – local and international – in the Levant will therefore factor increasingly in calculations of companies such as Total.

In a TRMS Special Report, Rachel Maddow shares newly published documents revealing former Vice President Spiro Agnew appealed to the Saudi crown prince for millions of dollars to support what he described as a Zionist conspiracy against him. » Subscribe…

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the U.S. and its allies that it would be 'suicidal' to start a war with Iran, accusing Washington of having a 'pathological obsession' with his country. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC…