David Singer: December 6 marks the first anniversary of President Trump’s historic and ground-breaking announcement to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
David Singer: President Trump’s as-yet unannounced “ultimate deal” to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict has received a setback following Saudi Arabia’s King Salman reassuring Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that Saudi Arabia would oppose any Trump peace plan that did not accept the PLO stance on East Jerusalem becoming the capital of an independent Palestinian Arab state.
Liberal MP Tim Wilson spoke in federal parliament in an adjournment debate on cultural genocide...focusing on the 1915 Armenian genocide and last December's United Nations resolution 2334 denying Jewish historic rights to East Jerusalem and the disputed territories.
The human consequences of implementing the recent United Nations resolution about Israel would be devastating, say American representatives of Israeli schools, synagogues and other institutions in parts of Jerusalem that Israel captured in 1967...writes Rafael Medoff/JNS.org.