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Vance calls off Israel trip over new Gaza offensive

There is reportedly growing frustration in Washington that a peace deal remains elusive

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

American Vice President JD Vance reportedly called off a mooted trip to Israel over the new IDF offensive in Gaza (Image: Getty)

A Qatari Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport. Donald Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing jet from the Qatari royal family for use as Air Force One (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

By Melanie Phillips

Donald Trump’s troubling Middle East fantasy

5 min read

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) questions tech leaders in artificial intelligence during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tech leaders from OpenAI, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and CoreWeave testified about the global artificial intelligence race and how the United States can remain competitive. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The vicious media lynching of Senator John Fetterman

3 min read

Donald Trump has suggested the US could turn Gaza into a 'freedom zone' (Pictured: Trump addresses the press alongside Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; Image: Getty)

US Politics

Trump: US to ‘take’ Gaza and turn it into ‘freedom zone’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Released hostage Edan Alexander wears the Star of David necklace given him by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, which belong to Witkoff's late son Andrew (Image: Channel 12)

Hostages

US envoy Witkoff gifts late son’s Magen David to freed hostage Edan Alexander

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

Syria

Trump to lift US sanctions on Syria after Al-Sharaa meeting

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Edan Alexander will not fly to Qatar following his release, according to his family (Image: Flash90)

Hostages

Edan Alexander will not fly to Qatar, family say

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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By Yaakov Katz

Is Trump shifting his views on Israel?

Concern is growing in Jerusalem that the America First agenda might leave its regional interests in a distant second

3 min read

May 12, 2025 14:04

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an Oval Office meeting in April (Image: Getty)

Trump ‘drops Israeli normalisation’ as condition for Saudi nuclear deal

The move has further fuelled concern in Jerusalem that the White House is prepared to conduct Middle East policy unilaterally

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

May 9, 2025 09:52

President Trump has reportedly dropped Saudi-Israel normalisation as a condition of a US nuclear deal with the Kingdom (Pictured: Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the 2019 G20 summit; Image: Getty)

Israel contradicts Trump’s claim of hostage deaths

The US president said three hostages had died, prompting an Israeli rebuttal

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

May 7, 2025 10:56

President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Oval Office at the White House (Image: Getty)

Trump appoints Martin Marks as Jewish Community liaison

The role went unfilled during the President’s first term but has reportedly been prioritised given the administration’s renewed focus on antisemitism

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 2, 2025 15:09

Martin Marks has reportedly been appointed as the White House liaison with the Jewish community (Image: X/Martinjmarks)

Iran could sell enriched uranium to the US under new nuclear deal

Reports suggest that the framework of the ongoing negotiations is shaping up produce an agreement similar to the one abandoned by the first Trump administration.

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

May 2, 2025 09:55

US President Donald Trump has threatened sweeping new 'secondary sanctions' against importers of Iranian oil (Image: Getty)

By Maureen Lipman

Pool-side anxieties, the Rambam and one golden, salted margarita

Reflections from the Queen Mary 2: people-watching at sea and a tribute to the Schindler of Spain

4 min read

April 30, 2025 16:11

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 26: The world's biggest passenger liner, the Queen Mary 2 arrives at her home port of Southampton December 26, 2003 in Southampton, England. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will officially name the 550m GBP luxury liner on January 8, 2004. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Syria ‘willing’ to join Abraham Accords, claims Trump ally

Representative Cory Mills recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Damascus and expressed his ‘optimism’ regarding the country’s new president Ahmed Al-Sharaa

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

April 24, 2025 15:32