Middle East Experience

We must find it in ourselves to connect with God and each other, whatever it takes.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: This Yom Kippur, we must jump the barricades and become a unified Jewish state

The rise in the minister’s chief of staff security level requires additional security personnel around Dorfman, and accompany him through the day and night.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Ben-Gvir’s Chief of Staff Chanamel Dorfman raises security amid "Level Five" threats

Moscow and Tehran are strengthening ties, with economic cooperation growing, as tensions rise between Israel and Iran amid military threats.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Moscow expands ties with Tehran, as Israel weighs retaliatory strike on Iran

Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea met in Cyprus Friday to discuss the wars in the Middle East, which they fear will fuel migration and threaten their own security.Heads of state or government from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia were joined by the king of Jordan, Abdullah II, for the one-day meeting in the Cypriot city of Paphos."Only a few miles away from Cyprus, we have a war. We have a difficult situation," the president of the island, Nikos Christodoulides, said as he opened the summit.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: European Mediterranean states discuss Middle East, migration

A new squadron of US F-15s arrived at an undisclosed base in the region this week as Washington works to stop Israel from escalating the fighting in a counterattack on Iran.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: US F-15s arrive in Middle East as Israel preps Iran retaliation

The Israeli cabinet adjourned hours before Yom Kippur without a decision on when and how to retaliate for Iran's recent missile barrage.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel's cabinet remains uncertain about response to Iran attack

A US soldier who pleaded guilty to trying to provide information to the Islamic State group to help it attack American troops in the Middle East was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday.Cole Bridges, 24, pleaded guilty in June of last year to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder US military service members.Bridges, a private first class from Ohio, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday and 10 years of supervised release, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Fourteen years in prison for US soldier who sought to aid IS

Israel observed Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, on Saturday amid a firestorm of international criticism over its military offensive in Lebanon and its soldiers firing on peacekeepers.As the holy day got under way Friday from sundown, Israel faced diplomatic backlash over what it acknowledged was a "hit" earlier in the day on a United Nations peacekeeping position in Lebanon.Two Sri Lankan peacekeepers were hurt in the second such incident in two days, the UNIFIL mission said Friday.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel observes Yom Kippur amid firestorm over Lebanon strikes

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon warned Saturday against a "catastrophic" regional conflict as Israeli forces battled Hezbollah and Hamas militants on two fronts, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.Israel has faced a fierce diplomatic backlash over incidents in south Lebanon that saw five Blue Helmets wounded.On Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said Israeli air strikes on two villages located near the capital Beirut killed nine people.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: UN warns against 'catastrophic' regional conflict

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Saturday denounced Israel's "crimes" as he visited the site of the deadliest Israeli strikes on central Beirut in recent weeks, an AFP photographer said.A source close to Hezbollah had said Thursday night's strikes in the densely populated Basta neighbourhood and the nearby Nweiri district had targeted the Iran-backed Lebanese group's security chief Wafiq Safa.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran parliament speaker visits Beirut site of deadliest Israeli strike