The White House late Friday designated the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain as “major security partners” of the United States. “The designation as a ‘Major Security Partner’ is a status unique to the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain,” press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement. “It recognizes our […]

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Arthur Tane, president of the Canberra-based Council on Middle East Relations, said the normalisation of relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain could open up greater commercial opportunities for Australian trade and businesses. Tane told The Epoch Times that the new Abraham Accords that secured peace between the United Arab Emirates and […]

On Thursday’s episode of “The Sara Carter Show,” Donald J. Trump 2020 Campaign National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry for not only doubting any chance for peace in the Middle East, but for also kneeling to America’s adversaries in the region. In a 2016 speech that recently resurfaced after […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday celebrated the signing of the “Abraham Accords,” a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates brokered by the United States. “We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history,” Trump said. “After decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new Middle […]

JERUSALEM — Since its founding, Israel has seen itself as a modern-day Sparta, a tiny fortress nation-state in a hostile desert, whose survival depended on its internal cohesion and sheer military strength. All around it were Arab and Muslim enemies who denounced the Jewish state as a colonizing interloper, an outpost of foreign intruders who […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively last week in his office that President Donald Trump directly confronting radical Islamic terrorism made the United States and the world a much safer place, paving the path for historic peace deals like the Abraham Accords. Because the Trump administration directly confronted radical Islamic terrorism, Pompeo […]

In his Friday speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international conference early next year to hash out a new “genuine peace plan,” the Associated Press reported. In the same speech, he criticized the Persian Gulf states of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for recently […]

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively that part of how President Donald Trump and his administration have achieved many of the foreign policy successes the past few years has been by working outside various “multilateral institutions” that are often bogged down by bureaucracy and inaction. Pompeo’s interview took place […]

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s peace deals in the Middle East are “all connected” and stem from recognizing Iran as the primary threat to stability in the region. Pompeo’s interview came late Saturday night aboard the U.S. Air Force jet transporting him and the […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Thursday that President Donald Trump is making peace between Israel and several Arab states, but he said that he was doing so “accidentally.” “I think Trump is going to accidentally do something positive here, in terms of this issue of … other Arab states” making peace and establishing normal […]

October 27, 2020 Before heading to the Midwest, President Donald Trump had some updates about the Middle East. Asked by a reporter about if there are any more countries in the Middle East who may soon seek to normalize ties with Israel, President Trump said he thinks that more countries in the region will soon […]

<!–   –> <!– –> Sep 23, 2020 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said Wednesday on Al Arabiya that the news of the next country to sign a peace accord with Israel could become public “in the next day or two.” “It could be today,” Craft said. “It could be one in […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sept. 15 praised President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace deal, saying that it is “welcome news.” “Normalization of the relations between Israel and other countries is welcome news, but I want to see the details of the agreement,” Schumer told reporters during a press briefing Tuesday. “I’ve always […]

President Donald Trump will welcome delegations from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain to the White House Tuesday to sign a historic peace accord. It’s just the beginning to peace in the Middle East, Trump told Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, revealing that other countries are in talks with his administration to sign similar […]

President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated the news that Bahrain had agreed to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. “The sand was loaded up with blood, and now you’re going to see that a lot of that sand is going to be loaded up with peace,” he said. The president spoke about the agreement in the […]

October 21, 2020 During Wednesday’s State Department press briefing, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo teased that Sudan could be the next country to sign a deal to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. Pompeo also revealed that the U.S. is moving to lift the state sponsorship of terror designation still imposed against Sudan. The Trump administration […]

Commentary The Abraham Accords—Israel’s genuine, warm peace treaties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain just signed on the White House lawn—weren’t supposed to happen. When Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry articulated why they were impossible, he spoke for almost every credentialed expert, Democrat and Republican. Of course, whenever the impossible happens, the […]

Breaking & Developing The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed a historic peace agreement at the White House Tuesday, agreeing to normalize relations with Israel. The historic accords were brokered by the Trump administration as part of its plan for Middle East Peace. “We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history,” Trump said […]

Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author who opposed Donald Trump bitterly in 2016 and thereafter, has written in praise of the 45th president for negotiating peace agreements between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors. In a column titled “A Rare Middle East Triumph” (subtitle: “And — yes — a triumph for Trump, […]

<!–   –> <!– –> Sep 11, 2020 Updated The Trump administration has prioritized making lasting peace in the Middle East. A historic step was made with a recent accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and the two countries will have delegations in Washington next week to finalize an agreement. President Donald Trump […]