Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were dealt a setback. But their continuing popularity and the failure to pass a bill that would ban BDS discrimination shows that the fight against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is far from over.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan calls House resolution rejecting boycott of Israel an "important achievement" and a show of bipartisan support for Israel. BDS movement: Resolution is "based on lies."
King Abdullah II meets with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and restates that a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital is the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Remarks by Hossein Dehghan reflect a toughened Iranian stance to Western proposals to bolster security in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker last week.
Draft statement submitted to UN Security council warned that demolition "undermines viability of the two-state solution." Diplomatic officials say US objected to two different drafts, which must be approved by consensus.
