“We’ll hear the American proposal, hear it fairly and with openness. And I cannot understand how the Palestinians, before they even heard the plan, reject it outright,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. PA President Mahmoud Abbas dismisses plan, says, “What have the Americans proposed that is original? $50 or $60 billion? We are used to this kind of nonsense."

The Trump administration has tasked intelligence, military officials with finding new means of deterring Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf while avoiding an all-out war, The New York Times reports. Goal is to replicate Iranian-style shadow war, experts say.

At the heart of Democratic critiques of the Trump administration’s Middle East policy is a belief that the US should tell the Jewish state how to act.

Those who speak incessantly of democracy and equality are the greatest hypocrites of all. People like former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit and his ilk are arrogance and condescension personified.

“We pride ourselves as being a home for every Jew – a welcoming environment for everybody,” says Rabbi Moshe Bleich. “The last thing we would want is that people should not feel safe and not feel comfortable to come to a synagogue.”