The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) are always ready for the signal and directives from the top leadership and head of state on the issue of Jerusalem. Defence Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the country should be prepared to face any eventuality. "As the Defence Minister, I am confident that we will carry out any order from the supreme commander of the Malaysian Armed Forces, Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V.

At least two Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded across the West Bank and Gaza, medical sources said Friday, as angry demonstrators took to the streets in another “day of rage” against President Trump’s controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

A move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is expected to set off riots across the Middle East—and threaten any momentum toward a two-state solution. By Abigail Tracy. (Dec. 6, 2017)

To accept Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is to participate in a project of violent social engineering, one that is slowly driving out Palestinians and replacing them with Jewish settlers. By Saree Makdisi.

A senior Iranian cleric called during Friday prayers for Palestinians to “rage” against Israel after US President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, an ultra-conservative and a key leader of the main weekly Muslim prayers, said Trump had drawn a line on years of peace efforts by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made it clear Thursday that Canada's embassy in Israel would remain in Tel Aviv, in a split with its neighbor and ally, the United States. "We will not be moving Canada's embassy from Tel Aviv," Trudeau said during a visit to Guangzhou, China, broadcast nationally in Canada. Trudeau was reacting to US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem, which is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians, as Israel's capital.

Donald Trump has officially announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, where he plans to relocate the American embassy. The US President admitted the move will cause dissent, but says it could help resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Turkish government’s spokesman on Wednesday said that the United States’ decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will plunge the region and the world into “a fire with no end in sight”. “Declaring Jerusalem a capital is disregarding history and the truths in the region, it is a big injustice/cruelty, shortsightedness, foolishness/madness, it is plunging the region and the world into a fire with no end in sight,” Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Twitter.

Netanyahu famously once said that the United States can be easily moved. Here are nine examples of his seeking to move United States policy, from pushing the Iraq war to pushing war on Iran, that would make Putin blush. By Philip Weiss.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition is irrational, bordering on messianic.

U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to deliver a speech on Wednesday recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, a move that could upend decades of American policy and further inflame tensions in the Middle East.

Yesterday morning in the West Bank village of Bil’in (Palestine), Israeli military and police forces performed violent late night/early-morning raids upon approximately 15 Palestinian homes. The Israeli forces arrived to the village from various directions in as many as 20 armored military jee...

Israeli military chief has said his country is prepared for a close cooperation, including sharing intelligence, with "moderate" Arab states like Saudi Arabia in order to rein in Iran. His statement has provided another dramatic twist to the rapidly changing political environment in the Middle East. In what has been described as an "unprecedented" interview to a Saudi newspaper, the Arabic language Elaph, General Gadi Eizenkot said Tehran remains the...

Israel called a far-right march that took place in Warsaw “a dangerous march of extreme and racist elements,” and urged Polish authorities to act against the organizers Monday. The Independence Day march Saturday was organized by groups that trace their roots to radical nationalist, pre-World War II anti-Semitic groups.

When Asi Naim, a severely autistic Israeli boy, started smacking his head against the wall and hurting himself in other ways, his parents tried every kind of psychiatric drug to calm him. Nothing worked. “He was so totally out of it,” said his mother, Ricky Naim Blumenfeld. “It was scary.” Then Asi entered a cannabis-based research program at Jerusalem’s Shaarei Zedek hospital. After a period of trial and error, he started getting a dosage of cannabinoid drops that worked.

Let’s remember what the document actually said in 1917 – and consider what the Israeli ambassador to the UK said this week. By Robert Fisk.

Israeli colonists flooded, Tuesday, dozens of Palestinian olive trees with sewage water, in Deir al-Hatab town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Coordinator of the Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights organization in the occupied West Bank, Zakaria al-Sidda, said the colonists flooded the olive orchards near Elon Moreh illegal colony. He added that the Palestinian owners of the olive orchards have been isolated from them, and are only allowed to reach them twice a year through special permits and coordination.

The city of Dickinson requires applicants for grants to repair homes or businesses damaged by Hurricane Harvey to refrain from boycotting Israel: ‘An egregious violation of the First Amendment, reminiscent of McCarthy-era loyalty oaths.’

The Russian cybersecurity firm is in the spotlight because of suspicions its products facilitate espionage.

The US ambassador in Tel Aviv has angered Palestinians with a comment downplaying Israel's 50-year occupation of the West Bank, the second such spat in a month. In a video interview with Israeli news site Walla broadcast in full on Friday, ambassador David Friedman said the Jewish state is "only occupying two percent of the West Bank".