France reportedly seeks to extend UNIFIL mandate in Lebanon, expand its authority

by mgall74 | Dec 5, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] France is advancing a plan to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, the peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, which is set to expire this summer, according to a report by the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar...

Trump applies the brakes in Lebanon and Israel will have to give diplomacy a chance

by mgall74 | Dec 3, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] After U.S. President Donald Trump reprimanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to the military operation in the town of Beit Jinn in the Syrian Golan Heights and his order, “It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue...

Netanyahu to send envoy to Lebanon for talks on bilateral ties under U.S. pressure

by mgall74 | Dec 3, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the acting head of Israel’s National Security Council to send a representative to a meeting with government and economic officials in Lebanon, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday. The prime...

U.S. official who brokered Lebanon cease-fire urges Israel against war with Hezbollah

by mgall74 | Dec 2, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Speaking at the Israel Hayom conference, the Biden administration’s envoy to Lebanon said Israel ‘can’t keep living in a state of war.’ U.S. Envoy to the UN Mike Waltz praised Trump’s Gaza cease-fire plan, saying a Doha strike...

Novelists in Arab countries recall Jews who were once there, and then disappeared

by mgall74 | Dec 2, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Beirut, summer of 1954. The streets were filled with demonstrations against the Baghdad Pact, a military alliance between Great Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran to counter Soviet expansion in the Middle East. While security forces mingled with young...