Lloyd George was the British prime minister from 1916 to 1922. His government issued the Balfour Declaration and took control of Palestine during World War I, negotiated for the inclusion of the declaration’s language at the San Remo peace conference and in the mandate the League of Nations granted Britain for Palestine, and installed Herbert Samuel as the first high commissioner for Palestine.
In only the second Knesset address by a U.S. president, Bill Clinton hails the treaty Jordan and Israel signed the previous day as part of a peaceful wave sweeping the region, including the year-old Oslo Accords and soon a likely treaty with Syria.
The CENTCOM head demonstrates the strong U.S.-Israeli relationship in his eulogy for Omer Neutra, an Israeli-American soldier whose body was held in Gaza for two years.
January 15, 2021 The U.S. Department of Defense announced in the final week of the first Trump administration that it was shifting Israel from the area of responsibility of the U.S. European Command to the…
The U.S. military’s Central Command is responsible for an area stretching from Egypt to Pakistan to Kazakhstan, including Israel since September 2021.
May 15, 2008 Source: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080515-1.html When George W. Bush became the third U.S. president to address the Knesset on May 15, 2008, he was not trying to finalize a peace treaty, as Jimmy Carter was…
November 3, 2025 Compiled by Maya Rezak and Ken Stein David Adesnik, Mariam Wahba, Ahmad Sharawi, David Daoud, Natalie Ecanow, Hussain Abdul-Hussain and Bridget Toomey, “Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Foundation…
Among Palestinians, Hamas popularity soars, two state solution at lowest ebb, Rise in European Anti-semitism, and Michael Mihlstein’s insightful analysis an essential read.
Donald Trump takes a victory lap and lays out short- and long-term visions for Gaza, Israel and the Middle East while becoming the fourth U.S. president to address the Knesset.
U.S. Middle East envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff express confidence in a “60 Minutes” interview that the Trump peace plan will succeed in Gaza after two years of the Hamas-Israel war.
