Israeli officials celebrate release of Naama Isaachar, credit close ties with Kremlin, though official says move made as goodwill gesture to US, not Israel. Putin signed
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The Left: ”Trump and Netanyahu dictate terms of Palestinian surrender to Israel and call it peace”
”A plan to solve the conflict with the Palestinians, without any Palestinian present.”
The Israeli right’s dream come true could end in brutal nightmare
Appendix: THE FULL PLAN (PDF). Only the ramifications of the White House events remain unclear; it’s clear that Netanyahu can no longer evade prosecution.
Abbas on US plan: ‘We say 1,000 times: No, no and no to the deal of the century’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas firmly rejected the Trump administration’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday, calling it the “the slap of the century.”
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Poll: After Trump’s Middle East peace plan is released, Likud surges past Blue & White
Israelis overwhelmingly back Trump’s peace plan, new poll shows, with just 16% opposed to it. Israeli Right takes lead over the Left.
What does the PA get under the ‘Deal of the Century?’
Israel to provide PA with land swaps, access to Haifa, Ashdod ports under Trump peace plan.
Trump peace plan gives Israel chunks of West Bank, creates Palestinian state
50-page political outline calls for four-year settlement freeze, but leaves many settlements intact, US officials say.
U.S. recovers remains from Afghanistan plane crash, officials say
Earlier on Tuesday, Afghan forces and Taliban fighters clashed in a central region where the U.S. military aircraft crashed as the government tried to reach the wreckage site in a Taliban stronghold.
Media reports: Top CIA Officer behind Soleimani assassination died in E-11A crash in Afghanistan
Michael D’Andrea’s name began to appear in Farsi media in the wake of the Soleimani killing when articles at Mehr News and Radio Farda claimed he was involved in planning the US operation.
Update: Picture proves – John Demjanjuk served at Sobibor death camp
Picture shows John Demjanjuk, whom survivors identified as Nazi guard ‘Ivan the Terrible,’ in Nazi uniform at Sobibor death camp.
Netanyahu indicted for corruption in three cases, in first for a sitting PM
Move comes hours after premier abandons bid for immunity from prosecution; sources close to PM say he is ‘the target of obsessive persecution.
Netanyahu abandons his immunity bid, paving way for an indictment within days
PM denounces ‘immunity circus’ while he is in US on ‘historic mission’; Gantz says premier can’t run the country while fighting to clear his name in the three graft cases against him.
Warning shots fired as migrants rush Serbia’s border with Hungary
A Hungarian security officer fired three warning shots early on Tuesday after about 60 migrants tried to force their way through a checkpoint on the EU
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Iran prepares site for satellite launch that U.S. links to ballistic missiles
The United States fears long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch nuclear warheads.
Study: Neanderthals migrated to Siberia – Twice
Anomalous Neanderthal tools in two caves are unlike those found in the nearby Denisova Cave, but are remarkably like ones found in distant Croatia.
‘Embarrassing mistake’ or revising history? German paper says AMERICANS liberated Auschwitz – and it’s not the only one.
The German weekly Der Spiegel “mistakenly” said the US Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz death camp. They have company in erasing the Soviet Union’s role in ending the Holocaust from WWII history, too: the White House.