Washington, DC – United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held a “productive” 30-minute call, the White House says, amid an escalation of violence across the Middle East. The call between the two leaders on Wednesday was their first publicly announced conversation since August. “It was direct. It was productive,”…
NewsFeed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again employed rhetoric to cast his war on Palestinians in Gaza as ‘defending civilisation against barbarism’. This time, he was condemning France’s President Emmanuel Macron who called for an end to the sales of weapons to Israel that will be used in Gaza and Lebanon. Published On…
A Chinese diplomat beams with satisfaction as an unlikely world leader smiles while leafing through a book dedicated to Xi Jinping Thought, plucked from a box on the desk that separates the pair. The remarkable photo was taken a little over a year ago, in July 2023. The leader is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…
On live television, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera’s occupied West Bank bureau in Ramallah and handed the bureau head, Walid al-Omari, a notice to shut it down. The soldiers ordered everyone working the overnight shift at the bureau to leave, telling them they could take only their personal belongings. What happened and why?…