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Visit to Saudi Arabia: Joe Biden warns against acts of violence against government critics

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The US President has met the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince. He blamed Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. US President Joe Biden said he warned Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of future acts of violence against government critics at their meeting in Jeddah. He made it clear to the heir to the throne that another act like the murder of journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 would result in a "response" from the United States, said Biden after his consultations with bin Salman in the Saudi Arabian port city. Khashoggi 's murder was "at the top" of the topics of conversation, the US President said. Khashoggi disappeared from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Later it turned out that he was murdered by a special commando. He had published opinion pieces from the United States that criticized the crown prince. According to US intelligence, bin Salman authorized the murder. Biden Proclaims In Israel Th...

Biden Proclaims In Israel That He Will Not Allow Iran To Have Nuclear Weapons

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The United States affirms that the best way to achieve this is through diplomatic channels and the nuclear agreement, although "it is prepared to use all the elements of its national power" to ensure it. Lapid tells him: "Diplomacy and words will not stop Iran" A few meters from the walls of the Old City, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem has become the most luxurious fortress in Israel, serving as the setting for the meetings of US President Joe Biden on the second day of his first tour in the Middle East. The leader has conveyed four central messages to Prime Minister Yair Lapid: the commitment to Israel's security ("as long as the US is there, you will never be alone"), the promise to avoid a nuclear Iran, the promotion of the normalization of relations with Arab countries and, finally, the need for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. All this has been recorded this Thursday in the Jerusalem Declaration signed by Biden and...

Middle East: US President Wants To Tie Israel More Closely To Its Arab Neighbors

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At the beginning of his Middle East trip, Joe Biden is counting on further integration of Israel in the region. Both countries are clearly opposed to Iran's nuclear plans. US President Joe Biden pledged US "unwavering" support to Israel at the start of his Middle East trip. Relations between the two countries are "deeper and stronger than ever," he said after landing in Tel Aviv. His government will work for the further integration of Israel in its neighborhood. Israel has over the past two years struck agreements to establish diplomatic relations with several Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, through US mediation. Observers assume that Biden also wants to mediate serious contacts between Israel and Saudi Arabia in the course of his trip to the Middle East. The US President meets Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday.   US firmly on Israel's side against Iran Otherwise, Biden's visit to Israel is primari...

ISRAEL: The Israeli Police Spied On Its Citizens Through Pegasus

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It would have been done without judicial permission and also tracked the mobiles of former employees of state corporations and two mayors. The Pegasus cyber espionage program is once again making headlines in the Israeli media. But this time not because of the claim that another country has used it to spy on activists or journalists instead of the declared purpose (fight against international terrorism and crime) for which it bought the sophisticated system from the Israeli company NSO.  The reason is that, as revealed by the Israeli newspaper 'Calcalist', the Police have used the software to penetrate the mobile phones of Israeli citizens and extract information from them without permission or judicial supervision. "The Police bought Pegasus in 2013 but it was in 2015 when he started using it from his cybernetic unit," explains the author of the journalistic investigation. His article has led civil associations and parties on both the right and the left to demand an ...