Israel says its "deep, significant security relationship" with the US will remain unaffected amid claims that Donald Trump shared classified information with Russia, which he allegedly received from Tel Aviv.

"The security relationship between Israel & our greatest ally the United States, is deep, significant, and unprecedented in volume," Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman tweeted on Wednesday.

"This relationship with the US is unprecedented in its contribution to our strength. This is how it has been and how it will continue to be," he wrote.

The original Enemy Number One and primary target of the War on Terror — has again received a green light to continue terrorizing civilians, after a transformation in name, alone, allowed its removal from the West's official list of terrorist groups.

In lockstep with the United States, Canada has now failed to list Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham — the latest manifestation of the constantly morphing terrorist organization — on its list of designated terrorist groups.

Simply put, al-Qaeda militants are no longer deemed 'terrorists' by either the U.S. or Canada — despite the group's unabashed use of the same terrorist tactics which originally garnered the terrorist designation — seemingly only because it changed its name.

Militants now calling themselves Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, are not less terroristic in tactics nor less power-thirsty in agenda than the first manifestations of al-Qaeda the U.S. deemed dangerous enough for Western governments to pin to the top of terror watch lists.

In fact, despite acrimonious contention between them, Tahrir al-Sham and the self-designated Islamic State, or Daesh, share myriad traits, and even leaders, in common — yet only the latter remains atop the terror list in Canada and the U.S.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said that Britain will further work and share intelligence data with the United States.

"We continue to work with the United States and continue to share intelligence with the United , as we do with others around the world because we are all working together to deal with the threats that we face," May told reporters on Wednesday, as cited by Reuters.

She added that the issues discussed by the US leader "with anybody that he has in the White House is a matter for President Trump."

The prime minister said that she has confidence in the bilateral relationship, adding that their cooperation provides better protection from security threats.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan supported on Wednesday the establishment of the de-escalation zones in Syria agreed on during recent Astana talks on Syria settlement.

Leader of Egypt and Jordan also supported the negotiations on the Syria conflict settlement in Geneva the recent round of which kicked off on Tuesday and was expected to last four days. Sisi and King Abdullah pointed out that searching for a political solution to the conflict, which would guarantee the preservation of Syria's territorial integrity remained a priority.

"The parties welcomed an agreement on the establishment of four de-escalation zones in Syria, agreed on in Astana, and reaffirmed support for the efforts aimed at ending the violence and improving the humanitarian situation," the leaders said in a joint statement after the talks.

Civil wars are perhaps the most tragic and bitter, when a country goes to war on itself - and it's brother against brother, homesteads destroyed by other compatriots.

Today, the United States of America seems to be at war with itself again. Not yet an all-out bloodletting as in the Civil War of 1861-65, but nevertheless the nation seems to be plunging into an internecine process of shredding itself, pulling down the very edifice of the state.

There's even reports of married couples splitting in divorce because of the growing political divisions.

The governing business of running the country is held hostage by incessant political scrapping; the institutions of governance appear in meltdown from eroding authority.

The first stage of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to restore America's former dominance as a manufacturing country will be announced this coming weekend in Riyadh Saudi Arabia and Washington DC, but its outlines are now already more than clear. The biggest-ever foreign sale of U.S.-made weaponry will be announced at that time, and, according to a little-noticed report by Reuters on May 12^th, an unidentified U.S. government official informed Reuters that "We are in the final stages of a series of deals", whose size will be of truly extraordinary historic proportions.

Trump will announce during this, his first trip abroad as the U.S. President, starting on Friday May 19^th, deals for the fundamentalist-Sunni government of Saudi Arabia to purchase more than $100 billion, and perhaps more even than $300 billion, in U.S.-made weaponry. The announced intention of Saudi princes is to defeat what they declare to be the 'existential threat' they face from Iran and from Shia Islam, and so these weapons will presumably be used for 'defense' against the fundamentalist-Shiite government of Iran, and against any nation whose leader is Shiite (even if not fundamentalist, and including non-sectarian and even secular Shiite, such as Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad, and such as the Houthis in Yemen).

The U.S. (especially the major investors in corporations such as Lockheed Martin) will therefore be in a position to profit from intensification of the wars in Syria and in Yemen, as well as from other national battlefields between Sunni and Shia. That's the plan, and, on this basis, as soon as Trump won the 2016 election, he appointed to all of his national-security posts people who have solid records as being rabidly hostile, above all, towards Iran, and secondarily, toward Iran's allies, such as Russia and Syria. (Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, was hostile, above all, toward Russia; her aim was to conquer it, which would entail unlimited spending on nuclear weapons. Trump's plan is focused instead on unlimited spending on conventional weapons, and the deal that he has reached with the Sauds is designed specifically to supply them with that — not with nuclear.)

The Washington Post story is everywhere: President Donald Trump allegedly leaked "highly classified" information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a meeting last week.

The White House called it "false," though on Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted that he had the "absolute right" to share information with Russia about "terrorism and airline safety."

The left and the media are ecstatic: they believe they have finally produced irrefutable proof of Trump's incompetence.

One Democratic congresswoman, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), even said: "I believe that the president is desperate for attention and needs psychological help."

Whether Trump shared information or not, the story is less than what it seems — and the hysteria is "fake news." The real story, as Trump later suggested, is who leaked intelligence to the Post.

A display of Israeli-style community policing before an audience of hundreds of young schoolchildren was captured on video last week. Were the 10-year-olds offered road safety tips, advice on what to do if they got lost, or how to report someone suspicion hanging around the school?

No. In Israel, they do things differently. The video shows four officers staging a mock anti-terror operation in a park close to Tel Aviv. The team roar in on motorbikes, firing their rifles at the "terrorist".

As he lies badly wounded, the officers empty their magazines into him from close range. In Israel it is known as "confirming the kill". Everywhere else it is called an extrajudicial execution or murder. The children can be heard clapping.

It was an uncomfortable reminder of a near-identical execution captured on film last year. A young army medic, Elor Azaria, is seen shooting a bullet into the head of an incapacitated Palestinian in Hebron. A military court sentenced him to 18 months for manslaughter in February.

There has been little sign of soul-searching since. Most Israelis, including government officials, call Azaria a hero. In the recent religious festival of Purim, dressing up as Azaria was a favorite among children.

There is plenty of evidence that Israel's security services are still regularly executing real Palestinians.

The Washington Post's publication of sensitive information may have done actual harm to a US allied agent.

States who are publicly opposed to ISIS, often share intelligence on highly confidential matters. It happens between Britain and France, America and Germany, Russia and Syria, China and Russia.

The fact that no one in America has officially declared Russia an enemy state and that Donald Trump has very publicly stated that he would like Russia to be a partner in the fight against ISIS, means that Donald Trump was acting as any leader would do in sharing information with a partner or possible partner.

The fact that many in Congress do not feel Russia is a potential partner is in this specific instance a legal non-issue. I could and indeed have equally complained that the US sharing any intelligence or military know-how with the war criminal regime in Ukraine is against the interests of the US. But this is an individual opinion, not US policy.

Officially Russia is not an enemy state and as President, Donald Trump had every right to privately share intelligence with a potential partner.

To put things in an even more poignant perspective, the US shares intelligence with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, states which are openly supporting violent jihadist groups in Syria. Few if any in the mainstream media have questioned whether this is in the interests of a US population frightened of jihadist attacks.

The fact that a portion of the content from the private meeting between Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was disclosed by the Washington Post means that any liability of any kind arising from such an unauthorised disclosure lies exclusively with the Washington Post.

Nine people were injured, including one seriously, in a brutal fight between supporters and opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, DC.

Footage from the scene shows men in suits viciously attacking a group of anti-Erdogan protesters, pushing them to the ground - men and women alike - and kicking some of them repeatedly in the head. The men in suits, according to media citing eyewitnesses, are members of the Turkish president's security detail.

The protest, which took place during the evening rush hour, hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with President Donald Trump at the White House, shut down Sheridan Circle and the area surrounding the Turkish ambassador's residence.