by Ami Teibel, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary Israel is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an effort to halt intensified rocket attacks on Israel’s south, according to defense officials. With Israeli elections two months away, rocket barrages from Gaza […]
Huffingtonpost In the Footsteps of Jesus, published by National Geographic Books, is the culmination of a very personal 15-year quest for the historical Jesus. As both a historian and practicing […]
Source: TOI: Israel’s army fired tank shells into Syria on Monday and scored “direct hits” in response to a Syrian mortar shell that struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, the Israeli military said in a statement. JERUSALEM: Israel’s army fired tank shells into Syria on Monday and scored “direct hits” in […]
Source: NY Times op ed By Thomas Friedman ISRAELI friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be […]
The Vancouver Sun Get used to it. Christmas is coming to a store near you, if it hasn’t already arrived. And right behind will be the annual argument over whether […]
ARAB NEWS WASHINGTON: World leaders have hailed US President Barack Obama’s sweeping re-election, with allies pledging to deepen cooperation with the US on fighting the world economic slump and maintaining security across the globe. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman congratulated Obama and wished […]
Source: Asia times: WASHINGTON – A new twist was added to the long-running media theme of a threat by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to war with Iran when news stories seemed to suggest that Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to prepare for an imminent attack on […]
Lost tribe’s immigration to resume after five years The Times of Israel: The government has quietly decided to approve, after a five-year hiatus, continued immigration of the Bnei Menashe, a […]
theguardian: Julian Borger. Israeli and Iranian officials are taking part in a nuclear non-proliferation meeting in Brussels on Monday, in the hope of paving the way for a full international conference in the next few months on banning nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East. […]
Al Jazeera: Tunnels 15 metres beneath Jerusalem’s Old City threaten to penetrate the Temple Mount, home to the Al Aqsa mosque. In the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City – the […]
The Israel Today: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last week said it was time for Israel to finally implement true religious freedom and allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. […]
Will an Israeli strike on Iran come from Azerbaijan? Global Post: Israel needs help to strike Iran. They may have found one in neighboring Azerbaijan. Michael Moran he standoff between […]
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The Iranians and their Hizbullah ally are sending warning signals about how they might fight a future war with the United States and Israel. The signals aren’t subtle—Tehran intends to retaliate for any attack on its nuclear facilities with blows against America’s allies in the region, hitting their most sensitive […]
RT: A military strike on Iran by way of Israel could still occur at a moment’s notice, but the US is now warning its allies that any action overseas would jeopardize America’s ability to assist in a Middle East war. Although US President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney […]
LONDON: ARAB NEWS Friday 2 November 2012 Israel has for the first time admitted assassinating the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad, in a raid on the movement’s […]
Source: The Guardian Guardian: US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against […]
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday said he wanted “concrete acts” from Iran to prove it was not pursuing nuclear arms, after his first direct meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Addressing a press conference with Netanyahu, whose aim during the two-day visit is to press for […]
Kinerette Rinat BenSimon remembers well the last time there was trouble on the northern border with Lebanon. (Source MSN News – http://arabia.msn.com/news/world/508946/praying-for-peace-preparing-for-war/) Her young daughter was terrified and refused to hide in her kindergarten’s bomb shelter unless her mother was there. Her three-year-old son was ecstatic that there were so […]
RAMALLAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 31 October 2012 Criminal investigators from France will exhume Yasser Arafat’s remains next month to try to find out how the Palestinian leader died, a French official said yesterday. The official said the team from France would arrive sometime between Nov. 24 and Nov. 26 in […]