JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister warned on Tuesday of a possible Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear program and rejected suggestions the Jewish state would be devastated by an Iranian counterattack. Ehud Barak spoke a day before the United Nations’ nuclear agency was expected to release a critical report on […]
BEIRUT: Lebanese refugees in Israel reportedly threatened to resort to international courts if the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati failed to grant them amnesty. A report published Tuesday by pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat said the few hundred Lebanese families residing in Israel since the end of the 1990 Civil War […]
ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press – 1 hour ago PARIS (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has labored to improve French relations with Israel, said he “can’t stand” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called him a liar in a chat with President Barack Obama. The conversation between Sarkozy and […]
JERUSALEM | Mon Nov 7, 2011 12:48am EST Nov 7 (Reuters) – Israel’s main labour union declared a general strike on Monday, shutting down major sectors of the country’s economy, but a labour court intervened issuing an injunction that limited the strike to just four hours, officials said. The Histadrut […]
The inference was clear: The Israeli Air Force was strengthening its cooperation with Western allies in preparation for a NATO assault on Iran. Read more: http://macromon.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/is-iran-about-to-get-hot/#ixzz1cwGPj1ic
he Jerusalem Light Railway has provided the ancient city with new travel possibilities since it opened in August, but it is also proving controversial. The borders in Jerusalem are invisible, and to an outsider barely perceptible. If you did not know they were there, you might – on a fleeting […]
RAMALLAH (Reuters) – The Palestinians will not accept anything less than full United Nations membership and do not want an upgrade to an observer state in the world body, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Riyad Al Malki’s remarks suggested the Palestinians would not seek such an upgrade once their […]
The infantile response from the US and Israel to the decision by UNESCO to give full membership to Palestine is astounding. The Israelis have frozen the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority, worth about $100 million a month, and say they will speed up settlements in the West Bank […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/GENEVA (Agencies) – Israel is to build some 2,000 new settler housing units in annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank in response to a UNESCO decision to admit Palestine as a full member, a senior official said Tuesday. The decision was taken at a meeting of Prime Minister […]
By AMY TEIBEL | AP ARAB NEWS JERUSALEM: The Palestinian president, in a remarkable assessment delivered on Israeli TV, has said the Arab world erred in rejecting the United Nations’ 1947 plan to partition Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state. The Palestinian and Arab refusal to accept a […]
AsGilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas more than five years ago, was finally released in a vast prisoner exchange, it made me think about the relentless pursuit of his release by Israel. Such a pursuit by one’s family is both natural and understandable. Yet, not only was his […]
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization set to vote on Palestinian membership in organization as part of general conference in Paris Ronen Medzini The Palestinian bid for statehood may have been postponed to November but the coming days may see progress for the PA’s campaign. The United Nations Educational, […]
Authorities find source that leaked every Israeli’s personal information online Former Welfare Ministry employee who had access to the Population Registry stole the details in 2006 and passed them on to a business client, after which it made rounds until it was finally uploaded onto the internet. By Tomer Zarchin […]
Medieval Crusading and the War on Terror As the never-ending war on terror enters its second decade, commentators and opinion continue to seek insight from the medieval crusades, when European Christian armies marched to the Middle East to make war against Muslim adversaries. To the casual observer, the crusades would […]
Israel PM ‘ready to partially freeze West Bank building if it brings Palestinians back to talks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ready partially to freeze West Bank settlement building if it will bring Palestinians back to direct talks, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. But the Palestinians said they […]
(Xinhua) — Egypt and Israel are expected to soon ink a swap deal in which 19 detained Egyptians, including three children, in Israel, will be exchanged for an Israeli-U.S. dual national held in Egypt, official MENA news agency said on Saturday. But state-run Nile TV said on Saturday 28 Egyptian […]
By Hossam Ezzedine Agence France-Presse JORDAN TIMES NABI SALEH, Palestinian Territories – Nizar Tamimi has only seen his fiancée Ahlam once, when she visited him in prison shortly before she was sentenced to life in jail for assisting a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Their families feared they would never start […]
By Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post TEL NOF AIR FORCE BASE, Israel — Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned to Israel Tuesday morning after five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip, gaunt and frail-looking but apparently healthy. His release by the militant Palestinian group Hamas launched a prisoner swap that ultimately […]