Latest in Tag: Israel Highlight
Latest in Tag: Israel
Israel closes Golan zone adjacent to Syria
Rebels in southern Syria set up earlier this year the so-called Southern Front, including some 30,000 fighters from more than 55 mainstream rebel groups, and have claimed successes, notably in Quneitra.
Israeli FM Lieberman slams Arab Israelis over Nakba protest
Around 10,000 protesters, many waving Palestinian flags, joined a rally in northern Israel on Tuesday to remember 530 villages from which some 760,000 people fled or were expelled following the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.
Joint Egypt-Palestine committee calls for end of âIsraeli siege on Gazaâ
This is the first time the committee has convened in nine years and comes ahead of talks at the level of the foreign ministers
Hamas won’t recognise Israel, accept Quartet terms
AFP – Hamas will never recognise Israel and will not accept the conditions laid out by the Middle East peacemaking Quartet, according to the Islamist movement’s deputy leader. Speaking late on Saturday, Mussa Abu Marzuq said Hamas, which recently signed a reconciliation deal with the Western-backed Palestinian leadership in the occupied West Bank, would never …
Rafah border crossing opens for two days
Egyptian authorities open the crossing for humanitarian cases upon Palestineâs request
Israel cabinet divided over Palestinian unity deal
Wednesdayâs surprise deal was denounced the next day by the Israeli security cabinet
Palestinian unity government will reject violence: Abbas
The new unity government he is set to head with the backing of Hamas would reject violence and recognise Israel and existing agreements, Abbas says
Palestinians play down threat to dismantle Authority
Palestinian negotiators had warned that they may hand responsibility for governing the occupied territories back to Israel if peace talks remain stalled,
Fahmy and Fatah discuss negotiations and Palestinian reconciliation
Foreign minister meets Fatah member ahead of renewed Palestinian reconciliation efforts
Fahmy presses Arab League chief on activating terrorism convention
Foreign minister and Arab League Secretary General discuss terrorism and regional issues
Israel, Palestinian peace meet postponed after killing
Israelâs army and police were still hunting for the suspected gunman on Wednesday, after carrying out extensive searches around Idhna.
Israel minister warns Kerry over âsurrenderâ to Iran
AFP- Israelâs intelligence minister Monday slammed as unacceptable comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry on negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme which he said indicated a âsurrenderâ to Tehran. âThe things Kerry said in the Congress are worrying, they are surprising and they are unacceptable,â Yuval Steinitz, who is also strategic affairs …
Israeli gas holds promise of better ties with neighbours
Israel in talks with Egypt, Turkey on major gas export deals
Athletes and artists show Gaza still occupied
Recent cases involving athletes and musicians show how much Gaza is still under Israeli occupation By Hussein Ibish, Now I recently participated in a debate in New York City where two noted American pro-Israel advocates, Rabbi Shmuely Boteach and Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, both kept insisting that there is no Israeli occupation in Gaza. Tell …
Jewish settlers attack Israel soldiers for second night
Rosenfeld said there had been no casualties but that two settlers had later been arrested.
Fahmy and Abbas meet ahead of emergency Arab League meeting
Abbas and Fahmy discussed the ongoing final status negotiations and the âobstaclesâ involved in the process
8 injured as Israeli forces clear illegal settlement
Israel has moved to demolish âwildcatâ settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, which normally consist of a few makeshift dwellings set up by extremist Jewish settlers on Palestinian territory.
Divergence in MENA sovereign energy importer-exporter ratings widens: Fitch
Reuters – Fitch Ratings says in a new report that the average sovereign ratings of energy exporters and importers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have further diverged in 2014, following the upgrade of Saudi Arabia (to AA). Credit fundamentals across the energy exporters are expected to remain strong, driven by triple digit …
Kerry scrambles to save his torpedoed peace effort
The top US diplomat, who has made the quest for a long-elusive peace treaty his personal holy grail, was blindsided late Tuesday as minutes before a press conference at the NATO headquarters, both sides went rogue.
Jailed Israeli spy could be key to peace talks
A source close to the talks said on Tuesday that there was a proposal which could see Pollard freed before the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins mid-April.
Netanyahu slams UN rights councilâs censure of Israel
The motions on the Palestinians were carried by 46 votes to one, with only the United States against, while the Golan resolution garnered 13 abstentions and a US ânoâ vote.
Arab summit to back rejection of âJewish stateâ: Draft
The summit stresses a âcategorical rejectionâ of the demand for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, according to a draft statement endorsed by foreign ministers.
35 nations sign up to tougher nuclear security standards
Obama has made improving nuclear safety one of the figurehead foreign policies of his presidency and said in 2009 that nuclear terrorism was âthe most immediate and extreme threat to global securityâ.
UN rapporteur accuses Israel of âethnic cleansingâ
By Dr Cesar Chelala Richard Falk, United Nations rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories accused Israel last week of âethnic cleansingâ of Palestinians. Speaking at a press conference, he said that Israeli policies bore âunacceptable characteristics of colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansingâ. âEvery increment of enlarging the settlements or every incident of house demolition is a …
Egyptian army meets with Israeli side during tri-annual meeting
Meeting concerns military communication, sale of Apache helicopters
Palestinians protest Jerusalem marathon
Police arrested four of them and dispersed the rest âwith ease,â she said, adding that the race had âcontinued as normalâ.
Three Palestinians killed in Israeli West Bank raid
The Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers entered the camp in the northern West Bank city to arrest Hamza Abu Alheja, 20, a member of the military wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
Israel bombs Syria army targets after Golan attack
The Syrian army said the air strikes killed one soldier and wounded seven, cautioning that the assault endangered âthe security and stability of the regionâ.
Israel strikes kill one, ‘threaten region’s security’: Syria
AFP–Â Israeli air raids on Syria on Wednesday killed one person and injured seven, Syria’s army said, warning that the strikes endangered regional security and stability. In a statement, the army command warned that “these desperate attempts… endanger the security and stability of the region.”
Fahmy and Kerry discuss Middle East peace
Obama and Abbas meet in Washington as negotiations deadline looms