Latest in Tag: Israel Highlight
Latest in Tag: Israel
Israel changing Arab and Islamic identity of Jerusalem: Fahmy
Foreign minister calls for international resolutions on Jerusalem to be implemented
Fahmy and Abbas discuss peace process
Foreign minister and Palestinian president meet ahead of Al Quds Committee meeting
Kerry downplays Israeli minister’s comments
A diplomatic row erupted between Israel and Washington on Tuesday after Yaalon was quoted as saying Kerry had an “obsession” and a “sense of messianism” about the peace process.
Middle East peace at critical point: Kerry
Fahmy attends Arab Peace Initiative meeting in Paris
Fahmy to meet with Kerry, Friends of Syria in Paris
Egypt’s foreign minister will attend meetings regarding Syria and Palestine and Israel
Ex-Israel PM Sharon dead: Netanyahu’s office
Sharon has been in a coma since January 4, 2006 after suffering a massive stroke.
African asylum seekers protest Israel detention laws
Demonstrators sharply criticised the authorities’ refusal to give them refugee status and their detention of several hundred asylum seekers.
Kerry launches 2014 with all-out bid for Mideast peace
US Secretary of State John Kerry hurtles into 2014 with a trip to the Middle East Wednesday, hoping to make this the year Israel and the Palestinians seal a long-elusive peace deal
Israel hits back after rockets fired from Lebanon
The Israeli government accused the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah of being behind the rocket fire and threatened an even tougher response to any further attacks.
Arab League holds Israel responsible for hindering peace
The Arab League held an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss Palestinian-Israeli negotiations
Israeli troops shoot, wound Gaza Palestinian
Witnesses said the shooting happened when several young Palestinians who were hunting birds approached the security fence separating the territory from Israel and came under fire.
Mansour meets with Abbas to discuss Egypt’s role in peace process
This is Abbas’s third visit to the Egyptian capital since July
Stateless
The return to the homeland can be a tricky thing when you are Palestinian
Israel fire on Lebanon in retaliation for soldier killing
The army said the soldier was shot by Lebanese troops as he was driving a civilian vehicle along a section of the border near Rosh HaNikra on the Mediterranean coast.
Israel, Jordan, Palestinians to sign Red Sea-Dead Sea deal
Some will be desalinated and distributed to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, while the rest will be transferred in four pipes to the parched Dead Sea, which would otherwise dry out by 2050.
Normalisation allegations facing journalists resolved: Press Syndicate
Syndicate says journalists who visited Palestine last month did not violate general assembly measures forbidding normalisation with Israel
Dutch premier’s Israel trip hit by Gaza row
Rutte was to have inaugurated the scanner on the frontier with the Palestinian Islamist-ruled enclave, but the ceremony was put off because of the row.
Role of outside powers in region must change: Fahmy
Foreign Minister calls for all countries in the region to reassess their approach to security
Work on fence separating Egyptian-Israeli border almost done
Egyptian MFA says “the fence is being built on the Israeli side, and that is their business”
Palestine, Israel and The Jewish State
By: Fadi Elhusseini While analyses have abounded examining the details of the “secret” talks and evaluating the positions of the negotiating parties in the Middle East peace process, prominent Israeli writers have intensified their efforts, on “Israel’s imminent existential threat” with much fanfare. Despite the fact that such writers are not officially members of the …
Apple acquires Israeli 3D chip developer PrimeSense
An Apple spokesman confirmed the purchase but declined to say how much it spent. Israeli media said it was about $350 million.
Israel PM says Iran deal ‘historic mistake’
“PM Netanyahu: What was achieved yesterday in Geneva is not a historic agreement but rather a historic mistake,”
US says ‘very hard’ to clinch deal as Iran nuclear talks resume
Major powers resumed talks on a preliminary agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear programme with the US warning it would be “very hard” to clinch a breakthrough deal this week
France ‘will not tolerate’ nuclear proliferation: Hollande
Israel and Western powers suspect Iran’s uranium enrichment programme is part of a covert drive to acquire a nuclear weapons capability, an allegation Tehran vehemently denies.
Egyptian journalists to be investigated for normalisation allegations
Egyptian delegation from the Press Syndicate travel to Ramallah to show solidarity with Palestinian journalists
Palestinian peace negotiators resign over settlements
Shtayyeh held Israel “completely responsible for the failure of negotiations, because of the continuation and escalation of settlement building.”
Israel must avoid spats with US, Lieberman says on return
Israel and the United States have been locked in a war of words over negotiations between world powers and Iran that could see sanctions relaxed in exchange for Tehran curbing or freezing parts of the disputed atomic programme.
Fahmy discusses peace talks with UN coordinator
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy emphasises Egypt’s support for ongoing Israeli-Palestinian talks, condemns ongoing settlement activity
Abbas holds talks with Mansour, Fahmy and Al-Sisi
Chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organisation is in Egypt on a three-day visit
Arab League discusses WMDs at Egypt’s request
Arab nations seek unified stance on ridding the Middle East of WMDs