Latest in Tag: Israel Highlight
Latest in Tag: Israel
Iran announces nuclear-powered vessel capabilities
Iranian authorities arrest suspects for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Arab League offers Al-Assad exit option
Fighting rages on in major cities as military claims to regain control.
Anger over comments by Tarek El-Zomor
Suleiman grandson set to sue Gama’a al-Islamiyya for their statements on his grandfather Omar Suleiman.
Israel accuses Iran of Bulgaria bus bombing
The Bulgarian authorities say a suicide bomber caused explosion and have already released a photo of the suspect
Regional Briefs: Iraq, UAE, Israel, Yemen, Somalia
Iraq An adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said the recently defected Syrian Ambassador to Iraq made a confession of complicity in regards to several attacks launched by Al-Qaeda within Iraq some years ago, according to the BBC. The former Syrian Ambassador, Nawaf Fares, told media sources that his government had formed an …
Clinton fears Sinai will be a terrorist base
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is worried for the safety of Americans, Egyptians and Israelis should Sinai become a terrorist base
Clinton in Israel
US Secretary of State visits crucial US ally for the first time in two years
Israeli forces kill ‘unarmed Gazan’ on Egypt border
Israeli border police killed a man and wounded another when the two tried to cross the Egyptian border into Israel
Israel deploys ‘Iron Dome’ on border with Egypt
The battery of rocket interceptors are aimed at responding to an incoming attack and are already in place on the Israeli border with Gaza
Israeli strikes kill one in Gaza
An attack earlier in the day on a Hamas compound east of Gaza city left three injured
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News updates on Congo, Israel, Palestine and Jordan
Law to force Ultra-Orthodox in Israel to serve in military
Process of revising exemption laws threatens to dissolve ruling coalition
Yasser Arafat’s body to be exhumed
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Wednesday to exhume former leader Yasser Arafat’s remains following allegations that he was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium-210 in 2004. “President Mahmoud Abbas has issued orders to the committee investigating President Yasser Arafat’s martyrdom to follow up on all new information and reports regarding this issue and to …
Israel deports migrants
Israel pushes ahead with the deportation of migrants to several African countries
UK report: Israel forces Palestinian children into ‘spiral of injustice’
Israel is in breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children by violating the rights of Palestinian children according to report backed by the United Kingdom Foreign Office
Egypt’s foreign policy set to change
Morsi’s stance on Iran just a few hours before he became president must certainly make Israel, which has been pressuring the US to confront Iran, uncomfortable.
On rare Israel trip, Putin talks Syria, Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Israeli leaders on a rare trip to Jerusalem for discussions that focused on continuing violence in Syria and Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.
Protests in Israel
Israel’s social justice movement attempts to bring back last summer’s tent cities
Rockets continue to rain down on Gaza
Three days of Israeli air strikes on Gaza
African migrants flood Israel after perilous treks
African migrants arrive in Israel after a dangerous trip through Sinai.
Biggest hurdles remain before East Med gas bonanza
Newly discovered gas reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean encourage regional tensions and slow down their development.
To normalize or not to normalize with Israelis?
By Tahseen Yaqeen RAMALLAH: Toward the end of January a group of young Palestinians held a silent demonstration in front of the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah, demanding that their leadership halt the negotiations that were taking place in Amman between the Palestinian Authority’s representative Saeb Erekat and Israeli chief negotiator Yitzhak Molcho. This small …
Barak says Israel never ruled out attacking Iran
Aron Heller / AP JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday his country has never promised the United States it would hold off from attacking Iran while nuclear talks were taking place. The comments, in which Barak said that a diplomatic push to reach a compromise with Iran was a waste of “precious time,” …
Israel steps up campaign for convicted spy
By Josef Federman / AP JERUSALEM: Israel is ratcheting up calls on Washington to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, in a campaign that has reopened a long-running feud with its closest and most important ally. Israeli leaders say that after 27 years the former civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy should be freed. But the …
Why ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ J Street still matters
By Moriel Rothman JERUSALEM: Recently, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” American organization J Street held its third annual conference in Washington, DC. Many on the American Jewish left have been increasingly critical of J Street, either for shifting to the right, or for failing to bring about any meaningful developments in terms of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Some of …
Israeli historian: Israel needs borders for its own good
By Ben Lynfield JERUSALEM: With international attention distracted by Iran and Syria, Israel’s fateful entanglement in the West Bank hardly gets a mention in the news these days. Over the years, much has been written about the now 45-year-old Occupation’s deleterious effect on Palestinians. But in a significant new book, The Unmaking of Israel, launched recently …
Israeli lawmaker backs Suleiman as Egypt leader
By AP JERUSALEM: An Israeli lawmaker with close ties to the ousted Egyptian regime says former spy chief Omar Suleiman would be the best president for Egypt in terms of Israeli interests. Legislator Binyamin Ben-Eliezer says a Muslim Brotherhood leader would threaten Israel’s 1979 peace deal with Egypt. Ben-Eliezer told Army Radio on Monday that …
Pilgrims fill Jerusalem for Good Friday, Passover
By AFP JERUSALEM: Christians and Jews in the Holy Land were set to begin marking their most important festivals of the year on Friday, with Good Friday and the Jewish holiday of Passover coinciding. Jewish families were completing last-minute preparations for Passover, which begins at sundown and commemorates the Israelite’s exodus from slavery in Egypt, …
German author Grass says Israel endangers world peace
By Gareth Jones/Reuters Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has described Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be allowed to launch military strikes against Iran, in a poem that led one German newspaper to brand him “the eternal anti-Semite”. Grass, 84, a seasoned campaigner for left-wing causes and a critic …
Egypt denies rocket was fired from Sinai
By Agencies CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Egypt denied in an official statement Thursday that the rocket that slammed into the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat was fired from the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian officials said publicly that the attack was not staged from Sinai. Mahmud al-Hifnawy, south Sinai’s security chief told AFP there had been no attack from …