(AP) JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing this week on the appeal of a Palestinian prisoner waging an unprecedented hunger strike that has stretched for more than two months, court officials and his lawyers said Monday. Adnan Khader, a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group, is demanding he be released immediately. [...]
Thirty years ago, when I was promoted to a new position in the Israeli Defense Forces, I sent all my friends a note promising to do this and that, and more. Most of them responded with “Good luck” or something of the sort, except for one, Uri Talmor, who wrote words that I’ll never forget: [...]
JERUSALEM — The U.S. and Britain on Sunday urged Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear program as the White House’s national security adviser arrived in the region, reflecting growing international jitters that the Israelis are poised to strike. Avalanche survivor ‘in shock’ after 3 die in tragedy TODAY Rocking out to hip hop in the new [...]
A Thai policeman patrolling Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012.
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“I think Israel like everyone else in the world should be giving a real chance to the approach we have adopted on very serious economic sanctions and economic pressure and the readiness to negotiate with Iran. “That’s what we need to make a success of.” Mr Hague said Israel did not share its plans with [...]
Print E-mail By DONNA CASSATA The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Two powerful House Republicans accused President Barack Obama of jeopardizing Israel’s security with a “record low” budget request for a cooperative U.S.-Israeli missile defense program. The election-year claim fails to take into account the billions the administration wants in aid for the Mideast ally and [...]
(AFP) – 1 hour ago TOKYO — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak Saturday called on the world to tighten sanctions on Iran before the country enters a “zone of immunity” against a physical attack to stop its nuclear programme. “We have to accelerate the pace of imposing sanctions,” he told a news conference in Tokyo. [...]
A Palestinian waging a hunger strike for an unprecedented 63 days has appealed to Israel’s Supreme Court, demanding to be released from months-long detention without trial, his lawyer said Saturday. Khader Adnan is fighting a provision that allows Israel to hold detainees for months or even years without trial or formal charges. Israeli officials say [...]
Other government officials, meanwhile, said security concerns forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reroute his plane when he traveled to Cyprus on Thursday. Netanyahu had been scheduled to land at Larnaca airport in Cyprus but touched down instead at an air base at Paphos, in the west of the Mediterranean island.
World Published February 17, 2012 | Associated Press Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet JERUSALEM – A senior Israeli counterterrorism official claimed Friday that Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah are plotting attacks on Israelis overseas and urged travelers to be vigilant. Israel already has accused Iran of being behind three attacks this week on [...]
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Thailand’s acknowledgment that terror attacks were being planned on its soil stood in contrast to its denials of that last month, when police arrested a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to Hezbollah. At the time, authorities insisted Thailand was only being used as a staging ground for attacks, but was not the target. The man [...]
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Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak has called for increased sanctions on Iran, a day after the United States said Tehran is feeling the pressure of international measures meant to push it to stop enriching uranium. Barak said Thursday after meeting his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo that while current sanctions are affecting Iranian officials, more action [...]
Security camera images show three men who Thai police suspect were involved in bomb blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday. Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET: Iran claimed Wednesday that it has taken two major steps toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear [...]
Iran today refused to “accept” or “deny” its role in the bomb attack on an Israeli car in New Delhi but questioned the basis of the allegations, saying it should be left to India to verify the real position. “We are not accepting or denying this (Israeli allegation about Tehran being behind the car [...]
BANGKOK– Israeli officials ramped up accusations Wednesday that Iran was launching covert attack plots, saying “sticky” bombs found in a Thai house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the violence, while Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the allegations [...]
BANGKOK – Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Israel’s defense minister has accused Iran of being behind a bombing in Thailand. Ehud Barak said Tuesday’s explosion in Bangkok “proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror.” He said that [...]
The attack sounded all too familiar. An assassin on a motorcycle reportedly slapped a magnetic bomb on a car on Monday afternoon and rode away as the occupants scrambled to escape the vehicle. Nearly half a dozen similar attacks in Tehran have targeted scientists linked with Iran’s controversial nuclear program in recent years. And Iranian [...]
(AP) JERUSALEM – Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Officials were also trying to determine whether Israelis were the intended target of an Iranian man carrying explosives who blew his own legs off in Bangkok. Authorities in Thailand said the Iranian was [...]
TEL AVIV // During the Egyptian protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak as president last year, Israel worried its critical peace partner would be taken over by Islamist radicals. Now, as another Arab neighbour – Syria – faces escalating bloodshed and turmoil, Israel appears more relaxed about regime change there. The difference? Analysts say Israel doubts [...]
TEL AVIV // During the Egyptian protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak as president last year, Israel worried its critical peace partner would be taken over by Islamist radicals. Now, as another Arab neighbour – Syria – faces escalating bloodshed and turmoil, Israel appears more relaxed about regime change there. The difference? Analysts say Israel doubts [...]
<!– Share Email Print –> Tweet Share Email Print Google+ Facebook Gun is only way to fight Israel, Hamas head says February 13, 2012 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The “gun is our only response to the Zionist regime,” [...]
<!– Share Email Print –> Tweet Share Email Print Google+ Facebook Gun is only way to fight Israel, Hamas head says February 13, 2012 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The “gun is our only response to the Zionist regime,” [...]
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:33am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Bombers targeted staff at Israel’s embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement. The New Delhi bomb wrecked a vehicle with diplomatic plates and [...]
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:33am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Bombers targeted staff at Israel’s embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement. The New Delhi bomb wrecked a vehicle with diplomatic plates and [...]
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A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than eight weeks is being kept shackled to a hospital bed by the Israeli authorities, despite warnings that he may be close to death. Khader Adnan, 33, has been held without charge under “administrative detention” since mid-December. The Israeli military authorities have refused to [...]
The hardline remarks come as Iran watches with concern attempts by Hamas to move closer to wealthy Gulf Arab states. Widened support for Hamas in the Arab world may come with demands that the Islamist movements moderate and not embarrass its new patrons. Israel and Iran consider each other archenemies. Israel has not ruled out [...]
(AFP) – 7 hours ago TEHRAN — Hamas “will never recognise Israel,” Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniya, said Saturday in a speech in Iran that is likely to complicate Palestinian efforts to form a unity government in the teeth of opposition from the Jewish state. “They want us to recognise the Israeli occupation and cease [...]
Adnan’s health has deteriorated since December 30, which prompted Israeli prison officials to move him to a hospital facility. Although he has refused treatment from Israeli doctors, he has been allowed to meet with representatives of the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights, which in a statement expressed “grave concern” about his medical condition, [...]
The saber rattling and war mongering over Iran’s quest for nuclear arms is reaching a fever pitch. Israeli officials like Defense Minister Ehud Barak talk of the necessity of striking Iran before it reaches a “zone of immunity” by further dispersing and burying more of its nuclear facilities under impregnable carapaces of concrete. The strikes [...]
As we are faced with the imminent threat of Israel’sattacking Iran, pro-Israeli lobbying groups are putting pressure on President Barack Obama and the Congress to support such an attack. Israel would attack in the name of protecting its security, but at the end of the day, her security lies in peace — a peace derived [...]
You don’t need to visit Sheldon Adelson’s casinos in order to bet that the Israel Defense Forces will not be sent on a large military operation against Iran – “not at this time,” as politicians would quickly add. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Winston Churchill from Jerusalem, has not started to prepare either his country [...]
Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel declared a Friday test of its Arrow weapon system a “major milestone” in the development of a system to defend against medium range missiles that could be fired from countries like Iran. In a statement the Israeli Defense Ministry said the test “provides confidence in operational Israeli capabilities to defeat the [...]
The Middle East continued its slide into chaos this week. Hamas and Fatah reached agreement on a new Palestinian unity government to be headed by current P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas until new elections are held later this year. The United States closed its embassy in Damascus, Syria, amid the deteriorating situation in that country. Riots [...]
In Israel various attacks on Arabs nothing is ever Israel’s fault. The victims are always to blame or, some third party. Israeli politicians become very adept (in their oen minds) at evading and dodging responsibility for anything. When Israel has a doemstic issue that requires pinning some blame then all these politicians go into auto [...]
Mehdi Marizad / Fars via AP file A car that was bombed by two assailants on a motorcycle in Tehran on Jan. 11, killing Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahamdi Roshan, is removed by a mobile crane. The photo was distributed by the semi-official Iranian photo agency Fars. By Richard Engel and Robert WindremNBC News Deadly [...]
By Tova Cohen JERUSALEM | Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:17am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – When Sam Glassenberg, a former gaming division manager at Microsoft, began to advocate building a games industry in Israel, he found support from Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), a venture capital firm focused on digital media technologies. Today Glassenberg is CEO of [...]
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan on Wednesday presented a plan to change Israel’s governing system criticizing the excessive power of minority groups on politicians. “The system must be changed now, we need a prime minister who will not be subject to political pressures when deciding on such issues as an attack on Iran or a [...]
JERUSALEM | Wed Feb 8, 2012 8:58am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s main labour union declared a strike on Wednesday that shut airports, ports, banks and the stock market after talks with the government failed to produce an agreement on the status of workers employed through labour contractors. The Histadrut labour federation, the umbrella organisation [...]
His move was welcomed cautiously by a broad range of Palestinians who are fed up with the brutal split at the heart of their national movement. It promised to upend Israeli-Palestinian relations, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning Mr. Abbas that he could have peace with Israel or unity with Hamas, but not both. The [...]
“Everything that is happening [in Syria] every day is reason for us to re-examine the situation, closely follow the developments and make decisions as necessary,” Nechushtan said. Incoming Air Force Chief Major General Emir Eshel told a recent press conference: “The question is when, not if [Assad will fall]. And the big question is what [...]
(For more Bloomberg View, click on VIEW GO.) Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — On Sept. 4, 2003, three Israeli air force F-15s flew low over the gates of the former death camp at Auschwitz. On the ground — on the train tracks, in fact, leading to the gas chambers — a delegation of Israeli military officers [...]
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AP Feb. 1, 2012: President Barack Obama holds up a proposed mortgage application form as he speaks at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the [...]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday took a decisive step toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant Hamas, agreeing to head an interim unity government that would prepare for elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The announcement immediately threw Mideast peace efforts into turmoil. By moving closer to Hamas, the Palestinian leader appeared to [...]
Israel has not and is not interfering in the political crisis in Syria, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Sunday, adding that he did not think radical Islam would take over the country in case Syrian President Bashar Assad is ousted. Ya’alon’s comments came as Russia and China vetoed on [...]
In a report issued Sunday, Human Rights Watch called on Israel to lift restrictions on residency, saying they are often arbritrary and violate international and human rights law, including the right to family life. “The result has been to split families apart, to arbitrarily ban people from moving around and to arbitrarily prevent a large [...]