Anti-Israel activists are asking MPs to lobby Home Secretary Theresa May in an attempt to have Israel’s Justice Minister and chief peace negotiator Tzipi Livni banned from Britain, reports The Jewish Chronicle . Livni is due to speak in London
Britain and America are investigating claims that the Syrian government has carried out a series of new chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus, according to The Times of London. British officials said yesterday that they were “aware of multiple
Hezbollah is facing an economic crisis stemming from expenditures on the Syrian civil war, budget cuts in Iran resulting from President Hassan Rouhani’s austerity policies, and tightening of fund transfers by American and European authorities, according to a report cited
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry placed most of the blame on Israel for the recent crisis in peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian delegations during a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday, reports Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. Kerry implied that
Following last week’s unraveling of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian delegations, Palestinian officials have unleashed statements sure to be seen as inflammatory and anti-Semitic. Speaking to the PA-based Safa news agency, Sufian Abu Zaida, a senior member of PA
Senior Israeli defense officials said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime used chemical weapons in two attacks in Damascus 10 days ago, according to a report in The Times of Israel. Officials said that the chemical agents used in
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that his Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite group was behind a blast that targeted Israeli troops on the border between the two countries last month. “Yes, the explosion in the Shebaa Farms that Hezbollah has not
As John Kerry and Barack Obama’s Middle East peace initiative goes through its death throes, reams of obituaries are already being written. Already, many are concluding that the cause of death was a breach of the terms of the negotiations
Facing the prospect of seeing his own Middle East peace initiative crumble, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry publicly begged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to rescue his own peace process. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Kerry “made a public appeal
Fast-moving developments in the Middle East peace process veered toward a breakdown Wednesday, reported The Jerusalem Post. The latest crisis emerged after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas defied the United States and Israel by taking concrete steps to join 15
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official said Friday that Israel has told the PA it will not go through with the previously-scheduled fourth and final release of terrorists which had been set for Saturday night. “The Israeli government has informed
An Amman appellate court announced last week that a woman who does not cover up or wear a hijab is considered a “slut” and shouldn’t be allowed to testify in court, reports Albawada. The Amman Sharia Court of Appeals accepted
A possible coalition crisis was brewing in Israel on Tuesday over an emerging deal to continue Palestinian participation in peace talks, reports The Jerusalem Post. The deal reportedly includes an Israeli obligation to release 400 more Palestinian prisoners and a
Iran has named Hamid Aboutalebi, a militant who helped hold 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, to be its next ambassador to the United Nations, reports Bloomberg. Aboutalebi, Iran’s former ambassador to Belgium and Italy, was a member of the
Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia lead the world in documented executions, according to the latest global report from Amnesty International. According to Amnesty, China executed more people than the rest of the world put together, but the data on the
The Arab League announced on Wednesday complete support for a Palestinian refusal to meet Israel’s demand to be recognised as a Jewish state, a condition Jerusalem says is required for peace, reports the Jerusalem Post. “We express our total rejection
Talks between the world powers and Iran notwithstanding, Israel appears to be preparing for a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities as indicated by a specific military budget item of $3 billion, reports Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. The budgeting details were revealed
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) debated five anti-Israel resolutions on Monday, including a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli business in the West Bank and in eastern Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Post reported. The resolution calls on member
A court in Egypt convicted 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and sentenced them to death on charges of murdering a policeman and attacking police. The verdicts followed one of the largest mass trials in the country in decades.
The Obama administration is reportedly increasingly concerned that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are on the brink of collapse, and is working to find a solution that would allow the talks to continue beyond the April deadline marking the end of
Earlier this week, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon made comments ripping into the Obama administration for projecting dangerous weakness in American foreign policy. The next day, Washington ripped right back into Ya’alon for undermining the U.S.-Israel relationship. Was either side
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said nuclear talks with six world powers this week in Vienna were “very successful” in terms of clarifying the issues involved, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. “In terms of understanding and
The Obama administration pushed back hard against Israel’s Defence Minister Tuesday for comments critical of the President’s projection of “weakness” in the face of world events. In a blistering personal attack reported Wednesday in Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, the administration accused Defence Minister
In a wide-ranging discussion reported in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, Israel’s plain-speaking defence minister Moshe Ya’alon said Monday that Tehran has the upper hand in nuclear negotiations, and dismissed the idea of Israeli dependence on the United States to lead an
Syrian snipers are intentionally targeting children with the intent to paralyze them, reports The Times of Israel. The paediatric intensive care unit of Israel’s Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya has treated 25 seriously injured Syrian children since last July, delivered to
