In a stunning five minute statement read on state television late Friday, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, leader of Israel’s oldest and most implacable foe, called the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza a “collective massacre” caused by Hamas. It is just the
The UN’s top human rights official again condemned Israel for its military actions to stop Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, accusing the Jewish state of “deliberately defying International Law… in a way that may constitute war crimes.” Navi Pillay
Reeling from President Obama’s Sunday call for an “immediate unconditional ceasefire” in its war against Hamas, a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government told Israeli Army Radio that Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry should “leave us alone
The ferocity of Friday’s unanimous rejection by the Israeli government of Secretary of State John Kerry’s cease was kept quiet to prevent a formal rupture of relations between the two erstwhile allies, reports Israel’s Channel 2 Television. The popular and
When President Obama announced on Monday that he had dispatched Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East in order that he “do everything he can to help facilitate a cessation to hostilities” between the terror group Hamas and
Speaking to reporters as he welcomed former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, where he arrived aboard an El Al flight, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ban all
Anticipating an imminent ban by the FAA of all U.S. flights to Israel, Delta, United, and US Airways each canceled all outbound flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport until further notice. Delta Flight 468, one of its two
Convinced that their region has suffered as much Obama administration meddling as it can possibly stand, Israel and Egypt took the extraordinary step earlier this week of jointly rejecting requests by US Secretary of State John Kerry to involve himself
The United States Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, told Israeli TV Saturday night that his country will work to restore Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority to power in Gaza after Israel’s current military operation against Hamas is successfully completed. Appearing on
The United Nations Relief Works Agency, the organization of the world body dedicated solely to Palestinian ‘refugees,’ announced that the 20 Hamas terror rockets found hidden inside a UNWRA run school on Thursday have been returned to Hamas. In its
Ron Dermer, Israel’s new Ambassador to the United States, claims that Israel is fighting not just a war against Hamas, but a larger war against the growing moral impairment of what used to be called the civilized world; not just to
Just a day after media reports warned that no progress was being made in negotiations between the P5+1 alliance of Western nations and Iran regarding that nation’s illegal nuclear weapons program, US Secretary of State John Kerry cited significant progress
In a stunning rebuke of President Obama’s tepid calls for Israel to show “restraint” in response to daily rocket fire on Israeli civilian targets by Hamas terror redoubts in Gaza, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, long considered Israel’s best friend
With the controversial, six-month “interim” nuclear deal between Iran and the group of Western powers known as the P5+1 formally expiring a week from Sunday, western diplomats, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, are gathering in Vienna for what
As Israel prepares to mount yet another offensive operation to defend its civilian populations from renewed terrorist rocket and mortar fire from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, the world’s media trots out its predictable language of moral equivalence to describe what
Mahmoud Abbas, currently in the tenth year of his four-year term as president of the U.S. taxpayer-funded Palestinian Authority, took to his Facebook early Wednesday to praise the terrorist rocket attacks upon Israeli cities and towns by his “unity government”
Speaking to The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg, Martin Indyk, the former U.S. envoy to the Israel-Palestinian peace process, claims there were many reasons the talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaderships failed, not least of which was the fact that Palestinian Authority
The recent landslide election of India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not only raised the expectations of Indians anxious to ignite an economic boom on the subcontinent, but also the hopes of anxious neighbors looking to Deli to provide
Hundreds of Palestinian protesters have been rampaging through the streets of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shu’afat since early morning Wednesday following news that the burned body of 16 year Palestinian teenager Muhhamad Abu Khdeir had been found in the
On the front page of Monday’s The New York Times, published just hours before the bodies of three missing Israeli teens were found murdered and partially buried in a field outside Hebron, a story by Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren
Late Monday, Israelis were formally informed that their worst and growing fears about the fate of three kidnapped teens were confirmed. The bodies of the three teens kidnapped while traveling home from school of June 12 were found about 5:00
This weekend’s centenary anniversary of the assassination of Austrian Archduke Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia–then a province of the doomed Austro-Hungarian empire–marked the event that triggered the greatest, most horrible occurrence of all time up to that point: World War
Claiming it could no longer abide the Obama administration’s five-year refusal to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to bring 830,000 barrels a day of much-needed Alberta shale oil to U.S. refineries, the Canadian government recently approved plans
How could a force of less than 15,000 fighters overrun a lavishly equipped modern army 20 times its size with no outside help? In the case of ISIS, the answer is that it could not, and did not, overrun Sunni
Though last Friday’s suicide bombing failed to kill or injure its suspected target, General Abbas Ibrahim, leader of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate who was traveling through a busy checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway, it did kill two people and injure
