Tag: Avigdor Liberman

HERZLIYA, Israel — Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday morning: “We will not allow Iran to transform Syria into forward base against Israel.”

With the Israeli political scene galloping toward a snap vote, State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan launched a fierce defense of the justice system on Sunday, warning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that victory at the ballot box would not clear his name of serious corruption allegations.

Abbas expects President Trump to disregard his statements and continue to bankroll his terror-supporting regime in the name of “the peace process,” just as Bush and Obama did.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday said the Hamas terror group had conducted rocket-launching experiments overnight, with the group preferring continued investment in war than in the well-being of the Gaza Strip’s population.

In a thinly veiled threat directed at Syria, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned that any future provocation against Israel from its northern neighbors would end “very badly” for them.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avidgor Liberman said Monday that Israel will not initiate a attack against Syria in the near future, rejecting intense speculation that the next round of conflict is on the horizon.

TEL AVIV – With the endorsement of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, lawmakers on Sunday submitted a proposal to strip Arab Israeli terrorists of their citizenship in response to Friday’s terror attack in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas on Sunday thanked North Korea for its support of the group’s war against the “Zionist entity,” saying that Israel was “the leader of evil and terrorism in the world.”

US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Friday said Iran is sticking to the terms of the nuclear deal, adding that the 2015 agreement between the Islamic Republic and world powers “still stands and that’s all I can say about it.”

JERUSALEM, Israel — Israel’s security diplomatic cabinet on Sunday discussed ways to help Syrian children wounded in a chemical weapons attack last week in the town of Idlib.

Hamas’ prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh vowed “divine punishment”on Saturday for the assassins of military wing operative Mazen Faqha last week, and said his group was preparing “radical measures” against Palestinians caught collaborating with Israel.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday said the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula do not pose a “serious threat” to Israel.

Israel will fight its next war “with full force,” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday, adding that the Israeli army will not stop fighting the next conflict until its enemy surrenders completely.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman this week called on the Palestinian residents of Gaza to overthrow their Hamas rulers, promising that Israeli support and assistance for Gazan civilians will be forthcoming if the terror group is uprooted.

Contents: Syria says that Israel bombed al-Mazzeh military airport near Damascus; Israel’s motive was probably to prevent weapons from reaching Hezbollah

Hamas has issued new safety guidelines to its operatives around the world, following the assassination of a Tunisian engineer said to have led Hamas’s drone program — an incident the Palestinian terror group has blamed on Israel.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday branded an upcoming Middle East peace conference in Paris as a “tribunal against the State of Israel” and compared it to the Dreyfus Affair, one of the seminal anti-Semitic events of modern times.

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja M. Asif threatened Israel late Friday night, following a fake news report from the websiteAWD, stating that Israel’s defense minister was threatening to destroy Pakistan.

TEL AVIV – Israel will respond with “full force” to any attacks from the Islamic State, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said following Sunday’s clash between IDF troops and members of the terror group along the border with Syria.

Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting brush fires have confessed to the crimes, police reportedly told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday

JERUSALEM – Israel is plotting to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just as it murdered PLO chief Yasser Arafat, members of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have claimed.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s on Monday reportedly said the bodies of two Israeli soldiers being held by Hamas would remain in the Gaza Strip, as he opposed negotiations with the terrorist group. His office later denied that he had made the comments.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man has been fired from his job for the crime of saving the Jewish children of a West Bank rabbi after the latter was killed in a terror attack.

Defense Minister and Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman met today with Michael Gross, a British Jewish philanthropist, who canceled a significant donation to Ben Gurion University because of it hosted a conference supporting BDS organizations.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday visited the family of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was murdered Thursday morning as she slept in her Kiryat Arba bedroom after a terrorist from a nearby Palestinian village sneaked

The security cabinet on Wednesday approved the reconciliation deal with Turkey, with seven ministers voting in favor of the agreement and three voting against.

The arrival of the F-35 stealth fighter aircraft will beef up Israeli deterrence against its enemies, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said here on Wednesday, during a ceremony to unveil the first of such aircraft destined for the Israel Air Force.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman ordered a halt to the practice of returning West Bank Palestinian attackers’ bodies to their families for burial on Thursday, a day after two Palestinian terrorists killed four people and wounded 16 in a shooting attack in central Tel Aviv.

The US State Department called on Israel on Thursday to take into account “the impact on Palestinian civilians” in its response to Wednesday’s terror attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, in which four people were killed and 16 injured, three of them seriously.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot upon the Prime Minister’s return from a state visit to Russia, Wednesday night, to discuss Israel’s response to the terror attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market which left four dead and five wounded.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman vowed Thursday Israel would respond to a deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, as the IDF announced it would send two additional battalions to shore up its forces in the West Bank.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon hinted at a political run in the near future in a letter obtained by The Jerusalem Post he wrote to past campaign donors.

TEL AVIV – The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Presidency delivered a speech this week on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas extolling the Palestinian people for “loving death more than life” and promising that the Israeli “tyrants” and “aggressors will end up in the trash bin of history.”

The Times of Israel reports: Seeking to assuage fears over the expected appointment of Avigdor Liberman as defense minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he has the final word on Israel’s security operations.

The Times of Israel reports: Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s announcement Friday that he was resigning from the Knesset and government drew an avalanche of responses from politicians on all sides of Israeli politics.