Israeli troops have arrested some 30 Palestinians in the West Bank as they ramped up a search for three teenagers believed kidnapped by Hamas, the army said on Thursday. The arrests overnight raised the number of Palestinians detained since the
JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of an Israeli-American teen believed to have been abducted in the West Bank says it has received an outpouring of support from friends and family back in the U.S. Naftali Fraenkel is believed to have
The Israel Defence Forces arrested over 40 Hamas operatives in the West Bank, including a senior Palestinian lawmaker, as a search for three missing Israeli teens believed to have been abducted and a crackdown on the Islamist group continued overnight
Sunday, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Hamas terrorist group of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers who disappeared Thursday after heading home from a West Bank religious school. The last word from Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, and Naftali
A leaked audio recording of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat harshly criticising Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas exposed severe fissures within the Palestinian leadership, and showed profound disdain by Erekat for his president, reports The Times of Israel. In the video,
The United States condemned a Wednesday rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel, but maintained that it wasn’t ready to hold the new Palestinian unity government responsible for the attack, reports Israeli news site Ynet. “We condemn all rocket fire
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Jesus two millennia ago. “Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew,” Netanyahu told Francis, at a public meeting
On Monday while visiting with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Pope Francis made an unscheduled stop at the terrorism victims’ memorial. The pope leaned against the wall engraved with the names of Israeli victims
The shooting dead of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday was “the result of constant incitement against Jews and their state,” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. “Slander and lies against the State of
The Israeli government is launching a major plan to boost economic and diplomatic ties and increase tourism in both directions between Israel and the countries of Latin America’s Pacific Alliance: Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, and Peru. The government will
On May 11th, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan accepted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to send “a team of Israeli counter-terrorism experts to assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations of the girls abducted by Boko Haram.” Approximately 200 girls
On May 11th, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan accepted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to send “a team of Israeli counter-terrorism experts to assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations of the girls abducted by Boko Haram.” Approximately 200 girls
Israel and Turkey are likely to normalise relations soon after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns from his trip to Japan on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. “We are waiting for the prime minister to return and finalise the deal,”
“US aid indirectly helps Hamas, under deal with Palestinian Authority” That is the headline over at FOX News, regarding the Palestinian Authority sending 3,000 “unit government police officers to the Gaza strip. Was there every any question that U.S. tax
Twenty years of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have ended without “a document that contains any real Palestinian concession with [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas’ signature.” According to Haaretz.com, there are no such documents, which is characteristic of the pattern that has been in place
In an interview that aired Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained the justification for Israel calling off peace talks with the Palestinians. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had agreed to form a unity government with Hamas,
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, the two main factions of the Palestinian Nationalist movement, have announced a reconciliation agreement, creating the image of a united front towards Palestinian statehood. Palestinian Authority President Abbas sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip
Rivals Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a Palestinian unity government within five weeks, Al Jazeera and The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. According to the report, the agreement was reached during a Tuesday meeting between a Fatah delegation to
As US Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to return home empty handed yet again from two weeks of overseas diplomacy, he told reporters in Morocco that as far as his Middle East peace initiative goes, it is “reality check
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
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
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court on Monday convicted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a wide-ranging bribery case, a verdict that could send him to prison and that crushed his hopes for a political comeback. The development seals 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
Reports are circulating that President Barack Obama might pardon Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who has spent nearly three decades in prison, as a way of enticing Israel to continue its participation in peace talks with the Palestinian Authority that have
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
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants resumed their rocket fire toward Israel on Thursday, striking the outskirts of two major cities a day after launching the largest barrage since an eight-day Israeli offensive in late 2012. Thursday’s attacks set off air-raid
The Guardian: The prime minister, David Cameron, holds a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, during a visit to Israel. Cameron says he is there as friend of Israel and supporter of the two-state solution. Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned British Prime Minster David Cameron that the missiles that “rained down” on Israel last night were from Iranian backed Islamic terrorist groups and with the Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) Iran is currently developing London
The Arab League is endorsing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state as a part of any peace agreement. But in taking this position, Abbas – considered by the Obama administration to be a moderate
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked what he described as global hypocrisy on Iran, noting that the world’s leaders had largely failed to condemn a large Iranian shipment of weapons to Palestinian terrorist groups that Israeli naval commandos intercepted last
If Israel is “America’s 51st state,” as some Israelis sometimes joke, then Silicon Valley might be an Israeli settlement. There are so many Israeli high-tech companies, and so many Israeli entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, that it was virtually home turf
Navy commandos board ship carrying missiles with 200km range in early morning operation and encounter no resistance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted by calling the Iranians. Read more here…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a swing through the Silicon Valley to meet with high-tech leaders and sign a pro-business agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown. Wednesday’s visit follows Netanyahu’s meetings with President Barack
During his speech discussing the recent international negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program before the the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to do what it takes to defend his country. Follow Pam on
The Palestinian Authority said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Tuesday amounted to a unilateral declaration that talks were over. Nabil Shaath told Agence France-Presse that Netanyahu’s remarks were “an
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference invoked the ‘This Bud’s For You’ Budweiser commercial slogan in his warning that the Iran’s Scud missiles will be used to hit western targets…
WASHINGTON, DC — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told thousands of pro-Israel activists in Washington on Tuesday that Israel was prepared to do whatever it felt necessary to stop Iran’s nuclear program. “We will never be brought to the brink
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood firm against pressure from President Barack Obama in his opening remarks at their White House meeting today. According to reports from the briefing room, Netanyahu said: “Israel has been doing its part in the
A day before meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, President Obama issued an implicit threat to Israel that America’s ability to “manage the international fallout is going to be limited” if Israel does not agree to
