• Turkish filmmaker takes aim at US and Israel
Israel may not like it, but a popular Turkish TV and film franchise which once depicted a Jewish doctor stealing organs from Muslim prisoners in Iraq now has plans to release a film set in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. "Valley of the Wolves: Palestine" is projected to cost over $10 million, making it one of the most expensive...
• Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions
Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. The countries laid out their hopes at an international conference in Paris on civilian nuclear energy, which contributes far less ...
• Peres calls for 'total' world isolation of Ahmadinejad
President Shimon Peres on Tuesday said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must face "total" international isolation, adding that his anti-Israel rhetoric was only a cover for his ambitions for Iranian hegemony in the Middle East. "A person like Ahmadinejad, who calls openly to destroy the state of Israel, cannot be a full...
• 'Israel won't initiate attack in North'
“We are not looking for confrontations. Israel will not initiate attacks in the northern arena but we are strong and deterring,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday during a talk with high school students in northern Israel. According to Barak, “If we are forced into a confrontation, we will not seek to run after every Hizbullah...
• Biden: US 'determined' to prevent a nuclear Iran
US Vice President Joe Biden expressed America's "absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel' security" at a press conference in Jerusalem following a meeting with Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu Monday morning. As such, Biden said, Washington was "determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons...
• Biden: Nuclear Iran a threat to Israel and the U.S.
The Obama administration has boosted U.S. defense ties to Israel and will close ranks with its ally against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday ahead of a trip to Israel. Biden will arrive in Israel on Monday afternoon, to deliver a message to the Israeli public about U.S.-Israel relations...
• Israel OKs new settlement work
Israel authorized the construction of 112 new apartments in the West Bank despite a pledge to slowdown settlement building, the government disclosed Monday — a decision that enraged the Palestinians a day after they reluctantly agreed to resume peace talks. Word of the new construction in Beitar Illit came amid a flurry...
• Barak: Iran not existential threat on Israel
Contrary to the prime minister's stance, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that "Iran does not pose an existential threat to Israel at this time." Speaking before Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee he said, "Iran has the potential to develop into an existential threat on Israel, and we are working to prevent that."...
