• Fayyad: Israel's actions undermine prospects for peace
Palestinians told US Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday that Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews challenged Washington's efforts to get indirect peace talks underway. In Jerusalem, Interior Minister Eli Yishai apologized for what he termed "real embarrassment" caused to Biden by the news on Tuesday that Israel would erect...
Mar 10th, 2010 15:03
• PM Address the Christians United For Israel Summit
Welcome to Jerusalem, the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Your presence here today represents a profound transformation in the relationship between Christians and Jews. This transformation has its roots in the 19th century when the early Christian Zionists came to the Land Israel and...
Mar 10th, 2010 14:58
• 'Help non-Muslims pray on Temple Mount'
JERUSALEM – A Temple Mount activist organization here has declared next Tuesday "International Temple Mount Awareness Day" and is calling on the world community to express solidarity with the rights of non-Muslims to pray on the site. "The Temple Mount is the holiest spot in the world, yet the majority of the world's population...
Mar 10th, 2010 14:53
• Iran leader: US playing 'game' in Afghanistan
Taking aim at the US, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported. At a press conference in the Afghan capital Kabul, Ahmadinejad was asked to respond to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who earlier...
Mar 10th, 2010 14:46
• 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...
Mar 9th, 2010 14:41
• 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 ...
Mar 9th, 2010 14:34
• 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...
Mar 9th, 2010 14:23
• '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...
Mar 9th, 2010 14:14
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