Bolton: Israel Will Strike Iran if Obama is Elected Bolton thinks Israel may consider postponing the attack, however, if Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., emerges as the victor in the presidential race. He says McCain's stance on Iran ?is far more realistic than that of the Bush administration.?
'Ball of fire' if Iran attacked: IAEA chief His comments come after US media reported that Israeli jet pilots trained for a possible strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
Israel tries diplomatic route to isolate Iran Just about the only major adversary Israel isn't try to court these days is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Instead, Israel appears to be laying the groundwork for a possible military strike meant to cripple Iran's nuclear program if international diplomatic pressure fails.
US still favors diplomacy to settle Iran nuclear issue: envoy The US ambassador to the UN said Friday said Washington favored diplomacy in the Iranian nuclear crisis for now despite reports of Israeli preparations for a possible air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
Russia's Lavrov warns against attack on Iran Russia's foreign minister on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there is no proof it is trying to build nuclear weapons......"I hope the actual actions would be based on international law," Lavrov said. "And international law clearly protects Iran's and anyone else's territorial integrity."
Iran warns of 'strong blow' if Israel attacks
Palestinians: 5 killed in Gaza car explosion
Israeli air strikes kill 6 in Gaza: medics
Key Figure in USS Liberty Inquiry Dies Retired Navy Capt. Ward Boston, who in 2002 broke 35 years of silence to say the US Navy Board of Inquiry long cited to clear Israel of wrongdoing in attacking a US Navy ship during the Six Day War was a sham, died June 12 in California. He was 84.
We lost one of the good guys.
Fatah delegation travels to Gaza
Truce to bring gradual relief to Gaza "If Hamas keeps the ceasefire, we can gradually deliver more goods and supplies," an Israeli official said.
EU seeks 96 million pounds for West Bank
Israeli lightly wounded by Gaza rocket
Israel ready to ease Gaza blockade if truce holds
Your last chance: Israel's warning ISRAEL'S Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has warned the radical Islamic movement Hamas that the truce due to take effect today is the last chance to avoid a massive military incursion into the Gaza Strip.
Israel appears to rehearse Iran attack: report
Threats to strike Iran concern Israel Fears are mounting in the defense establishment that comments by senior officials regarding an imminent Israeli military strike against Iran will spur Russia to complete controversial sales of anti-aircraft missile systems to the Islamic Republic, The Jerusalem Post learned on Monday.
Security Council to discuss resolution against settlements
Failure to create Palestinian state 'serious mistake': Jordan king
Egypt opens Gaza border one-way for medical cases Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a security official said, to allow Palestinians to return to the Hamas-ruled territory after receiving medical treatment.
Gaza militants and Israel begin fragile truce Israel has promised to halt air strikes and other attacks in return for an end to the regular volleys of rockets and mortars fired into southern Israel by Hamas and several other militant groups.
U.S. official: Roadblocks lifted, W. Bank unchanged The roadblocks and other traffic impediments lifted by Israel in the West Bank in recent months have not significantly altered the situation on the ground for the Palestinian population, an American official involved in monitoring Israel-Palestinian Authority relations said yesterday
Israeli Ministers Mull Plans for Military Strike against Iran "We no longer believe in the effectiveness of sanctions," says Yatom. "A military operation is needed if the world wants to stop Iran."......even if Republican John McCain wins the race, politicians in Jerusalem do not expect him to be ordering an attack as his first official act -- despite his performance, at a campaign appearance last year, of the Beach Boys' song "Barbara Ann" with the lyrics: "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."......Riedel sees an Israeli military strike, with the US government's consent, as the most likely attack scenario. But the consequences, according to Riedel, would not differ from those of an American attack....Nevertheless, many Israelis still hope that the Americans will do the job for them. "It could still be the case," says Yatom, "that George W. Bush wants to guarantee himself a place in the history books with this last act."
Israel wants US to attack Iran for them.
Palestinians to seek $187 million at Berlin security conference The Palestinian Authority will ask international donors for $187 million to upgrade its police force and creaky courts system at a ministerial conference to be held next week in Germany, the chief European adviser to the Palestinian police said Tuesday.
Police arrest 2 settlers on suspicion of assaulting Palestinians Two settlers from the West Bank settlement of Susya were arrested Tuesday, in connection with the attack reported by Palestinian shepherds, which took place near the Mouth Hebron, last week.
Report: Settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds Two shepherds told police that they had been herding near the settlement when eight settlers stopped their truck nearby and began to throw stones at them. The shepherds escaped, apparently unharmed, but upon returning found that their donkey had been stabbed. They claimed the assailants had fled in the direction of Yitzhar
Journalists Protest Israeli Actions in Gaza Journalists in the Gaza Strip symbolically and literally laid down their cameras Monday, refusing to cover any Israel Defense Forces military operations taking place in Gaza for the day. They are demanding the Israeli government release the results of the investigation into the death of a Reuters journalist killed in Gaza exactly two months ago.
"Buffer zone" reducing Palestinian agricultural land in Gaza An expanding "buffer zone" between Israel and the Gaza Strip is driving Palestinians away from the Strip's border with Israel, reducing their access to fertile land, rights groups and agricultural associations in the enclave are warning.
A year under Hamas: Gaza safer, but life is desperate quiet -- relative quiet, that is -- has been Hamas' biggest accomplishment since. No longer do you worry about being kidnapped. Gunbattles, though they can happen, are much less common.
UN's Israel sleuth asks to investigate Palestinians U.S. professor Richard Falk, barred from Israel after remarks comparing its forces' actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis in wartime Europe, put his proposal to a session of the U.N.'s 47-member Human Rights Council.
Israel brushes aside US pressure over statehood deal
Ron Paul Claims Pelosi Spiked Iran Bill Paul says Pelosi?s first act as House Speaker in 2006 was to ?deliberately? remove a portion of a legislative spending bill which said the United States ?can't go to war with Iran without getting approval from Congress.? She did. Everyone knows it. Google Scott Ritter's article 'the Final Act of Submission'.
Human rights situation in Palestinian territories 'remains grave' - UN reports Ms. Arbour's second report focused on the question of access for Palestinians to religious sites. She concluded that "measures adopted by the Government of Israel to restrict freedom of movement of both people and goods in the occupied Palestinian territory severely impeded the population's access to religious sites, notably in Jerusalem, cultural exchanges and events."
Israel's army orders seizure of West Bank land
Palestinians hit by higher food prices and falling incomes
Arab League chief walks out on Israel's Peres at Petra conference Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa withdrew from a conference session in Jordan after verbal exchanges with Israeli President Shimon Peres over who blocked the Middle East peace process, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Thursday.
Politics mostly responsible for Palestinian food insecurity - UN "The main driver of Palestinian food insecurity is of a political nature," said a joint food security survey conducted by the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). It cited Israeli-imposed restrictions on movement, and land and water access, as well as the extension of the Barrier and Israeli settlements as the main causes.
World Vision President visits projects in Palestinian territories 'Water is a crucial issue to the survival of these communities and we hope that the Israeli authorities, who finally allowed this to be built and connected it to the water network in Israel after being cutoff for ten years, will adhere to the basic human rights of the Palestinian people to clean drinking water,' said Mr Hirsch.
Gaza truce could create opening for U.N. force An Egyptian-brokered truce and reconciliation talks between rival Palestinian factions could create conditions for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in the Gaza Strip, the United Nation's envoy said on Thursday.
UN hopes Gaza truce will clear way for development drive
Hamas says Syria won't cut ties for Israel peace Hamas is confident Syria will not bow to Israeli pressure to cut ties with the Palestinian Islamist group to clinch a peace deal, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said.
Inter-Palestinian talks positive: Islamic Jihad
Hamas says Abbas envoys snub its Gaza leader
How to silence that Iran war drumbeat Whether the rumblings are real or overinflated rumors, it's time to reverse any momentum that could unleash a potentially calamitous Middle East conflict, killing thousands, sending oil prices to $200 a barrel and beyond, and accentuating global recession......Members of a Bush delegation in mid-May reportedly assured Israeli officials in secret that a US attack on Iran was planned, according to Israeli Army Radio and in The Jerusalem Post as well as in American blogs and websites.
Palestinian PM wants truce extended to West Bank
A Fair Fight for Lebanon?s Army even though the Bush administration has provided more than $300 million in tactical aid to Lebanon since the Syrian withdrawal of 2005, it still apparently refuses to provide the kind of strategic weapons ? guided rockets, tanks, modern artillery and intelligence-gathering equipment ? that are desperately needed in this task
Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran? conversations with several sources who are familiar with the affair indicate that Risen has been asked to testify as part of an investigation aimed at revealing who leaked apparently confidential information about the planning of secret Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad missions concerning Iran's nuclear program.
Sneh: Israel will have to deal with the Iranian threat alone In the near future Israel will not be able to escape attacking Iran, Israel Radio quoted former deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh as saying on Sunday.
Settlers suspected of damaging Palestinian's car released on bail
Leftists' solidarity regatta beached Left-wing activists were left stranded on the shores of Herzliya Monday, after a floating protest against the siege on Gaza went awry due to one boat-owner's refusal to set sail. The captain was hired by the leftists to take them out to sea, but he declined to do so when they arrived wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags.
Gaza 3ala Bali: Protest in Ramallah in solidarity with the fishermen of Gaza
37 Palestinians arrested near Umm al-Fahm Thirty-seven illegal Palestinian aliens were arrested near Umm al-Fahm in an operation conducted by the northern Border Police near Umm al-Fahm and Baka Al Garbia
Vienna to host donor conference for Lebanon refugee camp
Diaspora students taught how to make Israel's case on campus These potential future leaders of the Jewish people are being trained by an organization called The David Project to be faithful advocates of Israel. With the experience they have gained, the young men and women hope to arrive on college campuses in America, Britain and South Africa to engage in hasbara, or public diplomacy.
British Embassy invitations upset Palestinians the presence of the three guests from the Yesha Council, which represents Jewish settlers in the West Bank, has raised fears about a change in British policy. Britain has long held that Jewish settlements on the West Bank are illegal and an obstacle to peace.
'Rice's criticism ruffles few feathers' US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's harsh criticism of Israel's plan to continue building in east Jerusalem met with little panic and no formal response on Sunday, a sign - one government source said - that with less than five months to the US elections, "it is not that important what she says anymore."
Civil Administration officials indicted in West Bank land steal Two senior officials in the Civil Administration allegedly illegally collaborated with Jewish land dealers to take over land in the West Bank, according to an indictment issued Tuesday in the Jerusalem District Court. Lieutenant Colonel Yair Blumenthal and Major Ehud Brosh have been charged with taking bribes and favors from the dealers, brothers Yosef and Yaakov Amram.
In Parish and Parliament, Churches of 40 Countries Give Witness for Mid-East Peace "Knowing that churches all over the world are supporting a just peace means a lot for Palestinians, Christian and Muslim, in this 60th anniversary year," said Nora Carmi in Jerusalem, one of the week's planners and a staff member at Sabeel, a church-related organization
Missionaries under threat in Israel
Left-wing, Palestinian activists protest ?settler violence?
Peace Now: Eli Yishai's comments on Jerusalem embarrass Israel Peace Now Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer reacted to Shas Chairman Eli Yishai?s comments surrounding continued building in Jerusalem and his belief that there is no difference between Jerusalem and Washington
ACLU seeks to clear 2 charities in Holy Land case The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge in Dallas to clear two groups named as unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism-financing case.
Israel 'detained' French diplomat Catherine Hyver says she was held for 17 hours without food or water after refusing to allow a search of her car
Harmeet Sooden deported from Israel "They never disclosed the official reason for denying me, the Ministry of Interior official told me that I was a 'threat to the security of the State of Israel'," Mr Sooden told the website.
Israel, Syria "extremely satisfied" with talks
2 indicted in death of Palestinian leader's son A retired Lebanese police officer and a Palestinian were indicted Tuesday for allegedly working with Israeli intelligence to assassinate the son of a radical Palestinian leader, a senior court official said.
Israel frees jailed Hamas lawmaker in West Bank
Egypt returns radioactive shipment to Israel Egypt has sent back to Israel a delivery of 32 tonnes of tiles that was emitting high levels of radiation, a security official told AFP on Monday.
Damascus 'backs' Hamas-Israel truce
Interpol says Syria "very cooperative" in combating terrorism
The Bush administration took action Wednesday against a Venezuelan official and others accused of providing financial support to the Hezbollah terror group.
Gazans make own fuel amid Israel restriction
Report: U.S., Canada warn Hezbollah set to strike Jewish targets Intelligence agencies in Canada and the United States are warning of mounting signs that the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah is planning to attack Jewish targets in retaliation for the assassination of top Hezbollah man Imad Mughniyah some six months ago, ABC News reported Thursday.
Ofra officials: Controversial homes already occupied The settlement of Ofra has connected nine homes allegedly built on Palestinian land to water and electricity, and people have moved in, Ofra's secretariat told the High Court of Justice Friday
From refugee to soccer star-in-waiting Iraq-born Palestinian Ali Khalid Abu Taha was one of 100 refugees from the Ruweished refugee camp in Jordan to enter soccer-mad Brazil under a UN-brokered deal and quickly caught the eye of sporting talent scouts.
Critics Demand Resignation of U.N. Official Who Wants Probe of 9/11 'Inside Job' Theories Richard Falk, the special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, investigates alleged Israeli violations of human rights law for the U.N.'s Human Rights Council.
But the former Princeton professor would also like to investigate whether "some sort of controlled explosion from within" destroyed the Twin Towers, he told FOXNews.com.
Google Van Romero. View the towers falling, and the groundshake seconds prior to them falling. View video of controlled demolitions. See the similarities.
IRAN: Stop nukes by bombing oil wells, neocons suggest The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a famous Beltway think tank. It was founded in 1985 by Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel. You don't say?
Report: U.S. urges Israeli pullout from disputed Golan area According to the report, Rice told Lebanese leaders during her unexpected visit to Beirut that the U.S. would bolster its efforts in the coming weeks toward pushing Israel to pull out from the Shaba Farms.
Adviser denies Obama showed naiveté on Jerusalem
Palestinians get EC aid, but water and sanitation underfunded
Lebanon spurns Israeli overture Fouad Siniora's office said Israel's withdrawal from occupied territory, as required by UN resolutions, was the key to peace, not a negotiation process.
Court to hear petition on Silwan digs The High Court of Justice is due to hand down its decision in the next few days on a request to lift the interim injunction preventing the Antiquities Authority from resuming its excavation of a Herodian water channel in Silwan, outside Jerusalem's Old City.
Trade unions demand Israeli ban The Irish Congress of Trade Unions also called on politicians to get their EU counterparts to address the actions of the Israeli government.
Syria lacks capability for nuclear facility-IAEA
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