Leading US researcher states ‘Palestine’ is liable to endanger Israel much more than third intifada, will increase danger of nuclear war. The “state of Palestineâ could present a far greater threat to Israel than a third intifada or persistent terrorism. This threat, which would further exacerbate the areaâs correlation of forces, is potentially existential. Under…
In the wake of the Temple Mount crisis, can Washington remain an honest broker to peace? Before a shooting on the Temple Mount last month threw the region into a harrowing, if temporary crisis, âtalk of a US-led peace process between Israelis and Palestinians was light, vague and full of promise, with neither side willing…
Members of the Likud party are calling for party member and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down amidst allegations of fraud because harm is done to the political groupâs reputation. Though many within his party have expressed their support for the leader, âa silent majorityâ is growing louder and they are calling for…
If Israel is chosen to fill a seat in the United Nations Security Council it would be a political farce and a scandal, Ahmad Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said on Saturday, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Very little has been said in several months about this issue, since Israelâs UN envoy…
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman cautioned the countryâs northern neighbors against testing the Jewish Stateâs patience following numerous cases of spillover fire from Syria. On Saturday, two stray mortars landed near a security fence in Israel’s Golan Heights in the latest of a series of such incidents in just one week. The projectiles are believed…
Construction to Add Housing for Jews in Arab Neighborhood. Israel intends to move forward with plans to expand Jewish-only neighborhoods that have been built in the middle of an Arab neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, and in the next two weeks, at least five Palestinian families will be evicted from their homes to make way…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the USS George H.W. Bush docked outside of Haifa. The destroyer had just returned from five months of battling Daesh. Netanyahu spoke of Israelâs contributions to fighting the militant jihadists in Syria and Iraq, hailing the ongoing efforts of the US-led coalition. “We are here on a mighty aircraft…