Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Monday comments, in which he claimed to have ordered President Bush to prevent an American vote in favor of the UN Security Council’s Gaza ceasefire resolution and publicly shamed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the process remains a hot story in the Israeli press, and has sparked a war [...]
Top Israeli defense officials say that the military has accomplished all that it possibly could in nearly three weeks of attacks on the Gaza Strip, and they support the idea of ending the operations before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama next week. Foreign Minister and leader of the ruling Kadima Party Tzipi Livni expressed [...]
Attempting to capitalize on the international outrage, particularly in the Muslim world, over the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Osama bin Laden’s newest audio tape calls for all Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel. His speech also targeted the leaders of most of the Arab governments, accusing them of “stand[ing] in the barracks [...]
Defense Minister Ehud Barak is reportedly in favor of a week-long “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip to curb the growing international criticism about the war’s toll on civilians. Even Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who spoke with pride at how the military had deliberately “gone wild” in the Gaza Strip seems to support a ceasefire. [...]
Perhaps already practicing for what he hopes will be a return to the position of Israeli Prime Minister after next month’s elections, hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu defended the attacks on the Gaza Strip as the act of “a responsible government,” cheered the ban on Israeli-Arab political parties in the name of defending democracy, and [...]
Moving through her relatively uneventful confirmation hearing in the Senate, incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared her intentions to embark on a foreign policy based on what she called “smart power.” “Our foreign policy has gotten way out of balance, it’s going to be up to us to try to get back into more [...]
“We are treating everything as hostile right now. We were told not to take chances – to shoot rather than ask questions.” That is the policy of the invading Israeli soldiers as described by one of their lieutenants. And indeed, they’re doing plenty of shooting. As for who they’re shooting, that’s one of those questions [...]
When the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) banned the opposition Balad and United Arab List-Ta’al parties from next month’s elections, it unsurprisingly spawned no small amount of outrage among Israel’s Arab population. After all, Arabs make up roughly 20% of the population of Israel, and the ban will likely cost them the vast majority of what little [...]
Yesterday’s claims by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he single-handedly prevented the United States from voting for the United Nations Security Council ceasefire in the Gaza Strip with a single phone call have certainly gained a lot of attention, but not the good kind like you want. Instead the claims from Olmert that he [...]
“It seems at this moment the invasion is beginning at a number of points in the Gaza Strip,” Ramallah-based reporter Hadir Shaheen declared on Saturday, January 3. And he was right. Less than two hours later the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was worldwide news, covered on every website and television [...]
