Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejected the notion that the United Nations could urge her government to end its ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, saying only Israel gets to decide when it will stop attacking the strip. With the death toll quietly passing 900 today,...
With still no end in sight to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, growing international concerns about the soaring civilian toll are putting an uncomfortable spotlight on the military's behavior in a densely populated region. But while their own legal experts insist...
In an interview today, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram accused Pakistan of "doing nothing" to assist India since November's Mumbai attacks and said if this doesn't change his government plans to sever all business, transport and tourist links with...
Parash Hill, a nature reserve in southern Israel, is a great spot for a picnic. With lush green fields and a view all the way to the Mediterranean, it is a serene and picturesque place where residents of Sderot come to quietly enjoy nature. But in a nation obsessed...
Taking a short break from lashing out at the international media for reporting the growing civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke in detail about the events leading up to the US abstention from the United Nations Security...
By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month's election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta'al (UAL-T). The two bans will prevent more than half of the current Arab...
Over 600 militants from both the local area and Afghanistan launched a frontal assault on three checkpoints in Pakistan's border Mohmand Agency, sparking a several hour gunfight which led to the deaths of at least 40 of the attackers and six Pakistani soldiers. At...
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert touted his military's "impressive gains" in having killed nearly 900 people in the first 15 days of the war in the Gaza Strip, the question everyone really wants to know is how much longer this whole war business is going to take....
In an interview with the Austrian weekly "Profil," Israeli Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia Dan Ashbel declared that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) "has been taken over by Hamas and is being used as a weapon against its own people." The UNRWA is...
Who would've thought that killing a school full of civilians in a refugee camp would be such a difficult thing for the Israeli government to get its story straight on? Five days since causing over 100 civilian casualties with a mortar attack on a UN girls' school,...
