Amid several bellicose comments about the possibility of an impending Israeli strike against Iran Israeli Defense Ministry officials say they have been contacted by US officials who have asked them to refrain from launching any attacks against Iran until after...
Israeli Military Urges Contingency Plan for Iran Strike
Experts disagree on whether Iran even has the raw material to construct a single nuclear weapon if it chose to do so. They seem to agree, hawkish political sloganeering notwithstanding, that Iran has not diverted any of that material to military ends. Either way, the...
Israeli General Eyes Regime Change, Assassination in Iran
In an interview, former Israeli military chief and potential future Defense Minister General Moshe Ya'alon says that the Iranian revolution must be confronted "immediately," and suggests some rather extreme measures which this confrontation might involve. Firstly an...
Israel Seals Off Gaza, Expresses Outrage Over UN Remarks
As reported yesterday, the Israeli government allowed 33 trucks of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip. Allowing the international community to send food to the troubled strip is certainly a positive step toward repairing the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas, but...
Humanitarian Aid May Be First Step Toward Salvaging Gaza Truce
Between eight and 12 Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip today, causing no injuries and doing minimal damage in the latest incident in a two week spate of attacks on both sides which have threatened to end a five-month long ceasefire between Israel and...
Peres: Obama Brings Hope of Iran Talks
Israeli President Shimon Peres says he believes President-elect Barack Obama may be able to unite the international community and force Iran to the negotiating table. However he also indicated that any talks with Iran would have to be predicated on them meeting...
Israeli Vice Premier Eyes Destruction of Gaza Villages
Last week's Israeli raid on a house in the Gaza Strip led to a barrage of missiles and retaliatory strikes from both sides. The situation seems to have calmed down since then, though a rocket yesterday fired from the strip did hit Israel: causing no damage and no...
Israel to Resume Limited Fuel Supplies Amid Gaza Blackouts
With more than half of the Gaza Strip's 1,500,000 residents without power, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has decided to allow "limited" amounts of industrial diesel into the strip. The Israelis sealed off the strip last week after a series of clashes tested the...
Is the Gaza Ceasefire Over?
Sources in the Israeli military say the next 24 hours will be crucial to determining the future of the ceasefire between the Israeli government and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, after an exchange of strikes between the two sides left the five-month long ceasefire in...
Israelis Wary of Obama Presidency
Though Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she believes that President-elect Barack Obama will maintain America's "close strategic cooperation" with Israel and continue the "unshakable special relationship," many Israelis are reportedly uncertain of what the...