Israel's Likud Party has dominated recent polls and is predicted to have a good chance at forming a government after the February 10 elections, but this week's primary results are expected to make it difficult for party leader Benjamin Netanyahu to position the party...
Arrests, Diplomacy by Israel Keep Aid Out of Gaza
Israel keeps aid groups from delivering food, medicine to the Gaza Strip
Israel Preparing to Attack Iran Without US Assistance
Last week the United States was reported to have warned Israel against launching any attacks against Iran until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. The report came hot on the heels of the Israeli military's annual security assessment, which...
US Won’t Participate as Cluster Bomb Ban Signed
Most of the world's nations met today in Oslo, Norway to sign a treaty banning the use, stockpile, transfer, and manufacture of cluster munitions. Among those agreeing to the ban were most NATO members, including Britain, France, Germany, and Australia. Conspicuously...
Israel Turns Back Gaza Aid Boat
A Libyan cargo vessel weighed down with 3,000 tonnes of food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods, was barred from entering the Gaza Strip yesterday by the Israeli navy. Palestinian officials say they expect the vessel to attempt to reach the Gaza Strip again. Andy...
Report: US Asked Israel Not to Start Any Major Wars Until Obama Takes Office
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...