Iran and Egypt are lining up to fight the United States and its allies over Israel at the upcoming United Nations meeting on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to enter the U.S. to attend the meeting, which begins Monday in New York, but it is not yet clear […]
by Daniel Pipes National Post April 29, 2010 [DP note: The title is slightly changed] This month, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israel must withdraw from Palestinian territories. “The world isn’t willing to accept — and we won’t change that in 2010 — the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades […]
Hizballah rockets can reach deep into Israel and strike major population centers. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday accused Syria of arming the Lebanon-based terrorist army Hizballah with dangerous new weapons, The Washington Post reported. “I would just say that from our vantage point, Syria and Iran are providing […]
Why are Afghan civilian casualties “accidents” but Palestinian civilian casualties are “war crimes”? Nato and Afghan government forces have recently launched the largest military operation against the Taliban since the beginning of the conflict in Afghanistan in 2001. Like the IDF during Operation Cast Lead, US and British troops face an enemy that cares little for […]
Israel released a document (pdf format) it sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in response to the Goldstone report. The 46-page paper primarily defends the integrity of Israel’s due process and civilian oversight of the IDF’s investigations into 150 separate incidents and reports. The paper also dismisses four of the Goldstone report’s 36 specific […]
From VirtualJerusalem.com: Human Rights Watch rejected a Hamas claim that the Palestinians did not target Israeli civilians with rockets during the Gaza war. In a statement Thursday, the human rights group said there is strong evidence that “Hamas’ claim that rockets were intended to hit Israeli military targets and only accidentally harmed civilians is belied […]
The Iraqi government has filed a claim with the United Nations for financial compensation from Israel for bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981. Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki is seeking the compensation after the cabinet decided on November 25 to set up a “neutral committee” to determine the scale of compensation that Israel will […]
Israel and Iran have traded warnings as the Islamic Republic plans another massive military exercise against a possible attack by Israel. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that the United Nations Security Council will impose tougher sanctions on Iran within a month. His prediction coincided with American media reports that the recent renewed unrest in […]
The head of Iran’s nuclear program last week said the country is developing more efficient models of centrifuges to enrich uranium, the Associated Press reported. “We are currently producing [a] new generation of centrifuges named IR3 and IR4,” said Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi. “We hope to use them by early 2011 after […]
In September2009, Barack Obama appointed himself Chairman of the United Nations Security Council for its September 24 meeting in New York, in lieu of U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice. Despite constitutional language that prohibits a U.S. elected official from holding any international title, Obama presided over the global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament talks […]
