Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the international community not to be fooled by Iran’s new “moderate” president. Speaking to the Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth on Thursday, Netanyahu said that the elections in Iran “reflect a deep dissatisfaction of the Iranian people with its regime. Unfortunately, this result doesn’t have the power to change Iran’s nuclear […]
The United States Thursday sharply criticized Israel’s plans to move ahead with 1,000 new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria, the Biblical heartland of the Jews’ forefathers, saying it was unhelpful to US efforts to kickstart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. “We don’t accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity,” State Department […]
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Newscom On the margins of the general assembly of the Organization of American States in Guatemala, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuela’s foreign minister, Elias Jaua, representing the democratically challenged and crisis-prone government of Nicolas Maduro, handpicked successor of the late Hugo Chavez and self-proclaimed victor of the April 14 presidential elections. […]
A Cairo court has sentenced 43 Egyptian and foreign employees of several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to jail sentences, ranging from one to five years for working illegally, the AFP news agency reported Tuesday. Among them, 27 defendants were sentenced in absentia to five years. Judge Makram Awad also ordered the closure of the NGOs, including […]
State Department/Sipa USA/Newscom Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria, was called a terrorist organization by Secretary of State John Kerry last week. At the 50th anniversary Summit for the African Union celebrations, Secretary Kerry referred to Boko Haram not as a “terrorist group” in typical State Department–approved terms but as an outright “terrorist organization.” […]
John Kerry equated the Boston Marathon bombing with Israel’s raid on the Mavi Marmara raid. AP writes: Mr. Kerry said he understood the anger and frustration of those Turks who lost friends and family in the raid. Mr. Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, said last week’s Boston Marathon bombings made him acutely aware of the […]
(CNSNews.com) – As threats from North Korea makes headlines in northeast Asia and around the world, Secretary of State John Kerry, in his weekend visit to the region, gave high priority to a different subject – one that he is passionate about – “anthropogenic” global warming and his contention that the science is settled. At […]
Patsy Lynch/Polaris/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry will be under scrutiny by the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m., testifying at a hearing entitled “Securing U.S. Interests Abroad: The FY 2014 Foreign Affairs Budget.” It could be a rough morning for the former Senator. HFAC Chairman Representative Ed Royce (R–CA) stated: […]
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Newscom U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated during his recent trip to China that the U.S. would withdraw some of its missile defenses if China can persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. It is optimistic to assume that China would be interested in persuading North Korea to give up its […]
April 9, 2013 15:35 by Pesach Benson 1. John Kerry’s resurrecting the 2002 Arab peace initiative — with tweaks. AP writes: The 2002 initiative that Kerry wants to revive parts of would have provided Israel recognition throughout the Arab world in exchange for a pullout from territory conquered in 1967 . . . Kerry, however, […]
