Washington has greatly reduced the scale of U.S. participation in a massive joint military exercise with Israel, sources told TIME Magazine on Friday. The drill was postponed seven months ago just as concerns were brimming that Israel would launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. It was later rescheduled for late October. The officials told […]
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will visit Israel this summer to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other leaders, a senior aide to Netanyahu told The New York Times on Monday. According to the report Romney, who has pledged to “do the opposite” of the Obama administration on matters pertaining to Israel, […]
The Egyptian presidency on Monday denied that president-elect Mohammed Morsi gave an interview to Iran’s Fars news agency in which he pledged to strengthen ties with the Islamic Republic. A report in AFP quoted a spokesman for the Egyptian presidency as having told the official news agency MENA, “Mr. Morsi did not give any interview […]
by Daniel Pipes July 1, 2012 His honors are manifold – Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, former President of the American Political Science Association and a recipient of its James Madison Award, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and […]
An Egyptian plumber in Alexandria beat his pregnant wife to death upon learning that she had not voted for Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi, the Egyptian daily al-Wafd reported on Sunday. According to police reports, the initial argument between the unnamed couple escalated into a violent death, despite the please of the battered and […]
A member of the Palestinian Authority’s national soccer team who was imprisoned by Israel in 2009 on suspicion of terror activities, agreed on Monday to end a hunger strike of more than three months in exchange for his release on July 10. The Associated Press reported that the deal to free Mahmoud Sarsak would end […]
US President Barack Obama has again persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to hold off attacking Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months by promising a new set of severe sanctions against Iran. US administration officials assured debkafile’s Washington sources that Israel’s leaders were won over by the Obama administration’s promise to ratchet up US […]
Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, eyed as a potential running mate for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, wrapped up a trip to Israel last week that featured talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. According to ABC News, Portman toured an Iron Dome advanced missile defense system in southern Israel and […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed his disappointment on Tuesday over the way the negotiations between world powers and Iran, over its disputed nuclear program, were going. Speaking at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said, “Not only should the sanctions on Iran be increased, the demands for […]
What JStreet is to American Jews, Yachad is to the U.K. Jewish community – a group that purports to support Israel, even though it is a harsh critic of the “occupation” and the right wing polices of the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But Yachad is no supporter of Israel, says Ari Soffer of […]
