Day after Obama urges Iran to seize ‘historic opportunity,’ supreme leader says US seeks to create insecurity BY TIMES OF ISRAEL Iran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei called for “Death to America” on Saturday, a day after President Barack Obama appealed to Iran to seize a “historic opportunity” for a nuclear deal and a better future, […]
What would a nuclear attack on Tel Aviv look like? According to a model presented by Dr. Moti Ofek, such an attack would likely come “out of the blue,” on a sunny weekday afternoon, with the Ayalon Freeway packed with cars – and result in tens of thousands of deaths. Ofek presented the morbid forecast […]
BY: Adam Kredo JERUSALEM—A group of Iranian dissidents and political prisoners have lashed out at the Obama administration, lambasting its ongoing diplomacy with Iran, according to two open letters sent to the White House in recent days. As Tehran and the United States move closer to a final deal aimed at stalling Iran’s nuclear breakout […]
By Roger Aronoff Prior to the speech of the Israeli Prime Minister to Congress, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria sang the praises of a story from the pro-Edward Snowden publication, The Intercept, suggesting that Benjamin Netanyahu just can’t be trusted. The story claimed Netanyahu has been “crying wolf” about the Iranian nuclear weapons program by changing his […]
After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Congress address on Tuesday, which US President Barack Obama had fiercely opposed, Obama said there was “nothing new” in the speech. Obama claimed Netanyahu “did not offer any viable alternative” to the Iran nuclear deal being formulated ahead of a March 31 deadline in comments from the Oval Office, reports […]
Barack Hussein Obama took a stab at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Reuters on Monday, on the eve of Netanyahu’s controversial speech to a special joint session of Congress on Tuesday morning. Obama said that Netanyahu “made all sorts of claims” about the interim nuclear deal with Iran that turned out […]
John Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, on Thursday challenged an assertion by the Obama administration that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to Congress would be destructive to relations between the United States and Israel. “The president’s national security advisor says it’s destructive for the prime minister of Israel to […]
Paul Craig Roberts Ambassador Jack Matlock made an important speech at the National Press Club on February 11. Matlock served as US ambassador to the Soviet Union during 1987-91. In his speech he describes how President Reagan won the trust of the Soviet leadership in order to bring to an end the Cold War and […]
Two senior US Senate Democrats had invited Netanyahu to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators. WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined an invitation by Senate Democrats to meet during his visit to Washington next week, citing fears it might “compound the misperception of partisanship” surrounding the trip. “I regret that the invitation to […]
The US administration under President Barack Obama has stopped updating Israel on the progress of talks with Iran over that country’s nuclear program, in retaliation for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s intention to speak in Congress March 3 at the invitation of Republican Speaker John Boehner. According to Israel’s Channel 2, Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, […]
