Special to WorldTribune.com Israel will provide continuous video surveillance at the Temple Mount site in Jerusalem, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. The 24-7 surveillance, which Kerry said was approved by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “will provide comprehensive visibility and transparency” and discourage “anybody from disturbing the sanctity of this holy site,” Kerry […]
Special to WorldTribune.com One day after suggesting Israel used “excessive force” against Palestinians in the recent wave of violence, the Obama administration said it never made the accusation and insisted Israel has the right to defend itself. “We have never accused Israeli security forces of excessive force with respect to these terrorist attacks,” State Department […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel has blocked off Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem for the first time since 1967 after a wave of attacks linked to Hamas. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and police were ordered to impose a siege on neighborhoods in east Jerusalem that are dominated by Hamas. In the past month, eight Israelis were killed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s “will to live trumps our enemies’ desire for death,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Oct. 12. In his address to the Knesset at the opening of its winter session, Netanyahu said that “after 100 years of terrorism and 100 years of attempts to destroy the Zionist enterprise, our enemies still […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a blunt address to the United Nations General Assembly, slammed the world body for its indifference to Iranian threats to destroy Israel. Netanyahu said that the Iran deal “doesn’t make peace more likely,” but by giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief the deal makes […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israeli artillery forces shelled two Syrian military targets in the Golan Heights on Sept. 27 after a stray round from Syria exploded in Israeli territory. “The IDF holds the Syrian military responsible for all events stemming from its territory and will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israel’s sovereignty and the safety […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Recent reports have said the United States is ready to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in an attempt to allay Israel’s vociferous criticism of the Iran nuclear deal. The move, however, is not likely to succeed, experts say. “If this is the motive, it’s naïve,” said Amnon Rubinstein, a law professor […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel will take its concerns on the Iran nuclear agreement to the key players on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold said. “We’ll do it respectfully, but we have to tell the truth,” Gold said. In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the deal “repeats the mistakes […]
Special to WorldTribune.com As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the United States for its numerous concessions to Iran in nuclear negotiations, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that Israel is prepared to “defend ourselves, by ourselves.” At a July 12 Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu blasted the imminent deal and noted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments that the […]