by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2016 Peace in the Middle East “runs through Jerusalem and Ramallah, not New York,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22. In repeating his call for direct talks with the Palestinians, Netanyahu rejected any UN plan to unilaterally impose […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2016 Iran’s leadership will never use a nuclear weapon if they produce one because Teheran knows Israel has 200 nukes pointed at the Islamic Republic, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an email leaked to the public last week. “Iranians can’t use one if they finally make […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 A new flotilla of “The Women’s Boat to Gaza” left from Barcelona, Spain on Sept. 14 with the intent of breaking the Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza strip. Two boats, the Amal and the Zaytouna, each carry 11 women, among them Swedish European Parliament Member Malin Bjork and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 The U.S. Embassy in Israel has issued a travel advisory for the Golan Heights after several mortar rounds fired from Syria landed in the northern Golan Heights in recent days. “We urge U.S. citizens to carefully consider and possibly defer travel to that area until the situation stabilizes,” the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2016 The Obama administration touted its largest ever $38 billion military aid deal with Israel which was finalized without the input of Congress and is being criticized by Israeli defense contractors. Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said Congress is not bound by the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and discounted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2016 An adviser to Donald Trump said the GOP candidate believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “made exactly the right point” in saying that the Palestinian Authority’s demand for a Palestinian state free of Jews amounts to “ethnic cleansing.” Trump adviser David Friedman also said the Obama administration “should be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey It is widely recognized, almost to the point of being a cliché, that, in the past half-century, astonishing scientific and technological advances have far outpaced the political, economic and social structures within which they take place. Indeed, as millions of Syrians and others can testify, there has not only […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2016 The U.S. State Department said it “strongly disagrees” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments equating the goal of Palestinians for a state with no Jews to “ethnic cleansing.” “[T]he Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one pre-condition: No Jews. There’s a phrase for that: It’s called […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2016 The contracts of 120 Palestinian employees of World Vision in the Gaza Strip were canceled after Israel’s recent arrest of the head of the non-governmental organization (NGO) for diverting millions of the charity’s funds to Hamas. “They informed 120 employees from World Vision in Gaza they were officially canceling […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 A report that revealed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in the 1980s is being called a “smear campaign” by Fatah leaders. A Sept. 7 report by Israel’s Channel 1 television, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR, said […]
