Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to attend a three-day regional summit starting Monday in Istanbul, to be chaired by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, according to the Fars news agency. Among those attending the third summit on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) will be heads of state from Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Macedonia, Kazakhistan and Azerbaijan.
Prominent Islamic Brotherhood terrorist Mahmoud Abu-Tir of eastern Jerusalem has been ordered to leave Israel, on the backdrop of his refusal to resign from the Hamas legislature.
Terrorists in Gaza fired rockets at the city of Ashkelon Thursday night
1,500 Israelis held a protest Thursday opposite the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he did not view radical Palestinian group Hamas, Israel's arch-foe, as a terrorist organization.
Greece is the cradle of Western Civilization and the inspiration of the founding democratic principles and values of the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Sheikh Raed Salah, anti Semitic leader of the northern branch of the Islamic movement, was welcomed back to the Israeli-Arab city of Umm el-Fahm on Thursday after spending several days under arrest. Hundreds of people greeted the sheikh with cries of “Allah is great,†and “The sheikh is a hero.â€
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the 'Septet' of leading ministers Thursday evening that the Gaza-bound Irish ship "Rachel Corrie," and all other vessels, will not break Israel's blockade of Gaza, "not now and not in the future."
A perusal of The Helsinki Principles on the Law of Maritime Neutrality, a basis for international law on the subject, shows that Israel was well within its prescriptions in forcibly stopping the Gaza-bound flotilla.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went on the offensive Wednesday to defend Israel's right to protect its territorial waters.