Monthly Archives: July 2011

US ambassador to Israel James B. Cunningham told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin during a meeting Tuesday that President Barack Obama is planning an Israel trip.

Iran and its proxy Hizbullah continue to expand their influence and presence in South America, a top US general warns.

Syrian protests spread in numbers and frequency as Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces shoot to kill, wound an Olympic boxing champ and confiscate mobile phone videos.

Egyptians rioted in a Cairo courtroom Monday after a judge freed 10 police officers accused of killing protesters during the revolution that toppled the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.

The man who helped unseat former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and subsequently served as foreign minister has now become the new point man for the Arab world.

Arab MK Ahmed Tibi tries to introduce a bill that would deny funds to anyone refusing to recognize that Israel’s independence was a “catastrophe” (Nakba) for Arabs. The Knesset blocked his initiative.

Iran ”celebrates” Independence Day in the United States by saying the US has lost independence to foreign creditors and, of course, Israel.

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s soldiers secretly razed homes in the city of Hama, north of Damascus, amid his regime’s fears that the violent attempts to suppress the uprising might spell an all-out revolution.

The radical Islamic group Muslim Brotherhood is ready to speak with the United States but is conditioning talks on America’s support for Israel.

The pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan exploded early Monday morning, officials have said.