US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his disagreement with Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over how to pursue a Middle East peace deal was substantive, not personal. "I have a very business-like relationship with the prime minister," Obama told reporters at a joint White House news conference with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani.
US-Israel relations have been especially tense over the past several days, with US President Barack Obama giving a particularly cold reception to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's re-election last week. The many harsh statements that have been made over the past week are not in a vacuum, according to a senior diplomat - who claims
One of the icons of Israeli leftist culture, Joshua Sobol, during the campaign against Benjamin Netanyahu, defined religious Jews as stupid “mezuzah kissers”. This anti-religious perfidy contains the secret of the defeat of the Zionist Camp and the impressive victory of Netanyahu’s Likud. Israel’s élite was crushed by the “second Israel”, the title by
Middle East and Russian sources have confirmed that an Iranian ship has unloaded 185 tons of weapons at Yemen's Port Saleef to the Houthis, Iran's Shiite proxies in Yemen. Port Saleef connects directly with the capital, Sanaa, and is only about 500 miles – or 800 kilometers – south of Mecca, the holiest site in
Forty-five people, including five children, were killed in attacks on Syrian Kurds as they celebrated their new year, a monitor said Saturday, accusing the Islamic State (ISIS) group of responsibility. The attacks occurred Friday in what was one of ISIS's bloodiest days in Syria as the Sunni Muslim extremist group left dead more than
The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership has taken steps to "punish" Israel for the results of the 20th Knesset elections, releasing a document condemning the results in general and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in particular. On Thursday, the Palestine Liberation Organization (the terror group behind the PA; headed by Mahmoud Abbas - ed.) met in
I woke this morning in far off India to the news that Israel had done what I wanted it to do, what India did when the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, tried to interfere in their elections. Bennett's power is far greater than the 8 seats he now commands because he
The Islamic State (ISIS) group claimed to have beheaded three Iraqi Kurdish fighters in an online video and threatened to murder more unless the Kurds stop bombardment of jihadist-controlled areas. Peshmerga forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, backed by US-led air strikes, are battling ISIS in the country's north and have pushed the jihadists
The Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), held a meeting on Thursday in which it formulated a new economic plan to attack Israel and try to save the financially floundering Palestinian Authority (PA). PLO Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy Dr. Mohammed Mustafa revealed details of
An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted an interior minister of ousted president Hosni Mubarak of corruption charges, AFP reported. The former minister, Habib al-Adly, was cleared of illegally accumulating around 181 million Egyptian pounds ($25 million) and will be released, his lawyer Mohammed el-Gendy said. The court also lifted an asset freeze on
