State of Israel - Page 19

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah criticized Saudi Arabia on Thursday night for an apparent warming of ties with Israel, accusing it of “normalizing for free, without receiving anything in return.”

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat drew parallels Saturday between the recent spate of terror attacks claimed by the Islamic State in Europe and Israeli actions in the West Bank.

Donald Trump hasn’t ruled out visiting Israel before the election.

Israel will send a representative to Washington next week to finalize a defense aid deal for the next decade but will not seek an increase for 2017, an Israeli official said on Monday.

In a video released Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Israel’s Arab citizens to take a more active part in society.

PHILADELPHIA – The Democrats continue to have an Israel problem. On the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention here, Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson reportedly compared Israeli settlers – meaning Jews living in the West Bank or eastern Jerusalem – to termites.

Alan Dershowitz, a staunch Democrat and emeritus law professor at Harvard University, stated in an interview on Sunday that the decision by Hillary Clinton’s vice president pick, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, to boycott Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was a “mark against” the candidate.

Jerusalem and Nicosia downplayed any crisis in ties as Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades flew to Israel Sunday evening for a hastily arranged meeting expected to focus on developments in Turkey and energy issues.

Jonathan Pollard, the former US Navy U.S intelligence officer convicted of one count of spying for an ally, Israel, petitioned a New York judge on Friday to overturn his highly restrictive probation conditions. In December, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest stated the

Actor James Caan, best known for his role as tough guy Santino “Sonny” Corleone in “The Godfather,” on Thursday toured Jewish settlements in the West Bank and urged Israel not to return to its pre-1967 lines.

Some 200 French Jews immigrated to Israel on a group flight Wednesday, in a sign of a continuing trend amid European jitters over increased anti-Semitism and terror attacks on the Continent.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to send “a message to Israeli Arabs: We will respond to every aggression with force. No one will be immune.”

Labour MP Naz Shah has agreed that comments which saw her suspended from the party in April were anti-Semitic and she apologised for online posts, including one suggesting Israel should be moved to the United States.

The international community is ignoring Iran’s violation of its nuclear agreement with world powers, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman lamented Monday, making his first appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

The cabinet on Sunday approved a preliminary version of a law that would encourage illegal migrants to leave the country by mandating that 36 percent of the migrant’s salary be put into an account that the worker would receive only after leaving the country.

Newly-appointed UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is a vocal supporter of Israel and a critic of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

A major crossing point between Gaza and Israel is set to reopen for the first time in nine years, the Israeli government announced Wednesday.

The Israeli public trusts the IDF more than any other state institution while political parties received the lowest level of public trust, according to a survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) last year and published on Sunday.

Israel Police officers from the Southern District have arrested hundreds of Palestinians who entered the country without legal work permits since the beginning of the year, according to new figures released Wednesday.

“Sometime after the Six Day War the settlement enterprise began to develop. In your opinion, from a perspective of 50 years later, has the settlement enterprise contributed to or damaged Israel’s national interest?” was one of the opening questions in a June survey comparing the attitudes of Israeli Jews and Arabs on the liberated territories.

Turkish aid shipments arrived in the Gaza Strip via Israel on Monday, a week after Israel and Turkey announced they would end a six-year rupture and normalize ties.

Ynetnews reports: Elie Wiesel never lived in Israel, but on Sunday the country mourned the death of the esteemed author and Nobel peace laureate as though it had lost a national icon. A frequent visitor who was fluent in Hebrew, Wiesel

Liberal Democrats who care about American exceptionalism, Israel, the Middle East, and America’s role in the world will have a “problem” and those who champion such issues will always be in a state of conflict, declared Alan Dershowitz, a staunch Democrat and emeritus law professor at Harvard University.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israelis and Palestinians not to allow extremists on either side to fan violence, as he arrived as part of a Middle East tour.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s recent address at the European Parliament again proved he was an unsuitable partner for pursuing peace.

Israel’s new Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman is to visit the United States this weekend for talks with his US counterpart, his office said Thursday, after Washington raised concerns over the hardliner’s appointment.

TEL AVIV – As the debate over Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border continues to dominate the presidential race, Israel is reportedly planning to move ahead with a massive above and underground concrete barrier across the entire nearly 37-mile border with the Gaza Strip.

After an Israeli politician publicly questioned Facebook’s apparent double standards regarding political stances on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the social media company apologized for taking down a pro-Israel post and restored its presence online.

The next war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will be the last for the Islamist regime, a senior source in the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, though he stressed that Israel will not be the side to initiate hostilities.

TEL AVIV – President Obama “seems more in support of Muslims than Israel,” Donald Trump stated in the wake of the Orlando terrorist shooting massacre.

Brazil’s Foreign Minister Jose Serra intends to change Brazil’s anti-Israel vote given in April at a United Nations session, where rights for cultural assets in the areas conquered in the Six-Day War were discussed, Brazilian media reported.

Alan Dershowitz writes at the Daily Beast: Pundits and commentators Sunday proclaimed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order “unconstitutional” and “McCarthyite.” Such verdicts are wrong, and somewhat ironic given the McCarthyite aspects of the BDS movement itself.

Sirens are set to go off in Tel Aviv Tuesday morning, as part of a routine drill. They will be heard in four phases throughout the city. On the off chance that a true emergency will take place, a second alarm will also be heard.

They came with drums, hundreds of Israeli flags attached to cheap sticks, and shirts with images of a rebuilt Jewish Temple on them.

The graduation ceremony for the Islamic Al-Hoda kindergarten in Gaza featured “children, clad in Islamic Jihad fatigues, demonstrated the planting of anti-tank mines, the killing and kidnapping of enemy soldiers, the launching of mortars, and more,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a 14-year-old Arab peace plan in trying to project a softer image internationally for a new governing coalition in Israel widely seen as more hardline toward Palestinian statehood.