The Obama administration last night announced that Israel and the PA have agreed to resume the peace process through indirect negotiations, facilitated by US special envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell, but hopes they will lead to direct negotiations. Furthermore, according to Ha’aretz, Mitchell told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas [...]
Following Sunday’s Hamas denial that it had been infiltrated by Israel’s Mossad, comes word that the son of founding Hamashole Sheikh Hassan Yousef worked for the Shin Bet. The son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service’s most valuable source in [...]
During talks yesterday in Brussels, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband demanded full cooperation from Israel with a British inquiry into the use of bogus passports. The Serious and Organized Crime Agency (who I guess are serious and organized -ed.) or SOCA is investigating how the identities of British citizens were stolen. “He made clear that [...]
With Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu set to visit Russia, senior Russian security officials said that Moscow sees no reason to delay the sale of the powerful S-300 air-defense system to Iran. “There is a signed contract [for the S-300 missiles] which we must follow through on, but deliveries have not started yet,” Vladimir Nazarov, deputy [...]
Syrian dorktator Bashar Assad has responded to recent statements by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak by stating Israel is pushing the region towards war. Israel is pushing the Middle East toward a new war, Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Wednesday. “Israel is not serious about achieving peace since all facts point out that Israel [...]
PA President Mahmoud Abbas has warned Israeli President Shimon Peres that a third intifada beckons due to the deadlock in negotiations. Umm, say what? President Shimon Peres recently warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that continuing the deadlock in negotiations with Israel could lead to a third intifada and that in delaying, Abbas was “playing [...]
Turkey officially accepted Israel’s apology for “Undiplomatigate” – made possible thanks to a request by Israeli President Shimon Peres – with sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry reportedly saying “Sometimes, nations have their differences, but we cannot abide such humiliation. Only kings would place commoners on lower chairs. You’re lucky you have Peres, the wise [...]
Head Hamashole Ismail Haniyeh appealed to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to halt the construction of an underground separation fence on the Sinai border. In a speech marking the first anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, Ismail Haniyeh turned to “the air force hero” (Mubarak was the commander of the Egyptian Air Force during the Yom Kippur [...]
Syrian Dorktator Bashar al-Assad said that peace talks with Israel have been stalled because Israel was not interested in achieving peace. “We discussed today the ways to bring the peace process out of the deadlock that it has reached … because of the absence of a serious Israeli partner who aims to achieve peace,” he [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Syria is now willing to negotiate without preconditions, having retracted its earlier insistence that talks could not begin unless Israel first agreed to withdraw from the entire Golan Heights. “But when I met with Sarkozy [last month], he told me [...]
