Israel and Hamas held indirect talks in Qatar on Monday, according to a Palestinian official, ahead of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 meeting in Washington with President Donald Trump, who is pushing for a deal on Gaza...
An Israeli court on Sunday postponed prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay with the support of US president Donald Trump, in a ruling published by the premier鈥檚 party...
Israel鈥檚 prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu must leave office, his predecessor Naftali Bennett has told a televised interview, refusing to say whether he intends to challenge the country鈥檚 longest-serving leader in an election...
THE Middle East is teetering on the edge of a full-scale regional war after the US military, in coordination with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo on June 21. Iran鈥檚 swift retaliation, declaring US positions and citizens in the region as legitimate targets, culminated in an attack on a US...
UNLIKE Russia鈥檚 quarrel with Kyiv or China鈥檚 claim to Taiwan, Washington鈥檚 war with Iran is not rooted in a national dispute with the US. It is a project subcontracted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Donald Trump 鈥� a president addicted to flattery and drama 鈥� puffed by grandiose...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel was 鈥榗hanging the face of the world鈥� in its war with Iran, as he welcomed 鈥榓ll help鈥� in destroying the Islamic republic's nuclear sites.
THE Orwellian G7 statement described Israel鈥檚 military attacks on Iran as 鈥榮elf鈥慸efence.鈥� By twisting language to fit political ends, the communiqu茅 normalises aggression and offers diplomatic cover for Israel鈥檚 serial violations of international law. Rather than condemning Israeli dangerous escalation, the G7 resorts to vague calls for 鈥榙e-escalation,鈥� effectively...
FOR nearly 30 years, Israel鈥檚 prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has driven the Middle East into war and destruction. The man is a powder keg of violence. Throughout all the wars that he has championed, Netanyahu has always dreamed of the big one: to defeat and overthrow the Iranian Government. His long-sought war, just launched, might just get us all killed in a...
Iran launched a new wave of missiles at Israel on Saturday, wounding several people in residential buildings, while Israel said it was striking Tehran.
Israel鈥檚 prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that a wave of Israeli strikes on Iran had been 鈥榲ery successful,鈥� warning they were only the opening salvos in a broader campaign against the Islamic republic.
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court including over an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as it ramped up pressure to neuter the court of last resort...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli attacks on Monday killed at least 52 people, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory...
Iran鈥檚 foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday accused Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to drag the United States into 鈥榙isaster鈥� in the Middle East, warning against any attempt to attack Iran.
Israel was issuing orders to call up tens of thousands of reservists ahead of an expanded offensive in Gaza, Israeli media reported Saturday, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked truce mediator Qatar...
Iran accused Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of trying to dictate US policy in negotiations, after he called for the complete dismantling of Tehran鈥檚 nuclear programme and for the inclusion of its ballistic missile capabilities in any deal.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel鈥檚 very foundation as a settler colonial project...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to travel to Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump, discussing issues including tariffs and the 鈥業ranian threat,鈥� his office said Saturday.
Hungary on Thursday said it will quit the International Criminal Court, just as prime minister Viktor Orban hosted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the tribunal has accused of war crimes in Gaza.
ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that Israel will carry out Trump鈥檚 ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, saying the following on Sunday about 鈥榯he final stage鈥� of his agenda:..
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked former navy commander Eli Sharvit聽to head the domestic security agency, his office said on Monday, despite the supreme court freezing the incumbent鈥檚 dismissal....
ISRAELI forces have killed more than 400 people in Gaza over the past 24 hours, including more than 100 children, according to Palestinian officials...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would ensure 鈥楬amas pays the full price鈥� for failing to hand over Israeli mother Shiri Bibas after the militant group released a body Israel said was not hers....
PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...
Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries condemned on Sunday remarks by Israel鈥檚 prime minister who appeared to suggest in an interview that a Palestinian state could be established on Saudi territory...
ON FEBRUARY 4, in a press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump unveiled a plan as audacious as it is alarming: the United States would 鈥榯ake over鈥� the Gaza Strip, forcibly displace its 1.8 million Palestinian residents and redevelop the territory into a luxury enclave he dubbed 鈥榯he Riviera of the...
Israeli police are conducting a criminal investigation into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the office of the state attorney said in a letter made public on Sunday...
TWINNING the terms 鈥榗easefire鈥� and 鈥楪aza鈥� seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel鈥檚 hand, and Israeli prime minister...
I DO not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend...
THE pendulum of zealotry almost always ushers in intellectual subterfuge in its wake. The lightning, if not spontaneous, takeover of Damascus by mediaeval militias is being predictably applauded by Western journalists as an overthrow of a 50-year-old family dictatorship...
