Avigdor Lieberman Grilled By Police On Corruption Allegations, Again
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on Friday for the second time since being sworn into his position earlier this week. Pol...
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on Friday for the second time since being sworn into his position earlier this week. Pol...
Inter Press Service | Stephen Green | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Apr 2 (IPS) - The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led governme...
The Jewish Week | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sworn in on Tuesday as head of a cobbled-together coalition that has produced jitters in Washington, is an old hand...
AP | SEBASTIAN SCHEINER | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
BAT AYIN, West Bank — A Palestinian killed an Israeli teenager with a pickax and seriously injured a 7-year-old boy in a rampage through this We...
GlobalPost | C.M. Sennott | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
In the land of the biblical patriarchs, the stories of fathers and sons matter. And the story of the Netanyahu family is something as ancient as Le...
Haaretz | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
New foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that Israel was not bound by commitments it made at a U.S.-sponsored conference to pursue cre...
The New Yorker | Seymour M. Hersh | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
When the Israelis' controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks betw...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
In an exclusive interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Tuesday, just before he was sworn in as Israel's new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...
Jerusalem Post | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday afternoon commended his soon-to-be predecessor Ehud Olmert for his peace efforts and said the Li...
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his government will be a "partner for peace with the Palestinians," the la...
Jerusalem Post | GIL HOFFMAN and JPOST STAFF | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Defense Minister and Labor Chairman Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu met early Tuesday morning and came to an agreement on a...
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought a nationalist religious party into what is shaping up to be a narrow, hawkish coa...
Haaretz | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
President Shimon Peres on Friday accorded Prime Minister-designate a 14-day extension to form a government. ...
Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) - After Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in October 2005 for an end to the state of Israel, Israeli leaders bega...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
Underlying the prospect for renewed diplomacy with Damascus is the universally accepted possibility that Assad will merely feign peace efforts without ever following through -- for which he, and his father before him, are notorious.
Al Jezeera | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, is set to begin work on deciding who will become the country's next prime minister and lead a governing coalition...
Jerusalem Post | By GIL HOFFMAN | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
The Likud and Kadima will be able to form a government together under the leadership of Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu, on the basis of equality be...
The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.14.2009 | World
Israel's new coalition government will be led by Kadima's Tzipi Livni or Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. Tzipi Livni is the foreign minister of Israel. ...
Huffington Post | HuffPost Contributors | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
Israelis head to the polls tomorrow, February 10, to vote in a new government. Huffington Post contributors from Israel to Ramallah to DC have shared ...
Natan Sachs | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
Israel's inability to stay out of the news for long is due not merely to hawkish administrations or a near-impossible region. The lack of strategic leadership is also the product of a broken political system.
David Makovsky | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
On February 10, Israelis will go to the polls to choose a new government, and the election campaigning -- curtailed by Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip -- has resumed in earnest.
Haaretz | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
United States Mideast envoy George Mitchell on Friday told Likud Chair Benjamin Netanyahu he plans to return to Israel shortly after February's genera...
Nytimes.com | ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
JERUSALEM -- With two weeks to go before the Israeli elections, the politicians who seem to have benefited the most from the military offensive agains...
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — The front-runner in Israel's election said in an interview published Monday that he would let Jewish settlements expand in the West ...
Robert Scheer | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of George Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state?
Haaretz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World