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Peres: Iran A Threat To US, Europe

AP | Posted 06.04.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — Israel's president charged Monday that Iran's nuclear program threatens the United States, Europe and Arab nations, as well as Isra...

Netanyahu May Be Bringing Israel Closer To 'Second Holocaust': Analysis

Haaretz | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actions are shaped by a profound conviction that Israel will be in danger of extermination if Iran has nuclear wea...

Mislabeled Israeli-Grown Oranges Spark Panic In Iran

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.29.2009 | World


Here's a juicy story: Panic erupted over the weekend in Tehran after Iranian authorities were horrified to discover that citrus fruit being snatched u...

Avigdor Lieberman: Iran Is Obstacle To Mideast Peace

AP | Posted 05.25.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Iran is the main obstacle to peace in the Mideast, Israel's new foreign minister said in an interview published Friday. Avigdor Lie...

Peres: China Is Key To Iran Policy

UPI | Posted 05.24.2009 | World


Israeli President Shimon Peres said Thursday that China is a vital part of international efforts to limit Iran's controversial nuclear program....

Netanyahu Doesn't Care About Obama's Peace Plan: MJ Rosenberg

Israel Policy Forum | Posted 05.23.2009 | World


There can be no doubt: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not much care what President Obama thinks about negotiations with the Palestinians. He s...

Israel Battles Iran By Recruiting Gay Community

Haaretz | Posted 05.21.2009 | World


Israel is stepping up its public relations effort to discredit Iran within the international community, and part of its new campaign focuses on Tehran...

Israel, US To Hold Largest-Ever Joint Missile Defense Drill

Jerusalem Post | YAAKOV KATZ | Posted 05.15.2009 | World


In the face of Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear capability, Israel and the United States will hold an unprecedented and massive exercise later this...

Israel's Peres: Clash Between Iran, Sunni Arabs 'Inevitable'

Haaretz | Posted 05.14.2009 | World


"The collision between the Middle East, which is Sunni Arab, and the Iranian minority that seeks to take it over, is inevitable," said Peres....

Obama's Recommended Bedtime Reading: Iranian-Israeli History

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.10.2009 | World


Last night, after he had made a grocery-store run, helped put his two kids to bed, and answered reporters' phone calls about Washington's decision to ...

'Israel Cries Wolf' On Iranian Nukes: Cohen

New York Times | Posted 05.10.2009 | World


"Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear...

Avigdor Lieberman: Iran Should Be Priority, Not Palestinians

Press TV | Posted 05.09.2009 | World


Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Israel should shift its focus from the Palestinian issue to "the biggest problem", Iran. Defending t...

Israel Tests Anti-Missile System Successfully

USA Today | Posted 05.08.2009 | World


Israel successfully tested an anti-missile system designed to protect the country against Iranian attack, the Defense Ministry said, perfecting techno...

Petraeus: Israel Might Attack Iran

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.02.2009 | World


The top U.S. commander in the Middle East, General David Petraeus, warned today that Israel might attack Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear we...

Netanyahu To Obama: Stop Iran, Or I Will

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...

Israel's Covert War On Iran To Continue Despite Disapproving White House

Middle East Times | RICHARD SALE (Middle East Times Intelligence Correspondent) | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


Facing mounting U.S. opposition behind the scenes, Israel still plans to continue a covert operation to delay Iran's nuclear program by assassinating ...

Haneen Zuabi, New Arab-Israeli Knesset Member, Praises Iranian Nuclear Ambitions

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


New Balad MK Haneen Zuabi, the first woman to be elected to the Knesset as a representative of an Arab party, has welcomed Iran's growing influence on...

US Judge Orders Iran To Pay $25M For IDF Soldier's Murder

AP | Posted 04.27.2009 | World


A U.S. judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $25 million plus interest to the family of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman, who was kidnapped and execut...

Israel Could Use Ballistic Missiles Against Iran: Report

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2009 | World


Ballistic missiles could be Israel's weapon of choice against Iranian nuclear facilities if it decides on a pre-emptive attack and deems air strikes t...

Iran Looms Over Clinton's Mideast Trip

Nytimes.com | MARK LANDLER | Posted 04.05.2009 | World


RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Iran is not on Hillary Rodham Clinton's itinerary in her first swing through the Middle East and Europe as secretary of state. ...

Israeli Parliament Sworn In, President Calls For Peace

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.27.2009 | World


The 18th Knesset was sworn in today in Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu continues to try to form a coalition government. Israeli President Shimon Peres o...

Israel Launches Covert War Against Iran: Hitmen, Sabotage, Front Companies, Double Agents

Telegraph | Philip Sherwell in New York | Posted 03.19.2009 | World


It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime's illicit weapons project, the experts say. The most dramatic e...

Let Truth Trump Fear in the Jewish Community

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


Jeremy Ben-Ami

Let's hope the real victor in 2008 is the Jewish community -- as it finally excises the politics of fears and smears and forces candidates to debate the issues on the merits.

Iran's Offensive in Latin America: The Chicago Connection

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago


Esther J. Cepeda

Tuesday morning, the Honorable Eyal Sela, Israel's Ambassador to Ecuador, held a roundtable discussion about Iran's growing influence in Latin America.

Will We Pay the Price If Israel Hits Iran?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics


MJ Rosenberg

The whole question of whether Israel's actions can jeopardize us here is fraught with troubling questions. But they have to be raised.