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A Palestinian bid to have Israeli defense chief Ehud Barak arrested for alleged war crimes during a visit to Britain has failed, a lawyer for the groups involved said Tuesday.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested Monday that a diplomat who warned that government policy was causing a dangerous rift in Israel-U.S. ties should resign.
Israel's prime minister and the top U.S. Mideast envoy said they made progress Tuesday on their dispute over West Bank settlements, but offered no sign of a breakthrough at a meeting in Jerusalem.
An Israeli defense official says Defense Minister Ehud Barak is to hold a second round of talks with U.S. special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell next week in an effort to resolve differences between the two sides on Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Israel is considering what it can do to enable a full-fledged Mideast peace process and Palestinian-Israeli negotiations to take off, including instituting a temporary freeze on settlements, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday.
Israel has approved 50 new houses in a West Bank settlement just as Israel's defense minister left Monday for Washington to try to defuse growing tension with the Obama administration over such construction.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged Arab countries to make immediate moves toward normalizing ties with Israel and said he would offer "concrete" steps toward peace with the Palestinians.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak hopes to buy a U.S. missile defense system to protect Israeli towns from short-range rockets and mortar fire, defense officials said Tuesday.
Israel's president ushered in a right-leaning parliament Tuesday and gave lawmakers a tall order: conclude an elusive peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of their term.
Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the Gaza Strip and a militant died in a clash with troops on the border Monday, as an official of the moderate Palestinian government accused Hamas of trying to boost hawkish candidates in Israel's election.
France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood.
Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel on Monday, demonstrating that Hamas still had firepower three days into Israel's punishing air offensive in Gaza.
Israel moved closer to invading Gaza, saying Thursday it had wrapped up preparations for a broad offensive after Palestinian militants fired about 100 rockets and mortar shells across the border in two days.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is warning that if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States.
Israeli leaders are seriously considering a dormant Saudi plan offering a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world in exchange for lands captured during the 1967 war, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met briefly Tuesday on the sidelines of a worldwide socialist party conference near Athens.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that his Labor Party will support dissolving Israel's parliament if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert doesn't step aside over his latest corruption scandal.
Ehud Olmert is heading to Washington for what could be his last trip there as Israel's prime minister.
Clashes on Friday between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left five militants dead, further undermining efforts to bring a brief truce to the violence-wracked area.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he would not pull his faction from the government over its handling of the 2006 war against Hezbollah guerillas, an announcement that removed any immediate threat to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's administration.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference would take place in the last week of November, and he expected invitations to be issued "in the coming days."
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday approved an Israeli plan for limited cuts in electricity to Gaza to counter continued rocket fire from the territory, officials said.
The Gaza Strip will soon become entirely dependent on foreign aid and face "disastrous consequences" if the Hamas-run territory remains sealed off, the U.N. said Thursday.
Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister tossed out of office six years ago in a humiliating election defeat, won the leadership of the dovish Labor Party on Wednesday in a dramatic political comeback.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Turkish TV series angers IsraelIsrael's foreign minister has ordered Turkey's ambassador to be summoned over a Turkish TV series that portrays Israeli soldiers killing children. Avigdor Lieberman said the programme, whose first episode was broadcast on Tuesday, incited hatred against Israel.
Dangerous currents in PalestineThe social and economic life in Jerusalem and the West Bank appears to be on a positive upwards trend.
Talks of Peace, Threats of War Many of the Obama administration's biggest guns have been sent to the Mideast in an all-out effort to get America's squabbling allies to accept a comprehensive regional peace deal.
No deal on settlements - MitchellUS envoy George Mitchell and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not agree on a Jewish settlement freeze in talks today but said negotiations were advancing.
Israel's Barak: 'No option' off table on IranIsrael's defense minister told visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday that his country is taking "no option" off the table regarding Iran's nuclear program, indicating that a military strike remains a possibility even as the U.S.
U.S. Source: Strike on Iran Means 'End of Obama,' 20 Year War. by Gil Ronen. Av 5, 5769 / July 26, 2009A senior U.S. source told Asharq Al-Awsat that if there is a war against Iran, Barack Obama's presidency "will be over" and so will the peace process in the Middle East.
Palestinians reject any Israel-U.S. settlement dealRAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinians reject any deal between Israel and the United States that would allow even limited Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, a top Palestinian negotiator said on Sunday.
Last weekend, the United Nations held a public hearing in Gaza where Palestinians had the chance to report their personal accounts of the 2009 Gaza War.
Israel May Shift on Settlements Freeze Amid Broader Effort Israel would be open to a complete freeze of settlement building in the West Bank for three to six months as part of a broad Middle East peace endeavor that included a Palestinian agreement to negotiate an end to the conflict and confidence-building steps by major Arab nations, s …
US tells Benjamin Netanyahu: no raids on Iran nuke sites. John Lyons, Middle East correspondent | May 15, 2009US President Barack Obama has sent a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the US with a military operation against Iran, according to reports yesterday in Israel.
Israel wants to buy U.S. missile defense systemDefense Minister Ehud Barak hopes to buy a U.S. missile defense system to protect Israeli towns from short-range rockets and mortar fire, defense officials said Tuesday.
Israel's Netanyahu Pursues Partnership With Labor Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu opened coalition talks with the center-left Labor Party on Monday, seeking an alternative to a right-wing government that could lead to friction with Washington over Middle East peace.
Outgoing Israeli Defense Minister Says Israel will Stop at Nothing to Deny Iran NukesOutgoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak sounded an urgent tone regarding Iran's development of nuclear weapons in a speech he delivered in Netanya Wednesday evening. "Time is running out fast and oozing between our fingers," Barak said.
The world is barely starting to comprehend the widespread damage wrought by eight years of a right wing American administration and now a new threat to World and Middle East progress and peace arises in the form of Israel's right wing Likud and Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu נְ …
Grieving Gaza doctor demands Israel explainThe Gaza doctor who recounted live on Israeli television how his three daughters and niece had just been killed by shelling demanded on Wednesday that Israel's defense minister explain their deaths.
Grieving Gaza doctor demands Israel explainThe Gaza doctor who recounted live on Israeli television how his three daughters and niece had just been killed by shelling demanded on Wednesday that Israel's defense minister explain their deaths.
Grieving Gaza doctor demands Israel explainThe Gaza doctor who recounted live on Israeli television how his three daughters and niece had just been killed by shelling demanded on Wednesday that Israel's defense minister explain their deaths.
Barak: We will continue Gaza warIsraeli Defense Minister has ruled out the possibility of halting the ongoing offensive against the Gaza Strip for diplomatic efforts.
The Dangerous Lives Of Doves in Israel: The war has revived Israel's leftists, but it's killing their chances of a deal with Palestinian moderatesOnly a few weeks ago, Ehud Barak's political prospects were a joke.
Israel Rejected Hamas Cease-Fire Offer in DecemberContrary to Israel's argument that it was forced to launch its air and ground offensive against Gaza in order to stop the firing of rockets into its territory, Hamas proposed in mid-December to return to the original Hamas-Israel cease-fire arrangement, according to a U.S.-based …
Sarkozy heads out for Gaza peace push - Middle East, World - The IndependentThe French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office says he has left for the Middle East to meet with Israeli, Palestinian and other regional leaders in a push to end the fighting in Gaza.
So Much For Mid-East Peace: Israel Declares "War to the Bitter End"Israel's defence Minister, Ehud Barak, warned yesterday that his country was engaged in "a war to the bitter end" with Hamas as a third day of fierce bombing brought the estimated Gaza death toll to 320.
Israel attacks Gaza, more than 140 reported killed Israeli war planes and combat helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today, killing at least 140 people and prompting rocket fire from Palestinian militants that killed an Israeli, medics said.
The US Elections, Israel and PalestineThe US Elections have come and gone. Many of us are pleased that Barack Obama had won these elections.
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