Israel and Iran exchanged sharp criticisms at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee on Friday, accusing each other of being a major destabilizing force in the Middle East. Israeli Ambassador Alon Roth-Snir told the United Nations’ First Committee that “Iran remains the most significant threat to the security of the Middle East…
Israeli troops shot dead six Palestinians in protests in Gaza and a knife-wielding Jewish man wounded four Arabs in southern Israel on Friday in a wave of violence that has fueled talk of a new uprising against Israel. The soldiers shot across the border into Gaza after the Palestinians came too close to the Israeli…
Six people, including the wife and three children of a leader of Israeli settlers, were wounded in an accident caused by Palestinians who hurled stones at their car. Oriya Dagan, the wife of Yossi Dagan, head of the Regional Municipality of Samaria, and their children sustained minor injuries in the accident which occurred Friday afternoon…
National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s failure to cultivate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to a breakdown in U.S.-Israel communication, a former top U.S. official said. Dennis Ross, who was President Barack Obama’s top Iran advisor from 2009-2011, said frequent communications between the Obama and Netanyahu governments between 2009 and 2012 tamped down the Israeli…
The Council of Europe refuted reports in Israeli media that it had canceled a resolution from 2013 that called nonmedical circumcision of boys a harmful violation of children’s rights. The clarification Thursday on the position of the Council, a body for pan-European dialog that has no executive powers and is not part of the European…
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson blamed gun control for the extent of the Holocaust. In an interview Thursday on CNN, Carson said fewer people would have been killed by the Nazis had more citizens been armed. “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the…
Four Arabs were stabbed in a town in southern Israel on Friday and a Jewish suspect was arrested, police said. The attacks follow a surge in knife violence by Palestinians against Israelis. The stabbings took place in the town of Dimona and were all were believed to have been carried out by the same suspect,…
Citing Palestinian terrorism, Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the shelving of a plan for constructing government offices near the Western wall in east Jerusalem. The suspension Thursday of the Beit Haliba complex comes amid what Netahyahu described on Wednesday as a “wave of terror” by Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel, and especially…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday there was no quick fix for the latest wave of Palestinian lone-wolf attacks the Jewish state has faced in recent days and that strong steps would be taken against those inciting to violence. “We are in the midst of a wave of terror … the actions (we…
Four people, including an Israeli soldier, were stabbed and wounded near a military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, police and ambulance sources said, as a rash of such Palestinian attacks spread to Israel’s commercial capital. The assailant was shot and killed by another soldier as he fled, a police spokeswoman said. The spate of…
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority must run advertisements promoting a film called “The Muslims Are Coming!” in subways, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision on Wednesday countered an MTA policy instituted in April that had banned political ads from subways and buses after an anti-Islamic ad by Pamela Geller’s American…
