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Israel to deport all African immigrants from Holy Land
Many Israelis say the volume of African migration has become socially overwhelming, even though most live in areas also populated by other migrants, including Filipinos, Chinese and Nepalese workers.
Israel has initiated the first stage of a controversial “emergency plan” aimed at interning and deporting an estimated 60,000 African immigrants. Officials believe the presence of the Africans poses...
7 Israelis die, dozens injured in Bulgaria bus explosion, Iran accused
Smoke rises from Burgas International Airport in Bulgaria after a bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded at the airport on July 18, 2012.
At least seven people have been killed and more than 30 others injured in an explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the eastern Bulgarian city of Burgas.
According to this RT report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Tehran for the bombing...
Israeli protester sets himself on fire in critical condition
An Israeli man sets himself on fire during protest in Tel Aviv on July 14, 2012.
An Israeli protester, who set himself ablaze on Saturday night in the city of Tel Aviv, is fighting for his life after suffering extensive burns.
Moshe Silman poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire during a social justice demonstration. He was sent to Sheba Medical Center early on Sunday.
Israeli President...
Israeli lawmakers to dissolve Knesset
Israel’s Knesset
Israeli lawmakers are scheduled to dissolve the Knesset amid divisions among different political parties in the Tel Aviv regime.
Israel’s Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently called for the dissolution of Knesset and an early general election to be held on September 4.
Likud chairman Zeev Elkin said on May 2 that September 4 is the agreed date for the...
Former Israeli PM slams Netanyahu's Iran warmongering policy
Israel's current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Former PM Ehud Olmert and the recently-resigned Kadima leader Tzipi Livni have joined the chorus of past and present senior Israeli politicians criticizing the government and its warmongering policy against Iran.
Livni announced her resignation as leader of the centrist liberal Kadima party on Tuesday, saying in her speech that Netanyahu’s...
US gives 115 Billion Dollars Aid to Israel
US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
New data shows Washington has given more than 115 billion dollars in financial aid to Israel over the years, indicating Tel Aviv’s great dependence on the US.
According to the report published by the Congressional Research Service Israel has received more assistance from the US than 15 European countries did to recover from the...
Russian FM warns of catastrophic consequences of Iran attack
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against any Israeli measure or even an attack on Iran’s nuclear energy development sites, insisting that it would be a “huge mistake.”
“We believe this would be a huge mistake and we hope that this would never happen,” said Lavrov in an interview with the Afghan channel Tolonews on Monday.
He added...
Israel will continue its campaign against Gazaf
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue its campaign against Gaza “as long as necessary,” despite the fact that a recent air strike killed a 12-year-old boy in a refugee camp, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 17.
“We extracted a high price from them and will continue to do so. We will act as long as necessary,” Netanyahu told the government on Sunday, as quoted...
US offers Israel advanced arms for not attacking Iran
The US has proposed that Israel withhold from waging an assault on Iran till the next presidential term in America in exchange for most advanced weaponry, reports the Israeli Maariv newspaper. However,the White House denies the claim.
The proposal was supposedly made during the visit of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, the newspaper says, citing unnamed diplomats and intelligence sources.
It...
Netanyahu: No Lebanon will be on the map
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman
Israel what was that about MAPS?
For years, the paranoid Israelis have been screaming bloody murder that the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that “Israel should be wiped from the map.” Of course, the man said no such thing, it was a deliberate mis-translation meant to serve their purposes: to demonize Ahmadinejad and Iran and to justify an...
Obama threatens Iran with military attack over N-energy case
US President Barack Obama
The United States has once again threatened Iran with a military strike over the country’s nuclear energy program while warning Israel of the unintended consequences of attacking the Islamic Republic.
In an interview with Atlantic magazine on Friday, US President Barack Obama said the US is “not taking any option off the table” in order to stop Iran’s nuclear energy...
NIE report shows US knows Iran not after nuclear weapon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are to meet in Washington on March 5 to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.
Despite the recent US and Israeli hype created around Iran’s nuclear program, a report by American intelligence agencies indicates that Tehran is not seeking to build nuclear weapons.
The most recent report on Iran’s nuclear program “represents the...
Israeli embassies in Georgia, India targeted in bomb attacks
Indian security and forensic officials examine a car belonging to the Israel embassy after the explosion in New Delhi, India, on February 13, 2012.
The Israel embassies in India and Georgia have been targeted by bomb attacks, with one bomb going off in New Delhi and injuring two people, and the second device in Tbilisi defused.
In New Delhi, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when an embassy...
Netanyah urges Likud ministers to avoid anti-Iran remarks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned ministers from his center-right Likud political party to avoid making statements on a possible military attack against Iran, saying such remarks could be damaging to Israel.
“The chatter causes extensive damage, puts Israel on the front line and impedes the sanction efforts,” Ynetnews quoted Netanyahu...
Israel ready to strike Iran without Washington's approval?
Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama
Both American and Israeli officials say that the decision to postpone a massive joint missile drill scheduled for this spring has nothing to do with hostilities with Iran, although insiders suggest something quite the contrary.
The Austere Challenge 12 drill, originally scheduled for April 2012, was slated to be the largest missile drill ever conducted in cooperation...