Sets up collision course over issue of Palestinian statehood. In a further jolt to U.S. influence in the Middle East, China is expected to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood when the 66th United Nations General Assembly takes up the issue next month, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Chinese President Hu Jintao told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an exchange of notes last... 

The statement, aired on Hamas-controlled radio on early Saturday, said “There is no more truce with an enemy”. Hamas has called off its truce with Tel-Aviv as Israel and Palestine continue hostilities into a third day. The Gaza Strip has been targeted by the Israeli air force in overnight raids. ­“Aircraft targeted two terror tunnels and a weapons storage facility in the southern Gaza Strip,... 

Israel's Navy head Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom. Israel’s Navy says it will not allow a new international flotilla of ships to break the blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip and reached the coastal sliver. Speaking at a ceremony marking the completion of Israeli navy’s submarine training course on Sunday, Navy head Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom said Israel’s navy is going ahead... 

Pro-Palestinians protesters take cover from Israeli forces shooting near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria who rushed to the frontier fence in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty. Syrian state-run media said 23 were killed. “Anyone who tries to cross the border will be... 

An Israeli tank maneuvers just outside the southern Gaza Strip. Ten more Palestinians have lost their lives and dozens of others, including children, have been injured in separate Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, reports say. On the deadliest day of the shelling of the strip on Friday since the end of the Gaza war two years ago, Israeli tanks and warplanes struck heavily on the northern... 

A classified State Department cable released yesterday confirmed that it has for years been official Israeli policy to allow so little aid into the Gaza Strip as to keep it forever on the brink of collapse. A cable leaked today has revealed corruption made the situation even worse. The new cable, dated from 2006, reports that a number of American companies were complaining to the State Department... 

Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a building near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, targeting suspected militants, the military said. Witnesses said the strikes hit a multi-storey building and that tanks also opened fire shortly afterwards. Palestinian medical sources said there were no casualties and that a group of people inside the building was able to escape. Israeli... 

Activist Samar al-Hajj, organiser of the Mariam women-only aid ship which plans to break the Gaza blockade, speaks during a press conference at the entrance of Tripoli's harbour on August 19. Israel said Friday it could use force to stop a new aid boat to Gaza, as Lebanon refused to bow to warnings against authorizing an all-women ship to head for the blockaded Palestinian territory Israel informed... 

Worldwide condemnation has been flooding in since Monday when Israeli Defense Forces boarded a ship in the Mediterranean, setting off a melee that left nine activist’s dead and dozens wounded.The Pro-Palestinian activists intended on breaking a three year blockade of the Hamas ran Gaza strip. Cynthia Mckinney a former US Presidential candidate says that Pro-Israel lobbying has bought congress... 

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, right, shakes hand with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad during a welcoming ceremony at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Bashar al-Assad is in Venezuela for a two-day official visit. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government on Sunday as he hosted Syrian President Bashar... 

The son of one of the founders of Hamas is turning his back not only on the organization that now controls Gaza, but the religion that so animates the followers of the group his father helped create. Speaking on Wednesday night to the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a pro-Israel organization that focuses on radical Islam in education and media, Mosab Hassan Yousef said, “The god of Islam is... 

Hours after the Israeli government announced that it was intending to issue a new “banned goods” list for the Gaza Strip, focused on placating international demands to allow more food and humanitarian goods into the tiny enclave, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a pledge that the move would actually “tighten” the blockade. “Our friends around the world are getting behind our... 

Holger Apfel, leader of the National Democratic Party (NPD) in the state of Saxony, Germany The leader of the National Democratic Party (NPD) of Germany in Saxony has urged the termination of all ties with Israel and the imposition of economic sanctions on the regime. “Stop cooperation with the… Jewish scoundrels, don’t give in to the thriving Holocaust industry,” Holger Apfel said... 

A Palestinian woman and her daughter arrive at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip hoping to cross into Egypt on June 1, 2010. More than 5,000 Palestinians have crossed the border between Gaza and Egypt since the Egyptian president ordered it opened eight days ago, border security sources said on Tuesday. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak opened the crossing in the border town of Rafah... 

Turkish security sources quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as preparing to go beyond abusive rhetoric against Israel and considering using his navy to break Israel’s siege of Gaza or even sailing aboard the next flotilla to break the blockade in person on the assumption that Israel would not dare stop him, Debka reported. The Obama administration is in contact with the Turkish PM and...