Palestinian groups said the images showed the Israeli occupation was "corrupting" A former Israeli soldier has been sharply criticised for posting images of herself on Facebook posing next to Palestinian prisoners. Eden Aberjil had put the images in an album on the site entitled “The army: the best days of my life”. Army officials have condemned her behaviour as “shameful”... 

Romanian gendarmes guard a path leading to the crash site. An open source intelligence report says the Israeli military helicopter that crashed in Romania last week was simulating a military attack on Iran. On Monday, six Israeli soldiers and a Romanian flight captain aboard a CH-53 transport helicopter were killed when the chopper crashed in a mountainous region of central Romania. The Jerusalem-based... 

On August 2nd while addressing a group of Iranians living abroad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that “Israel has hired people to assassinate him.” In the speech Ahmadinejad stated, “The Zionists have sent people to assassinate me. Look how hopeless they are. They have assassinated so many Iranians.” The statement was given during the same speech in which... 

Israel's President Shimon Peres said that England's attitude towards Jews was Israel's "next big problem". Israel’s president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters. Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against us.” He added: “There... 

CH-53 helicopter The IAF has begun to understand it must pay a certain price for two very important dividends: experience in challenging situations and building possible future alliances. The veteran NCO at Tel Nof air base in Israel displays parentlike pride when showing off the Israel Air Force’s Yasur helicopters with their upgraded capabilities, and sometimes even slips in a sly hint or two... 

The UN says at least 198 Palestinian structures in the West Bank have been demolished this year Amnesty International has today called on the Israeli authorities to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and other buildings in the West Bank, after a further 74 were destroyed in the Jordan Valley earlier this week. The demolitions were carried out by the Israeli military in the villages of Hmayyir... 

The United States plans to provide Israel with its most extensive military aid package in history. The US Assistant Secretary of State, Andrew J. Shapiro claims that the increased US military assistance should help Tel Aviv reach tough decisions in peace talks with the Palestinians. He said that there is “hope that the administration’s expanded commitment to Israel’s security... 

Israel’s immigration policies – which are the most racist in the world as they restrict settlement in Israel to those of racially Jewish descent only – are being tested to the core in the resort city of Eilat. Reports from Israel have revealed that illegal sub-Saharan African immigrants now make up 10 percent of the town’s population, numbering 5,000 out of the 55,000 strong population. Thousands... 

Pro-Palestinian activists are launching a new round of anti-Israel lawsuits in European courts. The lawsuits, which exploit the legal principle of universal jurisdiction, are being used to harass current and former Israeli political and military leaders, with the twin aims of tying Israel’s hands against Palestinian terror and delegitimizing the Jewish state. On June 23, two Belgian lawyers... 

A statement released yesterday by the Obama Administration has made public America’s long-standing support for the Israeli government’s large, undeclared nuclear arsenal, and insists that Israel has an inherent “right” to possess such an arsenal for “deterrence purposes.” Officials have also reportedly acknowledged that the Obama Administration has labeled its previous support for... 

European "ally" won't reduce its trade with Iran. Where do boundless enthusiasm for soccer and and turning Israel into a diplomatic punching bag cross paths? In Germany, where preoccupation with its team’s chance to win the World Cup in South Africa is coupled with last week’s precedent-setting parliamentary resolution condemning Israel. The conventional wisdom among Israeli diplomats,... 

In the United States, questioning Israel is rarely a wise political move, and even suggesting an alternative to the policy of choice for whatever government is in power there at any given time is often enough to provoke angry responses from much of the US Congress, not to mention protests in Israel. But increasingly officials are admitting, if not altogether publicly, that Israel’s current right-far-right... 

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... 

World leaders “believe absolutely” that Israel may decide to take military action against Iran to prevent the latter from acquiring nuclear weapons, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday. “Iran is not guaranteeing a peaceful production of nuclear power [so] the members of the G-8 are worried and believe absolutely that Israel will probably react preemptively,”... 

One of the ships impounded by Israel when it raided the flotilla of aid vessels off Gaza. Boarding party troops in deadly flotilla raid confiscated cards and spent on them, claim campaigners who were on board. Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used. In their...