John McCain speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol on February 5, 2015. Republican Senator John McCain has censured US President Barack Obama for his response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive victory in Tuesday’s elections. On Thursday, Obama told Netanyahu on phone that Washington will “reassess” its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli premier rejected... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech to his supporters during an election campaign meeting in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya on March 11, 2015. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the West, particularly the Scandinavian governments, of plotting to remove him from power. “Scandinavian governments have spent millions of dollars on a campaign... 

US President Barack Obama threatened to take military action against Israel not to let Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strike Iran. Netanyahu was planning airstrikes at an emergency meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Benny Gantz, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarîda said. The meeting was held after... 

US Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence US Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “arrogant” man who does not speak for all Jews. The Jewish lawmaker made the remarks in an interview with CNN on Sunday ahead of Netanyahu’s controversial visit to... 

Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz has announced his resignation after sharply criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his extremist policies. Peretz formally submitted his resignation to Israeli Justice Minister and Hatnuah party leader Tzipi Livnion Sunday. His resignation will go into affect on Tuesday, November 11. The announcement comes shortly after Peretz accused... 

Former US Secretary of State James Baker says he had barred current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the State Department when he was a senior Israeli official. “I barred him from the State Department,” Baker told CNN on Sunday. “That may not be widely known.” Baker explained that he had made the decision after Netanyahu said that “American policy in the Middle East is based... 

US-Israeli relations have sunk to new lows after Obama administration officials were cited calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit” and “coward” engaging in political posturing, instead of efforts at Middle-Eastern de-escalation. The comments were delivered in a conversation with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg on condition of anonymity. To many they symbolize the... 

The Israeli military has confirmed that two Palestinian rockets have struck the city of Dimona where Israel has a nuclear reactor. Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip fired the rockets in retaliation for Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave on Wednesday. Tel Aviv said earlier that more than 70 rockets had been fired into Israel’s illegal settlements since the early hours of... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that the Tel Aviv regime is ready to expand its military operations in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli premier said on Sunday that Tel Aviv was prepared to widen its operations in the besieged enclave. Netanyahu says the almost-nightly strikes on Gaza could be expanded if need be. The remarks come as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called... 

The United States is set to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to save the so-called peace talks between Palestinian Authority (PA) and Tel Aviv, reports in the Israeli news media say. With the talks on the brink of collapse, US officials have offered to release Pollard, 59, as a carrot to Israel to break the deadlock over a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli... 

Retaliatory air strikes carried out by Israel against Syrian army positions killed one person and injured seven, according to Syria’s armed forces said. The strike came just hours after four IDF soldiers were wounded by a bomb attack in the Golan Heights. A Syrian armed forces statement said the strikes targeted three sites near the ruined city of Quneitra in southwestern Syria, including an... 

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for the full reoccupation of the besieged Gaza Strip amid rising tensions in the region. Lieberman made the remarks on Israel’s Channel 2 television following a retaliatory attack by Palestinian resistance movement, Islamic Jihad, against the Israeli regime earlier on Wednesday. “Following an attack like this — a barrage of more than... 

Thousands of African migrants in Israel have staged a demonstration to protest against Tel Aviv’s policies towards refugees. The undocumented African migrants rallied outside Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld put the number of the demonstrators at “more than 10,000.” In an open letter to Israeli... 

The deal with Iran is not a “historic mistake”, as claimed by Benjamin Netanyahu, but brings Iran in from the cold and puts the option of military strikes off the table, Gideon Levy, journalist and columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, told RT. Israel and particularly Netanyahu now stands increasingly isolated, and as the peace talks with the Palestinians go nowhere, it depends on Washington if... 

US Secretary of State Kerry assured Israel will be safer over the next six months due to the agreement reached in Geneva concerning Iran’s nuclear program and uranium enrichment plan. Though “Israel is threatened by what has been going on in Iran”, the deal brokered on Saturday will keep the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program under supervision and control, said John Kerry. “But I believe...