RAMALLAH — Tawfik Tirawi has a difficult job. From his office in Ramallah, he intends to discover who killed Yasser Arafat.
After revelations broadcast by Al Jazeera in July that Arafat may have been killed by polonium 210 poisoning — indicating a (...)
Jerusalem/Ramallah - The European Union stands ready - if asked - to resume its Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) at the Rafah crossing, or take up other similar new tasks there, according to Christian Berger, EU Representative to the Palestinian (...)
The saga of two Iranian warships aiming to transit the Suez Canal to reach the Mediterranean Sea apparently continues overnight.
International news agency reports quote Egyptian officials in the Suez Canal Authority as saying that the two Iranian (...)
According to Israeli news sources on Sunday, two Iranian warships they have been closely monitoring are now in transit in the Suez Canal, or possibly already through.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly (...)
Israeli media reports on Thursday indicate that Iran has backed down from any confrontation with Israel over the transit of two of its warships through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea.
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stated (...)
The Jerusalem Post's Defense Correspondent Yaakov Katz reported Wednesday night that “Israel has agreed to a second deployment of Egyptian military forces in the Sinai Peninsula to crack down on Bedouin violence and to protect a gas pipeline that (...)
The first formal Israeli reaction to the departure from Cairo and from power of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak came only after the Egyptian Military Supreme Council' reaffirmed, in Communique Number 4, Egypt's continuing adherence to all its (...)
The Israeli government must have breathed a sigh of relief that the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had instructed Egypt's Military Supreme Council to run the country came conveniently just after sundown, the start of the weekly Jewish Shabbat (...)
Are you watching TV? This is how Israelis responded when contacted Friday evening after Omar Suleiman's announcement that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had instructed the High Military Council to run the country. The weekly Shabbat shut-down, (...)
RAMALLAH: Perhaps as many as 1,000 people – and some estimates put the number higher – showed up for Saturday's rally in Ramallah and called to support the freedom and democracy protests in Tunisia, and especially those ongoing in Egypt.
It was a (...)
JERUSALEM: In a move stunning in its timing and significance, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu announced on Friday afternoon – with the Quartet's Tony Blair standing by his side – that he now thinks it's time, finally, to develop (...)
The U.S. has steadily firmed up its position over the past week on the need for a transition in Egypt — which it says should start now. Now, President Obama said on 1 February, after Hosni Mubarak announced he would serve until the next scheduled (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, the only man in the Israeli government authorized (by himself) to speak out about the current dramatic protests in Egypt, appeared to switch his position dramatically today.
His remarks appeared to be (...)
On Friday afternoon, a money changer sat in his office on Salah ad-din Street, the main street of East Jerusalem, watching his computer screen. But it wasn't showing the minute-to-minute changes in the exchange rate, or the price of gold – he was (...)
JERUSALEM: “As far as I know, yesterday and the day before [Friday + Saturday], Israel agreed to authorize the Egyptian military to bring more people into the Sinai,” Israeli Brigadier-General Tzvika Foghel said in an interview on Sunday.
Foghel, (...)
JERUSALEM: There may be momentary relief in Israeli after Egypt's Husni Mubarak swore in his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as Vice President – for the first time in Mubarak's entire term of office.
There were also unconfirmed rumors that (...)
Jerusalem--On Sunday, Qatar-based satellite news channel Al Jazeera published hundreds of confidential documents pertaining to suspended peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Palestinian reactions to the leaks--which (...)
Israel's cat and mouse game of starving Gaza of vital resources continues, despite a brief reprieve on fuel supply levels, writes Marian Houk in Jerusalem
Reports of grave humanitarian consequences following phased cuts in the supply of fuel and (...)
Israeli justice condones collective punishment, reports Marian Houk
Immediately after the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition on 3 January from a group of 10 Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations asking for an injunction (...)
Collective punishment rules the day in Gaza, reports Marian Houk
The Israeli Defence Ministry's programme to punish all Gazans for Qassam missiles fire into Israeli territory is apparently moving into a new phase. A second round of fuel cuts (...)
While illegal according to international law, Israel presses ahead in denying Gaza access to fundamental commodities, writes Marian Houk in Jerusalem
Israel has been reducing fuel supplies to Gaza for some weeks now, though tightened Israeli (...)
One of the UN's own calls for the UN's head to stop playing favourites in Israeli-Palestinian affairs, writes Marian Houk in Jerusalem
The UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian (...)
Iran's declaration that its scientists have successfully enriched uranium took the West by surprise, writes Marian Houk
"I formally declare that Iran has joined the club of nuclear countries. A laboratory-scale nuclear fuel cycle has been completed (...)
The UN Human Rights Commission is to be abolished and the Human Rights Council is to take its place, writes Marian Houk in Geneva
A dramatic decision at the United Nations on how to tackle abuses of human rights was presented as an attempt to begin (...)
A new humanitarian emblem, a "crystal", was officially adopted by the ICRC, reports Marian Houk in Geneva
"The issue is, actually, if they did it with the Palestinians, why are they unable to do it with the Syrians?", asked Syria's ambassador to the (...)