Semaine 24 / 2012

        Chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat will travel to Washington for a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week, in an effort to revive the peace process, the State Department said on Friday. The meeting aims to encourage Israel and the Palestinians “to build on the exchange of letters and continue to take the next step toward the table,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, according to AFP. In April and May, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and... [Lire la suite]

Evidence that Iran was involved in bomb plots against Israeli envoys earlier in the year has emerged from a multinational probe, British newspaper The Guardian reported Monday. In February, Israel ambassadors were the targets of planned terror attacks in India, Thailand and Georgia. According to the report, local Indian agencies informed ministers that a bomb attack in New Dehli, which injured the wife of the Israeli embassy's chief security officer, was orchestrated by a an Iranian "security entity." The Guardian stated that European... [Lire la suite]

            Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh has warned that Bashar Assad's chemical weapon stockpile could fall into the hands of Syrian rebels, which would threaten Israeli national security. "Syria's chemical arsenal is the world's largest, and it possesses missiles that can target the entirety of Israel's territory," Naveh said at a memorial event in Jerusalem honoring soldiers who fell in the Lebanon War. The IDF "must not lose vigilance," he said, lest such weapons... [Lire la suite]

‏         The Knesset plenum is sheduled to discuss this week the Turkish genocide of a million and a half Armenians nearly 100 years ago this week.This, despite Wednesday's planned release of a report by State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss on Israel's interception of Turkish ships bound for the Gaza Strip. Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On asked for the issue to be discussed in the plenum last week but it was delayed due to deliberation over the "Outpost Bill." When the Foreign Ministry asked her... [Lire la suite]

             Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu related to developments in Syria at the weekly Cabinet meeting accusing Iran and Hezbollah of complicity in the carnage there. He accused Syria's powerful, anti Israel allies of helping the regime of President Basher Al Assad to brutally suppress the 15 month old rebellion. Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz warned that Iran and Hezbolla could take the conflict beyond Syria's borders. A crime against humanity, genocide in... [Lire la suite]