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Former Bush official: Syria chemical weapons could be ‘Israeli false flag operation’
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell under President George W. Bush, on Thursday warned that the chemical weapons that were reportedly used in Syria could be a “Israeli false flag operation” because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was running an “inept regime.” During…
Israelis vote in election seen producing swing to right
Israelis voted Tuesday in an election likely to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as head of a rightwing coalition that will face the challenges of peacemaking with the Palestinians and Iran’s nuclear programme. After a slow start, the pace of voting picked up, with long queues forming outside some polling…
Avigdor Lieberman: ‘Dobermann’ of the Israeli right
Israel’s outspoken former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, who resigned last month after being charged with corruption offences, is a firebrand hardliner with a burning ambition to lead the right. Known for his anti-Arab stance, he has been dogged by corruption allegations for years but denies the charges against him, saying…
Israel and Palestinians in face off over protest camp
More than 200 Palestinian activists were refusing on Saturday evening to obey orders to leave a protest camp they set up in a part of the occupied West Bank where Israel wants to build new settler homes. “Members of the Israeli Civil (military) Administration told us this morning that we…
Right-wing challenger ‘Jewish Home’ gains over Likud party before Israel vote
Israel’s nationalist religious Jewish Home party is continuing to win support away from the rightwing Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of January 22 elections, according to a poll published Tuesday. The party led by Naftali Bennett is now projected to win 13 seats in next month’s elections,…
Tel Aviv bus blast ‘injures 10′
Seventeen people were injured in an explosion on a bus near the defence ministry in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Israel’s emergency services said, in what an official said was a “terrorist attack.” The blast took place as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Israel for talks with Prime…
Middle East oil companies targeted in cyber war
Middle Eastern oil and gas companies have been targeted in massive attacks on their computer networks in an increasingly open cyber war where a new virus was discovered just this past week. The United States and Israel, believed to behind the first cyber sabotage campaign that targeted Iran’s nuclear programme,…
Israel facing ‘increasing number of cyber attacks’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel was facing an increasing number of cyberattacks, just days after Washington issued a veiled warning to Iran over digital attacks on its interests. “There have been increasing efforts to carry out cyberattacks on Israel’s computer infrastructure,” Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet…
Netanyahu’s simple bomb graphic confuses the nuclear experts
Netanyahu's simple bomb graphic confuses the nuclear experts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stole the spotlight at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday when he pulled out a comic book-like diagram of a bomb midway through his podium address, figuratively drawing the red line on the Iranian nuclear program that he…
Israel sends top officials to the White House
Israel is trying to thaw the frosty relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House, and set up a meeting with President Barack Obama, an Israeli newspaper said on Friday. A report in the Maariv daily said National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror was in Washington and had been…
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