Tag: Israel
Israel closes access ramp to Al-Aqsa compound
Israel has closed a controversial wooden access ramp to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound over public safety concerns, police said on Monday, in a move...
Drones and dystopia
Unmanned predators are the future of military technology
During the last few weeks, Pakistan’s media has been focused on the events related to Memogate, the...
Obama battles charges he’s not Israel’s friend
US President Barack Obama this week stepped up a counterattack against Republican opponents levelling angry, politically fraught charges that he has shortchanged staunch US...
Israel must ‘mend fences’ to end isolation, says US
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday urged Israel to try and end its increasing regional “isolation” by repairing diplomatic ties with Egypt and...
Pakistan asks Israel to stop settlement
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, while speaking in the General Assembly, said that Israeli defiance of international community...
Israeli warplanes launch strikes on Gaza Strip
Israeli warplanes watched two strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory, an army spokesman said...
World must halt Iran nuclear drive: Israel PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on world governments to waste no time in stopping “Iran’s race to arm itself with a...
United States aims to allay Israel after G20 open mic...
The White House tried to downplay any diplomatic fallout from an open microphone incident in which President Barack Obama appeared to show frustration with...
Blasts hit gas pipeline between Egypt, Jordan, Israel
Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut...
Blasts hit gas pipeline between Egypt, Jordan, Israel
Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut...
Pakistan asks Israel to stop settlements on occupied lands
Reiterating its support to the right to self-determination for Palestinians, Pakistan called on Israel to cease all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian territories to...
Iran attack “more and more likely”: Israel’s president
Israeli President Shimon Peres warned late Saturday an attack on Iran was "more and more likely," days before a report by the UN nuclear...
Israel frees six of 27 detained on flotilla
Israel has freed six of 27 passengers and crew who were aboard two ships intercepted by its navy while trying to run the Jewish...
Israel test-fires missile amid Iran debate
Israel test-fired a missile on Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the “direct and heavy threat” posed to the Jewish...
Palestinians out
It seems mazel tovs are in order for the US. They have secured the good will of the country they often seek the most:...
Egypt brokers peace after Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed
Egypt helped broker a fresh ceasefire by militants in Gaza Sunday, after violence left nine Palestinians and one Israeli dead, sources close to the...
Egypt brokers ceasefire after Israel-Palestinian bloodshed
Sources close to Gaza militant groups said early Sunday that they were trying to call a halt to rocket fire that brought deadly retaliatory...