Asia & Americas

The Council of Rabbis in Israel has written to US President Barak Obama calling on him to "terminate" the Palestinian state, just as America "terminated" Osama bin Laden. Reports...

Twenty-nine senators from President Obama's Democrat Party have called on his Administration to cut off financial aid given to the Palestinian Authority in response to the signing of the...

A speech by an extreme right-wing American broadcaster has sought to reinforce Israel's occupation of Jerusalem. Glenn Beck's polemic was part of a programme which included musical performances in...

A number of Republican members of the US Congress have submitted a bill saying that Israel should annex the occupied West Bank if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas carries...

Reports in the Israeli media claim that around 100,000 American Jews have signed a petition to be presented to President Barak Obama, asking him to use the US veto...

Israeli media outlets have reported that a US Democratic Party senator is working toward proposing a bill to suspend US aid to elite Israeli Defence Forces units on the...

The US embassy in Tel Aviv has released a YouTube video targeted at young Israelis attempting to immigrate and work illegally in the United States, warning them that they...

A US delegation of members of both Houses of Congress has been touring the Middle East, beginning with Cairo to identify new aspects of Egypt's foreign policy. The delegation...

Reports from Israel claim that the US government has allocated tens of millions of dollars from the 2012 budget to help the Israelis to develop the "Iron Dome" anti-rocket...

An official at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has warned that the Arab Spring revolutions might lead to the emergence of "regimes that are hostile towards the...

Israeli officials assume that the US is behind the malware cyber-attack known as Flame, which attacked computers in Israel and across the Middle East recently. This is proof, they...

One of the largest lawyers' representative bodies in America has written an open letter to the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, urging her to apply pressure on her...

Reports in the Israeli media claim that the US Congress has agreed to allocate an extra $1 billion for the development of Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defence system. Hebrew...

Veteran Palestinian politician and negotiator Dr. Hanan Ashrawi has said that there is no new vision for the future of Palestine among American officials in Washington. The senior member...

A poll conducted in the United States has revealed that only 25 per cent of the American people back US military support for Israel if the latter declares a...

The veteran American journalist Helen Thomas has questioned why Israelis cannot accept that the people of Palestine elected Hamas in a democratic poll. She made her statement in an...

Israel's Foreign Ministry has announced that two Israeli soldiers are missing in Bolivia. According to the Israeli Embassy in the Bolivian capital La Paz, the two were on a...

The Canadian government headed by Stephen Harper has said that it will reconsider its relations with and financial support for UNESCO following the election of Palestine as a full...

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her visit to Israel on Tuesday having delivered a reassuring message to the Israeli leadership from the new Egyptian president. Clinton told...

A diplomatic source in the US embassy in Cairo has said that US State Secretary Hillary Clinton will visit Egypt in the next few days. According to the source,...

Occupied Jerusalem/Sama Former US president, Jimmy Carter, has said that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has reached a crisis point and that Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, does not seek...

In an interview with the CBS "60 Minutes" programme, US President Barack Obama has described Israeli pressure over Iran as "noise" that he tries to block out. Nevertheless, Obama...

After getting the go-ahead by a federal court last week, a controversial pro-Israel advert has been posted in ten subway stations in Brooklyn, New York City. The advert reads:...

Egypt's Prime Minister has claimed that protesters arrested outside the US Embassy in Cairo have admitted that they were paid to attack the building. Hisham Qandil said that his...

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth claims that the US has sent a secret message to Iran stating that America will not support Israel in a military strike against Iranian targets...

The Obama administration is discussing several ways to confront Iran's nuclear ambitions in the hope that Washington can forestall a unilateral Israeli attack, the New York Times said on...

The Pentagon has decided to reduce the number of US troops taking part in a joint military exercise with Israel planned for this month, Time magazine reported on Friday....

A former US ambassador to the United Nations has said that Israel must make its own decision regarding an attack against Iran. John Bolton noted that it still has...

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday that a military Israeli attack against Iran will not destroy its nuclear facilities, but...

The White House has called on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to clarify his controversial remarks about Jerusalem which have outraged Palestinians. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that...

The Israeli Consul and Zionist Federation in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, along with the Jewish Congress in Latin America, are continuing to put pressure on...

During a telephone call on Sunday, US president Barack Obama told Mahmoud Abbas not to apply for non-member status for Palestine at the UN. Palestinian President Abbas's spokesman, Nabeel...