Aljazeera.com | Abbas urges international pressure for Israel Aljazeera.com Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned the United Nations that US-brokered peace talks offered a "last chance" as he demanded an agreement with Israel that permanently resolves all disputes. Speaking before the UN General Assembly on ... At UN, Palestinian leader Abbas criticizes Israel, but pledges good faith in ... Kerry says Israel, Palestinian talks to intensify with increased US role Abbas: No More Interim Deals With Israel |
New York Times | Rouhani, Blunt and Charming, Pitches a Moderate Iran New York Times UNITED NATIONS — Descending on New York this week in a Shiite cleric's traditional fine wool robes, Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, turned himself into a high-speed salesman offering a flurry of speeches, tweets, televised interviews and carefully ... Israel Urges Continued Pressure on Iran Rouhani calls on Israel to sign Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 'without delay' Iranian leader's smooth diplomacy poses new challenge for Israel |
As the New Iranian Leader Gets a Warm Reception, Israel Calls for Caution New York Times (blog) JERUSALEM — With the United States and other nations extending an increasingly warm welcome to the new president of Iran at the United Nations this week in New York, Israel finds itself in a bind: eager to unmask what it sees as an empty charm ... |
Haaretz | Israel must do more to normalize ties with Turkey, says FM Davutoglu Haaretz At news conference at UNGA, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says 'some progress' has been made but Israel has yet to fulfill all conditions. By The Associated Press | Sep. 26, 2013 | 10:08 AM ... Turkey tells Israel to step up efforts to restore diplomatic ties Turkey says Israel hasn't met all conditions for normalizing ties after 2010 ... Turkish FM: Israel must do more to normalize ties with us |
The Times of Israel | Assad: We could blind Israel in an instant Jerusalem Post According to the report, which was carried by Hezbollah's paper Al-Akhbar, Assad said this was because the situation in Syria “has never been better,” as “we created chemical weapons in the '80s as a deterrent against Israel's nuclear arsenal. Today ... Assad: We have weapons that could blindside Israel Assad threatens to 'blind' Israel, claims Syria Assad warns has more advanced arms to deter Israel: report |
Raw Story | Human Rights Watch urges Israel to stop displacing Bedouins Raw Story Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Israel to stop trying to displace Bedouin families in the West Bank, where the army last week manhandled European diplomats on an aid mission. “The Israeli military should end its unjustified attempts to forcibly ... Israel: New Unlawful West Bank Demolitions HRW condemns Israel's forced transfer of Bedouins |
Haaretz | Analysis || In this UN act, Iran is the star and Israel is the grump observing ... Haaretz 'We are the kid who shouts that the emperor has no clothes,' Strategic and Intelligence Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, Netanyahu's close ally, said this week. But the shouting is being ignored. By Amos Harel | Sep. 26, 2013 | 4:42 AM | 7 ... |
The Guardian | Israeli boycott of Rouhani UN speech 'a mistake', says finance minister The Guardian A senior Israeli minister has criticised Binyamin Netanyahu's instruction to Israel's UN delegation to boycott the Iranian president's speech at the general assembly, saying it created the impression that Israel was not interested in encouraging a ... |
NBCNews.com (blog) | Israel eyes Syria warily from border buffer zone in Golan Heights NBCNews.com (blog) By Geraint Vincent, Correspondent, NBC News. GOLAN HEIGHTS, Israel – From a closed military zone a few yards inside Israel's border with Syria, the sound of shelling and plumes of smoke are clear -- evidence of the nearby civil war. Soldiers from a ... |
Iranian press lauds Obama's UNGA speech, dismisses Israel as 'isolated ... Jerusalem Post Israel, widely assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, demands a total rollback of Iran's nuclear projects, including uranium enrichment and plutonium production that could arm a bomb. At White House talks with President Barack Obama on ... |