by Selim SAHEB ETTABA JERUSALEM, June 05, 2013 (AFP) Palestinian officials marked 46 years since the start of the 1967 war with Israel on Wednesday by insisting any peace talks must be based on the lines that existed before the Jewish state's occupation. Chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erakat visited three villages in the West Bank whose populations fled the Israeli invasion during the Six-Day War a ...

Moscow, May 28, 2013 Russia will go ahead with plans to deliver S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria despite Western opposition and Israel saying it would “know how to act” if Syrians receive the advanced weapons system. Moscow said that by sending in the anti-aircraft system, it would deter “hotheads” intent on intervention in the two-year-old conflict, the deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, accordi ...

BEIRUT, May 6, 2013 (AFP) Israeli air raids on three military sites near Damascus killed at least 42 soldiers at the weekend, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an updated toll on Monday. "At least 42 soldiers were killed in the strikes, and another 100 who would usually be at the targeted sites remain unaccounted for," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. The Britain-based monitori ...

JERUSALEM, April 21, 2013 (AFP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed Israel would "exact a price" from the Gaza militants who recently fired missiles from Sinai at the southern resort city of Eilat. "Last week missiles were fired from Sinai at Eilat," Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting shortly before the arrival of US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel for a three-day ...

Occupied JERUSALEM, February 08, 2013 A suspected arson attack damaged the main club house of Israeli Premier League side Beitar Jerusalem on Friday, a day after four fans were charged in court in connection with racist incitement against the team’s recruitment of Muslim players, police said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the fire, which caused no injuries, caused “extensive damage” to the premises ...

CAIRO, Feb 6, 2013 (AFP) The Iranian people are ready to march on Israel to "wipe it out" if the Jewish state attacks the Islamic republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in statements published Wednesday by Egypt's state news agency. "The people of Iran are ready to march on Israel to wipe it out if it launches into an adventure against Tehran" and attacks the country, the Iranian president told Egypti ...

BERLIN, Jan 30, 2013 (AFP) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi insisted here Wednesday he had nothing against Judaism and that comments on Israel attributed to him before he was elected had been "taken out of context". Speaking through an interpreter at a joint press conference after talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said, as a Muslim, his faith compelled him to respect religions. "The q ...

CAIRO, Jan 21, 2013 (AFP) The Arab League urged  Arab Israelis to stage a massive turnout in the Jewish state's legislative elections on Tuesday, in a statement published in Cairo. "The League calls on Arab citizens of Israel to turn out in droves for the elections so they are represented (in parliament) and can oppose racist laws" that could be voted on in the Knesset, it said. The Cairo-based pan-Arab bod ...

CAIRO, Jan 16, 2013 (AFP) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said on Wednesday that comments on Israel attributed to him before he was elected, slammed as deeply offensive by the United States, were taken out of context. "The president stressed they were taken from comments on the Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and stressed the need to put the remarks in the right context," said a ...

CAIRO, Jan 4, 2013 (AFP) Egyptian security forces have seized U.S.-made anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles destined for Gaza, where militants have said they would acquire more weapons to use against Israel, security officials said on Friday. The officials said six missiles were found hidden in the Sinai, which borders both the Gaza Strip and Israel, after security forces were tipped off to the hiding pla ...

Jan 2, 2013 In a perceived attempt to temper controversial remarks made earlier in the week, a senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Mursi said on Tuesday that Israel will cease to exist within a decade. During an interview with private Egyptian television channel ONTV, Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, attempted to explain a previous st ...

BERLIN, Dec 06, 2012 (AFP) Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany and Israel were in disagreement over Israel's settlements building policy, as she hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks. "On the question of settlements, we are agreed that we are not agreed," Merkel told a joint press conference with Netanyahu in Berlin. Netanyahu's visit came amid mounting international calls fo ...