Topic: Israel
A pro-Israel conference opening Sunday exposed fears that a row over Jewish settlements had left scars in US-Israeli ties and raised the risk of Israeli strikes against Iran's nuclear program. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- while he visits Washington this week for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) three-day annual policy conference -- is now to meet President ...
US President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet him at the White House, even as the Israeli leader rebuffed a key US demand to halt settlement construction in east Jerusalem. The invitation for the Tuesday meeting to discuss Middle East peace efforts was handed to Netanyahu by Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell at ...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon slammed Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip during a tour of the war-battered coastal territory on Sunday, saying it was causing "unacceptable suffering." The visit came as part of a two-day regional tour aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that last collapsed during Israel's war on the territory's Hamas rulers in December 2008 ...
