Officially, the Palestinians on Wednesday became a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . However, suing Israel won't be an easy issue and the road to the ICC won't be planted with roses, according to political analysts.
Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner said Tuesday that he was "shocked" and "baffled" to learn of Israel's act of spying on the nuclear talks with Iran and sharing the information with some American lawmakers with a view to undermining the diplomacy.
It's no secret the U.S.-Israel relations have soured over the past several years. Much of it has to do with personal animosity between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an Israeli news website Monday that if he is elected in Tuesday's national elections, "there will be no Palestinian state."
If Israel's sitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can get himself reelected for the third consecutive time in the upcoming elections, he would break a record set by legendary leader David Ben Gurion.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not say that his 2009 speech, in which he supported a two-state solution to end Israel's conflict with the Palestinians, is no longer relevant, a source in the prime minister's office told Xinhua on Monday.
The United States and Israel disagree on how to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but their alliance is "stronger than ever," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said here Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Sunday morning for Washington D.C. to speak in front of U.S. Congress on Iran's nuclear program.
Israel's opposition leader promised on Tuesday to revive peace talks with the Palestinians and curtail Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, should he win the upcoming March 17 elections.
As Israeli products are available at a local mini-market in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the owner told Xinhua he is ready to cooperate with a boycott and remove these products off the shelves.
The Islamic republic dismissed report on receiving a message from Israel saying it does not want an escalation of tensions with Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah group, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday.
Israeli officials late Wednesday discussed courses of action following an attack earlier in the day against an Israeli military vehicle, which killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seven.
The United States on Wednesday called for calm after an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel along Lebanese border left two Israeli soldiers and a UN peacekeeper dead.
Israel stepped up security precautions along its northern borders for possible retaliation by Hezbollah over a Sunday airstrike that killed a number of its fighters, local media reported.
Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Lebanese Shiite militant, Mustafa Dirani, "has no right" to sue Israel for alleged tortures and rape charges during his captivity in Israel.
Israeli leaders and multitude of mourners gathered Tuesday with the families of four Jewish victims of last week's terror attack on a Paris kosher supermarket for a solemn funeral ceremony at a Jerusalem cemetery.
Israeli security services on Monday shut down offices of three Islamic organizations in northern Israel over unrest at the holy site of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement.
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