(Bloomberg) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s planning to fire Ronen Bar, the head of the domestic security service Shin Bet, with whom he’s quarreled over responsibility for the Oct. 7 attack, hostage negotiations and a probe into links to Qatar. A statement from his office issued Sunday evening said he would instruct…
It all started at the annual Munich Security Conference, which is usually a quiet affair and dominated by defence ministers, diplomats, security analysts and policy wonks as they engage in dialogue to peacefully resolve conflicts around the world. It’s been like this for 60 years, restricted initially to members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday (February 16, 2025) fully endorsed Israel’s war aims in the Gaza Strip, saying Hamas “must be eradicated” and throwing the future of the shaky ceasefire into further doubt. Mr. Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem at the start of a regional tour, where…
The second-best is not Donald Trump’s original idea. Such a plan was mooted around the time Israel was formed in 1948, and later by Jewish nationalists. It was never a popular idea. Long before Trump pitched it as an American real-estate redevelopment plan, it was disliked by those who represented the Palestinian people, those who…
Even by his own standards, US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Gaza this week was a head-spinner. America, he said, would take over that war-ravaged strip of land, move its 2-million-odd people out, secure it with US troops if necessary, and then build a grand “Riviera of the Middle East” by the Mediterranean Sea where…
For Afghan women, who feel deserted by the international community as their lives have been crushed under the brutal rule of the Taliban, there may finally be a potential avenue for justice. We should welcome International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan’s decision to apply for arrest warrants for the Taliban’s Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to leave Israel on Sunday (February 1, 2025) for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, looking to strengthen ties with Washington after tensions with the previous White House administration over the war in Gaza. Netanyahu suggests Israel might…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed a security cabinet meeting to vote on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that should take effect ton January 19, in Jerusalem on January 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday (January 18, 2025) that Israel reserves the right to resume fighting in Gaza…
Demonstrators take part in a rally in support of the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that is set to take effect on Sunday, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, on January 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is expected to begin as originally scheduled on Sunday…
Israel delayed a Cabinet vote on Thursday (January 16, 2025) on the long-awaited ceasefire deal that would pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages. Israeli airstrikes, meanwhile, killed at least 72 people in the war-ravaged territory. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed a last-minute dispute with Hamas for holding up the…
