Just hours after setting plans in motion to move the next Israeli national elections up to September 4, the two largest politcal parties instead teamed up in massive unity government that keeps elections set for 2013. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported…
The Israeli national elections are expected to be a year early after the Israeli Cabinet on Monday gave the go-ahead to begin the process of moving the vote up to September 4 of this year. The Israeli vote is now…
The deployment of advanced American fighterjets to the Middle East certainly caught Iran’s attention. But the location of the F-22s, in the United Arab Emirates, raises questions as to why the US sent them. And was it a message being…
With Israel-Palestinian peace talks still in limbo, representatives of the Palestinian Hamas and Fatah political factions met yet again in Egypt on Wednesday as part of an effort to end the almost five year split in the Palestinian government. The…
Iranian officials have expressed concern about reports the United States is deploying advanced fighter jets in the region, although the Israelis hinted a different reaction. President Shimon Peres gave US President Barack Obama a boost of support on Tuesday regarding…
Israel added another twist to the political transition in the Middle East on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the prospect of moving elections forward. Ynet reported that national parliamentary elections, currently scheduled for 2013, could be moved…