GENEVA—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for what he calls its “obsession with Israel.” In a Monday speech in Geneva before the U.N. intergovernmental body, Kerry said the group’s heavy focus of Israel’s human rights records “risks undermining the credibility of the entire organization.” “We will oppose any […]
Many in Lebanon are outraged and the Lebanese government has initiated an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding an instagram post of Miss Israel, Miss Lebanon, Miss Japan and Miss Slovenia while in south Florida recently. While the photo isn’t one that would normally merit news coverage, because the photo shows Miss Lebanon and Miss […]
JERUSALEM—Tensions were running high at a disputed Jerusalem holy place on Friday as Palestinians gathered for Muslim prayers under tight Israeli security. Nearly 3,000 Israeli police and soldiers deployed in and around Jerusalem’s Old City as Israel reopened the Mosque of Al-Aqsa, the site Jews call the Temple Mount. The ancient compound marks the holiest […]
WASHINGTON – The joint testing of an improved interceptor missile system designed to counter future missile threats went as planned, Defense Department spokesman Army Col. Steven Warren told Pentagon reporters Tuesday. “The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development, and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, conducted an intercept test of […]