Hundreds of people in the impoverished and Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip have staged a demonstration against the Israeli regime and to protest the participation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres. The protesters in Gaza City burnt pictures of US President Barack Obama,Israeli Prime ...

When the world heard that Shimon Peres had died, it shouted Peacemaker! But when I heard that Peres was dead, I thought of blood and fire and slaughter. I saw the results: babies torn apart, shrieking refugees, smouldering bodies. It was a place called Qana and most of the 106 bodies half of them children now lie beneath the UN camp where they were ...

JERUSALEM // Former Israeli president Shimon Peres a deeply controversial figure in the Arab world was laid to rest on Friday in a ceremony attended by thousands, including dozens of western politicians. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was among the mourners at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem and was seated in the front row reportedly ...

President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas reportedly plans to attend the funeral of former Israeli leader Shimon Peres, who is remembered as a war criminal amongPalestinian people. Several sources in the PA confirmed on Thursday that Abbas was set toparticipate in the funeral, which will be held in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds ...

"De mortuis nil nisi bene" is commonly translated in English with "Speak no ill of the dead". The headlines of German obituaries on Shimon Peres outbid themselves in adulation. President Obama, however, outbid even the Germans. He praised Peres without irony as "a champion of peace. [...] As Americans, we are indebted to him, he said. He even got ...

Hamas has called on Palestinians to hold a Day of Rage on Friday which willcoincidewith the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres. The call is meant to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of what is described as the third Intifadathroughout the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds. The uprising began in October 2015 after ...

The former Israeli PM and president, Shimon Peres, has died aged 93. He suffered a stroke two weeks ago and his condition improved before a sudden deterioration on Tuesday. Mr Peres, who was one of the last of a generation of Israeli politicians present at the new nation's birth in 1948, served twice as the country's prime minister and once as ...

Relations between Turkey and Israel have continued with many ups and downs since 1950. At the beginning of the 1990s, a golden period of stability started in relations between the two sides, which continued until 2009 and 2010. During those two years, first a verbal brawl between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and then Israeli President, Shimon ...

By AFP JERUSALEM US military chief Martin Dempsey and Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday discussed "the Iranian nuclear threat, the strengthening of strategic relations between the two countries and developments in the region," a statement from Peres's office said. It quoted Peres as saying that economic sanctions aimed at forcing Iran ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's president praised President Barack Obama's approach to countering Iran's suspect nuclear program on Tuesday, while sending a veiled message to Israel's incoming government not to act alone to stop it. President Shimon Peres spoke at the opening session of Israel's newly elected parliament. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

[caption id="attachment_103454" align="alignright" width="241"] President Shimon Peres meets with US President Barack Obama at the White House on June 25, 2014. (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)[/caption] Outgoing Israeli president says current administration has gone out of its way to protect Israels security interests US President Barack Obama ...

JERUSALEM: Describing Iran as a "danger" to world peace, Israeli PresidentShimon Pereshas asked India not to remain "neutral" to Iran's "aggressive attempt" to become a forceful hegemon in the region. "Iran is a great danger....They have emerged as a danger to the rest of the world and they have mobilised the world against them, not just us," Peres ...

Israel and Iran could sit down and talk to each other despite the bitter enmity that has pushed thetwo nations to the brink of war, Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, has said. Speaking exclusively to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Peres saidIsraelhas no natural antipathy towardsIranand even praised Cyrus the Great, an ancient Persian monarch, for ...

Guido Westerwelle meets PresidentPeres in Jerusalem, voices support for Secretary of State Kerry's effort to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday, and said thatIranian nuclear weapons "are not an option for Germany." Westerwelle also voiced ...

The story ofStephen Hawkings decisionto pull out of the Israeli Presidents Conference just got more interesting. A major United States newspaper, the Boston Globe,published an editorialoffering strong support for Hawking, and, while not supporting or opposing boycotting Israel as a tactic, took a firm stance in saying that the boycott tool is a legitimate,...

STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- The Israeli president has called the present Iranian regime "the greatest danger to peace in the world." In a speech Tuesday to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Shimon Peres also called the Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization. But his most scathing criticism was reserved for Iran. "Nobody threatens ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's president has praised Azerbaijan for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East. Shimon Peres says Azerbaijian, which shares a border with Iran, has taken a "clear stand" against war and terrorism. Peres says Azerbaijan's "unique geographic location" makes it a "key country" in the region. Peres ...

Hawking should be commendedfor pulling out of an Israeli conference as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians. As announced by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and subsequently covered byThe Guardian,Reutersand others, world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has decided ...

British theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawkins has joined an academic embargo on the Israeli regime by refusing to attend a conference hosted by the regimes president Shimon Perez. The prominent Cambridge professor was to take part in the Facing Tomorrow annual conference planned to be held in June but pulled out in protest at Tel Avivs treatment ...

U.S. Defense Secretary to meet with President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, and discuss anticipated sale to Israel of advanced military equipment. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is due to arrive in Israel on Sunday for a Middle East trip to discuss Iran, the Syrian civil war and weapons sales ...