Lt. Assaf Ramon, 21, who became an Israeli air-force pilot earlier this year, died when his F-16 fighter jet crashed in the West Bank during a routine training flight. Military officials said the crash occurred in a mountainous area south of the city of Hebron. Israeli TV reported that an unidentified Palestinian saw the plane [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is set to continue building new housing units in the West Bank, in defiance of U.S. demands to temporarily halt construction there. The United States, which has pushed for settlement suspension to revive the stalled Middle East peace process, said it “regretted” reports that Netanyahu planned to approve West [...]
Will George Mitchell, US envoy to the Middle East, succeed where UK Prime Minister George Brown failed? This remains to be seen when Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mitchell in London in an effort by the US to stop further construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank. As the population of Israel increases in the [...]
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