Israel and the Palestinian leadership must step through a ''window of opportunity'' for peace, Israeli President Shipon Shimon Peres said on Sunday in an address to the World Economic Forum on the Jordanian shore of the Dead Sea.
Exiled Syrian chemical weapons scientist tells Al Jazeera the Assad regime used sarin in small quantities to stop rebel advancements, mixes gases to make it harder to detect WMDs use; adds weapons were developed against Israel.
The European Union is poised to blacklist the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, following a formal request from Britain to pursue such a designation.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius, whose country is to take over the EU six-month rotating presidency in July, said this week Israel should take the issue of settlement products labeling seriously.
On the eve of British Foreign Minister William Hague to Israel, an Israeli cabinet minister expressed dismay at the growing antagonism against Israel in the UK, as he attacked attitudes towards his country as “disguised anti-Semitism.’’
In Friends of Syria meeting in Amman, UK's foreign secretary Hague says Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah are ''propping up'' Assad, whose regime is ''increasingly dependent on external support.''
