Ex-IDF Intelligence chief says a diplomatic solution could be better than military action; notes Syria's weakened state due to crisis benefits Israel's strategic standing; adds Israel, US should cooperate on Palestinian issue.
During the confirmation hearing of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel in the Senate on Thursday, a Republican senator a Defense played tapes showing the former Nebraska Senator interviewed by Al Jazeera television in which he didn’t challenge a caller who accused Israel of war crimes.
The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations, the central coordinating body representing 50 US Jewish organizations, will start its annual Leadership Mission to Israel with a trip to France.
Traveling from Vancouver, Washington the JBN group of Jewish businessmen, arrived especially to voluntarily assist in the diagnosis and dental treatment of the needy children of the Children’s home and Orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to form “the widest possible national unity government” and to stop Iran from building nuclear arms after being chosen by President Shimon Peres to form the next government.
Israel on Sunday implicitly confirmed it staged an air strike on Syria last week as President Bashar al-Assad accused the Jewish state of trying to destabilise his wartorn country.
-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to form “the widest possible national unity government” and to stop Iran from building nuclear arms after being chosen by President Shimon Peres to form the next government.
The prime minister did not manufacture an emergency in the north for political purposes, but the very real Syrian crisis should make it a bit easier for him to form a government.
US Defence Secretary hopeful Chuck Hagel will be hoping his Senate nomination proves as much of a formality as that of incoming Secretary of State John Kerry.
