Biden’s spokesman says that contrary to the reports, the senator had not told the Israeli officials that they should learn to live with nuclear Iran.

The move is largely symbolic as the sponsorship fee runs about $10,000, but it shows how weak are the sanctions.

back into Egypt which promised to deal with the criminals properly. This policy is new and promising.

The tiny area will be technically released to UNIFIL, but to all practical purposes - to Hezbollah. Shebaa Farms is a patch of land of some strategic importance on Israel-Syria-Lebanon border; Israel captured it from Lebanon but held as a bargaining chip for Syria. Syria refuses the farms, and Hezbollah legitimizes its struggle against Israel by the Shebaa occupation.
Though the government imagines that Hezbollah would lose any pretext for fighting Israel after receiving the farms, that is not so as top Hezbollah clerics have recently called for liberation of the former Shiite villages in Galilee. Returning the Shebaa Farms to Hezbollah would greatly boost its reputation in the Islamic world.

Police arrived in Osphia village to confiscate several $200,000 cars which the Druzes mortgaged with Israel bank. A crowd gathered in the village, threatened to kill the policemen and burn local police office. The policemen were then ordered to withdraw. Israeli police normally don’t enter Arab villages lest they riot.

Shahar Botabisky and his three comrade arrested a Palestinian youngster in Hebron, beat him and threw out of car, which led him to die afterwards. There is hardly any other way to deal with young Palestinian terrorists.