In UN discussion on arms control, Israeli envoy laments international inaction against Iran, Syria

Israel’s Ambassador to the US and the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan participated in a discussion on arms control and international security at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, during which he sharply criticize Syria’s use of weapons of mass destruction and the Iranian regime constantly violating its commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Read more

Iran’s bombs at centre of German Chancellor Merkel’s visit to Jerusalem

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended an Israeli government meeting on Sunday in Jerusalem, held especially for her at the King David Hotel, her seventh visit to the Jewish state as she steps down as chancellor after 16 years. Read more

Iran’s UN rep calls Bennett’s speech ‘full of lies’

Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, assailed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday, saying that the speech he delivered was “full of lies.” Read more

Israel: Iran’s Raisi ‘continues to fool international community’

Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi “continues to fool the international community,” Israel warned, calling on the international community to condemn the Iranian regime following Raisi’s address at the United Nations. Read more

Bennett’s goals, Israel’s goals

Three weeks ago, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defence Minister Benny Gantz convened the ambassadors from all the U.N. Security Council member nations in Jerusalem. Read more

P.A. issues included in the Bennett-Biden meeting

The Palestinian issue was discussed during the Israeli Prime Minister’s meeting with the President of the United States in Washington last Friday. Read more

Appeasement

I was brought up to despise the word appeasement. It was the ideology favoured by much of the British aristocracy and political leaders before the Second World War. Read more

Israel’s Defence Minister to Ambassadors: Iran very close to bomb, take action

Defence Minister Benny Gantz held on Wednesday a briefing for more than 60 foreign ambassadors on the security situation under the title “Challenges and opportunities for Israel and its allies,” during which he underscored Iran’s threat to global peace. Read more

Iranian ayatollah: ‘Jews are the greatest problem of Islam and humanity’

 

According to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative in Iran’s Southern Khorasan Province, the Jews are humanity’s greatest problem. Read more

Palestinian consulate pressure, differences on Iran loom over Bennett-Biden meeting

On Aug. 26, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will walk the red carpet into the White House, where he will meet U.S. President Joe Biden. The two will exchange pleasantries and then they will get right down to business. One major issue the two leaders will discuss is, not surprisingly, Iran. Another major issue is the establishment of a Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem. And therein lies the problem. Read more

New report exposes ‘land of tunnels’ in Lebanon, pioneered by Hezbollah

A new report released on Thursday by the Alma Centre, which researches security challenges to Israel from Lebanon and Syria, exposed what it described as a large-scale inter-regional Hezbollah tunnel system in different parts of Lebanon. Read more

Whistling in the wind

Trying unsuccessfully to change something which cannot be changed is the simple meaning of “whistling in the wind.” Read more

Marise Payne condemns Iran and Hezbollah

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council has welcomed comments made in Parliament on August 10 by Foreign Minister Senator Marise Payne condemning Iran and Hezbollah. Read more

Iranian protests spread again, but so far, the regime has them under control

Demonstrations in Iran’s Khuzestan province—as a result of an ongoing drought and corruption with the government—and elsewhere have grown, though experts tell JNS that they are smaller than in 2019 so far and the regime will use its full force to stamp them out. Read more

Defence Minister: Iran 10 weeks away from weapons-grade materials needed for nuclear bomb

Israel’s Minister of Defence Benny Gantz and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yair Lapid briefed on Wednesday ambassadors whose countries are members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and revealed that Saeed Ara Jani, the head of the Iranian UAV command, is personally responsible for the terror attacks in the Gulf of Oman, including the one last week that killed a British and Romanian national. Read more

Israel to Security Council: urgently condemn, act against Iran for maritime attacks

Israel’s Ambassador to the US and the United Nations Gilad Erdan dispatched a letter of complaint to the Security Council in the wake of the serious incident in which Iran attacked an Israeli-managed ship with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in the Gulf of Oman last week. Read more

‘Unlawful and callous attack’: US, UK condemn Iran’s attack on Israeli-owned ship

Israel expressed satisfaction over the strong international condemnation of Iran following its apparent attack on an Israel-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week, as world powers guaranteed a powerful response against the Islamic Republic. Read more

Israeli FM: Iran is ‘exporter of terrorism that harms entire world’

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke on Saturday night with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the attack on the Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday night, in which an Iranian drone killed two crewmen. Read more

Iranian judoka, Israeli coach record message about peace, friendship in sports

Iranian judoka Vahid Sarlak and Israel’s national women’s judo coach Shani Hershko filmed a message about keeping politics out of sports at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Read more

Iranians shout ‘death to the dictator’ as countrywide protests spread to Tehran

Protests in Iran over water shortages spread to the country’s capital on Monday, with demonstrators in Tehran shouting “death to the dictator,” AP reported. Read more

Iranian dissident delegation meets with Israeli Foreign Ministry

It was billed as the first Iranian delegation to Israel since the fall of the Shah 42 years earlier. Read more

Iranian dissidents visit Israel

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IAF attacks Iranian Targets in Syria, State Media Reports

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked targets inside Syria in the Al-Safira area in Aleppo on Monday night, hitting Iranian weapons caches, the country’s state media reported. Read more

UN head urges Biden to lift Iran sanctions

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to lift sanctions on Iran as stipulated by the 2015 nuclear accord signed between Iran and world powers. Read more

Former ambassador Gold: World powers must work to prevent Iran’s quest for hegemony

“Iran will never get a nuclear weapon on my watch.” Read more

The irrational faith in reason of the liberal intellectual

Anyone who imagines that the increasingly aggressive behaviour of the Iranian regime will force U.S. President Joe Biden to abandon his attempted revival of the lethal 2015 nuclear deal is almost certainly in for a rude awakening. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…A Butchered Election. Read more

‘The Butcher of Tehran’: Israel slams Iran’s election of Ebrahim Raisi

Israel harshly condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran following the election of its new president Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday. Read more

Amid internal debate, Hamas trying to reopen offices in Damascus

A series of events and developments, accompanied by reports in the Arab and especially Lebanese media, indicate Hamas’ intention to renew its relations with the Syrian regime in Damascus after 10 years of severing ties. Read more

Netanyahu: Israel will get rid of Iran’s existential threat, even if US opposes

If faced with the difficult situation of having to choose between an Iran armed with nuclear weapons or a diplomatic clash with Washington following an attack on Iran, Israel would choose the latter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared. Read more

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