GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A high-level Egyptian delegation on Wednesday held urgent talks with Gaza's Hamas rulers, seeking to restore calm after a rocket from the Palestinian area slammed into a home in southern Israel and the Israeli military responded with airstrikes on Hamas targets. The pre-dawn flare-up in...
Israel Accuses Iran of Harboring 'Secret Atomic Warehouse'
UNITED NATIONS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Holding up a poster-board map of an area near Tehran before...
Gaza Protests Escalate After Deal to Ease Blockade Fails
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinians protested Wednesday at a new location along the perimeter fence between Israel and Gaza as Hamas intensified demonstrations at the border after Egyptian-led cease-fire talks stalled. The militant Hamas group was hoping its indirect talks with Israel would result in the lifting of a...
25 Years Later, Oslo Accords Fail to Deliver for Palestinians
Twenty-five years ago, the Oslo accords heralded a promising new era in the long quest for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The agreements, signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, "culminated in mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Israel had long banned as...
Why Can't Israelis & Palestinians End Bloodshed? Retired FBI Agent Explains.
In the second part of our GV Wire series, retired FBI agent and Middle East legal attaché Tom Knowles analyzes the conflicts that fuel the continuing bloodshed between Israel and Hamas, which governs Gaza independently of the Palestinian Authority. At the time of this interview, the move of the U.S. Embassy...
'We Are Raised Pro-Israel.' The Other Side of Story: Retired FBI Agent.
Retired FBI agent and legal attaché Tom Knowles, who was born and raised in Kingsburg, served in the Middle East. In this video interview with GV Wire News Director Bill McEwen, he analyzes the volatile and deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip between the Israelis and Palestinians. Click on the...
Blood on Trump's Hands Because of Jerusalem Embassy: Gideon Levy
Editor's Note: Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy wrote this essay exclusively for GV Wire. The American embassy has moved to Jerusalem. The old embassy in Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv has changed the sign on the building and now it is called “The American Embassy Branch Office.” Israelis and...
Gaza's Hamas Rulers Say Cease-Fire Reached With Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza's Hamas rulers said Wednesday they had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the two sides since a 2014 war. Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, said Egyptian mediators intervened "after the resistance succeeded in warding off...
Will the Gaza Events Further Polarize the Middle East?
By moving the U.S. embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, the United States has added complexity to a situation that was already chaotic. Washington’s move will not change the reality on the ground, as 62 Palestinians have been killed over the last few days. Gaza’s protests marking the 70th anniversary of...
Opinion: Palestinians to Blame for Their Own Misery
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a divisive issue as old as the Torah and Quran. The Holy Scriptures say when Abraham drove out his son Ishmael, so the tensions started in the Middle East. In modern times, Israel continues to battle its Arab neighbors, those living on lands claimed by Palestine,...