Turkey says Israel not welcome at NATO summit
Turkey blocked the participation of Israel in next month\’s NATO Summit in Chicago, a Turkish newspaper reported.\n
Turkey blocked the participation of Israel in next month\’s NATO Summit in Chicago, a Turkish newspaper reported.\n
The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations called on Thursday for the immediately release of Gilad Shalit, after Egyptian-brokered talks to secure the kidnapped Israeli soldier\’s release had come to a standstill.
While the French-initiated summit for the Union for the Mediterranean did not produce any major breakthroughs, French President Nicolas Sarkozy did recognize one achievement: every Arab country but *Libya sitting down with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Expressions of love, walks down memory lane, even the rain lashing Washington\’s monuments: The latest meeting between Ehud Olmert and George Bush played out like the end of a movie romance — only the Israeli prime minister says he\’s not going anywhere because there is work to be done, especially when it comes to facing down Iran.
What happens next will depend on how skillfully the parties maneuver in trying to advance their often disparate agendas.
More than 1,000 pro-Israel activists from across the United States will meet in Los Angeles for the Oct. 30-31 National Summit on Foreign Policy and Politics of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
As Prime Minister Ehud Barak engages this week in Middle East summitry, there is one issue on which he can afford to make the fewest concessions: Jerusalem.
This weekend\’s Swiss summit between Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad is a make-or-break moment in the quest for peace between Syria and Israel. The American president will soon be a lame duck. The septuagenarian Syrian president is sick and eager to hand over the reins to his son, Bashar. And the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, the man in the empty chair in Geneva, is losing control of his coalition and his constituency.
If they don\’t reach an ag