Oren: Netanyahu’s Iran anxieties misread as election interference

Published on December 12, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pleadings regarding the Iranian nuclear threat were misinterpreted as interfering in the U.S. election, Israel's ambassador to Washington said.

Once upon a time: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree on Israel

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 23, 2012

Israel had a starring role in the third and final presidential debate last Tuesday night. How big? China, a country of 1 billion people to which America owes $1 trillion and whose military and economic decisions will affect us for years to come, rated 32 mentions.

Obama to tell U.N.: Nuclear Iran poses existential threat to Israel

Published on September 25, 2012

President Barack Obama declared on Tuesday the United States will "do what we must" to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against threatening attacks whose consequences would be devastating.

Will Israel attack Iran? 5 notes following Netanyhau’s Sde Boker address

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on December 5, 2011

Peres: Military option to deal with Iran is nearer

Published on November 4, 2011

Israeli President Shimon Peres added to a debate raging in Israel over whether to attack Iran, when he said on Friday that a military option to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons was nearer.

Q & A With Bruce Feiler

By Gaby Friedman
Published on October 20, 2005

Feiler spoke to The Journal by phone while taking a break from moving into his new Brooklyn home, which he shares with his wife and his 6-month-old identical twin girls.

Iranian Leader Nixes Israel Ties

By Dan Baron
Published on June 30, 2005

Few people in Israel expected a positive turnaround in Iran, but the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of the Islamic republic has raised eyebrows among even the more pessimistic pundits.

Even before giving his first media conference, the fundamentalist mayor of Tehran made clear there would be no new tack toward Israel.

"I will strive to expand relations with everyone, with the exception of Israel," he told the Saudi newspaper, Okaz, Sunday.

That was no surprise in itself, as political leaders in Iran must parrot the policies of the religious clerics.