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Israeli News Briefs
Livni Flies to New York for Meeting at UN (IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipy Livni is set to fly to New York Tuesday evening for a meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. Livni is also expected to meet with diplomatic officials and Jewish community leaders. The foreign minister originally intended to fly to New York to attend the ceasefire talks over the weekend but was not allowed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to do so. Posturing by Iran (IsraelNN.com) Iranian officials are threatening to fire long-range missiles at Tel Aviv if Israel attacks Iran. An Iranian religious leader said in a state-run television interview on Tuesday that the Islamic country would launch 2,000 kilometer missiles at Israels White City if the Jewish state makes one iota of aggression against Iran. Cleric Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Islamic council that appoints and dismisses the countrys top leader, said the 70-kilometer range missiles fired by Hizbullah during the war against northern communities turned Israel into a country of ghosts. IDF Corners al-Aksa Terrorists in Shechem (IsraelNN.com) IDF troops surrounded a safe house in which an operative from the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades terror group was hiding on Tuesday. Ahmad Nadi was warned by IDF soldiers to turn himself in, as his house was in the process of being bulldozed. Other wanted terrorists were cornered in a second building, both in the Askhar neighborhood of Shechem. Exchanges of fire were reported by local sources, who said that two people were injured during the firefight. Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades is the military division of the Fatah faction run by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. FM Livni: Syria Has Choices to Make (IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipy Livni said Tuesday that Syria will have to make a choice whether to continue its support of Hizbullah attacks or allow Lebanon to build a strong future. Syria will need to decide where they stand, she said. Lebanon is supposed to take off in a different direction without them. They can continue influencing and leading an open front with Hizbullah. Syrian President Bashar Assad said The true path to peace is negotiation, but if that is not possible, then resistance is the only way. Assad added that the resistance he referred to was not limited to armed struggle, but could be cultural and political. Posted by: Steve 2006-08-15 |
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