Senior editor of Veterans Today, Gordon Duff says that there have been several planned assassination attempts against high-ranking American officials.   "We have very solid information that there’s been planned assassination attempts on several members of the government including the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State," Duff told Press TV's U.S. Desk in a phone interview on ...

A group of Nobel peace prize-winners, prominent artists and activists have issued a call for an international military boycott of Israel following its assault on the Gaza Strip this month. The letter also denounces the US, EU and several developing countries for what it describes as their "complicity" through weapons sales and other military support in the attack that killed 160 Palestinians, many of them c ...

The Israeli regime has completed the first round of tests on a new missile shield system following a failure of its Iron Dome to intercept hundreds of rockets and missiles fired from the Gaza Strip. The testing was reportedly conducted in Negev Desert on Monday. 
 The interceptor missile system, which is called the “Magic Wand” or “David’s Sling,” is being co-developed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Sy ...

Britain is prepared to back a key vote recognising Palestinian statehood at the United Nations if Mahmoud Abbas pledges not to pursue Israel for war crimes and to resume peace talks. Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has called for Britain's backing in part because of its historic responsibility for Palestine. The government has previously refused, citing strong US and Israeli objections and fe ...

The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews, according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the head of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages and a senior Sephardi adjudicator. “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,” he said in his weekly Saturday night sermon on the laws regarding the actions non-Jews are permitted to perform on Shabbat. 
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The Israeli regime is set to test-fire a new missile shield developed by US company Raytheon after its Iron Dome missile system failed to intercept hundreds of rockets and missiles fired from Gaza. Israel has turned to engineers from the American company to help the regime develop the next-generation missile shield called the Stunner. According to Boston Globe newspaper, the new missile interceptor is sched ...

China has expressed support to the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel and their bid to upgrade their status at the United Nations, and is giving them $1 million in aid, a Palestinian envoy said Friday. Beijing supports "stopping any kind of aggression from the Israelis against the Palestinian people," Bassam al-Salhi told reporters following talks in Beijing with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi ...

Health authorities in Gaza warned last night of a critical shortage of life-saving drugs and medical supplies as casualties threatened to overwhelm the main Al Shifa hospital in the city. The World Health Organisation said it was "deeply concerned" about the escalating situation and appealed for $10m (£6m) of funding over the next three months. At the 700-bed Shifa hospital, where 80 per cent of casualties ...

Mr Sharon, an activist for the opposition Kadima party said that Israel's south would only be calm when Israel would be able to declare total victory over Hamas and other radical groups in the city. 
 Otherwise the alternative would be to reoccupy the territory that his father ordered a withdrawal from in 2005. To do so the army should unleash an all-out assault. "Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't s ...

You've seen the pictures, read about the bloodshed, heard the accusations. The military head of Hamas in Gaza, pictured, was assassinated by Israel. Rockets fired in retaliation killed three Israelis and Israel then went into overkill. It is 95 years this month since the Balfour Declaration. Lord Balfour who was Foreign Secretary in 1917, informed Baron Rothschild that Britain would back a new Jewish state ...