Six Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ensure the safety of the American citizens who join the Gaza flotilla.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the Syrian government on Tuesday for the harsh way it had responded to pro-democracy protests, while the State Department spokesman said Syria must make more progress on reforms.
The United States is not ready to send troops to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
Egypt\’s foreign policy will change, but it has an interest in sustaining its peace accords with Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton said. \”I think there will be different decisions\” on foreign policy, the U.S. secretary of state told NPR on Wednesday after she toured Egypt. It was Clinton\’s first visit there since the revolution that ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak, who had maintained the Camp David accords with Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s patience with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has \”run out,\” a WikiLeaks cable leaked on Monday revealed.
After meeting with U.S. leaders, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak predicted that comprehensive talks with the Palestinians on all final status issues would begin within months.
Alan Gross, a contractor that the U.S. State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews, marked a year in a Cuban jail. Cuban authorities detained Gross on Dec, 3 2009 on his way out of the country. Gross\’ family and State Department officials says he was in the country on a U.S. Agency for International Development contract to help the country\’s Jewish community, numbering about 1,500, to communicate with other Jewish communities through the Internet.
The Obama administration is seeking ways to assist Israel in combating its forest fires, while New York sent Israel a shipment of fire retardant. A 747 loaded with Fire Troll 931, a fire retardant chemical, left New York Thursday night bound for Israel. The shipment was arranged by the Fire Dept. of New York and the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
A poll of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza conducted last month by a research firm for the Israel Project, a nonprofit education organization, found that a majority of Palestinians support direct peace negotiations with Israel and a two-state solution to the conflict.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s discussions with the Obama administration for a new freeze on settlement building did not include extending the freeze to eastern Jerusalem, his office said.
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