Israel AG Says Shift Barrier to Avoid Sanctions
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Israel's attorney general urged the government Thursday to swiftly reroute its barrier in the occupied West Bank to minimize the risk of international sanctions after the World Court deemed the project illegal.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in remarks published Thursday that tougher economic sanctions against Iran would force Tehran to "review" its nuclear program.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel's attorney general urged the  government Thursday to swiftly reroute its barrier in the  occupied West Bank to minimize the risk of international  sanctions after the World Court deemed the project illegal.
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Israel is reluctant to remove roadblocks and other West Bank restrictions to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's new government until he does more to curb militants, officials said ahead of a summit on Monday.
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Israel won't be able to carry out a major West Bank pullback for 2 1/2 years because it first needs a missile defense system in place to protect it against Palestinian rocket fire, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told a parliamentary committee yesterday.
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Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday against a broad offensive in Gaza to curb cross-border rocket attacks but did not rule out cutting off Israeli-supplied power to the territory, a government official said.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was given a double warning over its policies in the West Bank as its top legal officer said it faced a real threat of sanctions over its controversial separation barrier and the United States condemned the latest ...
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Israel renewed its threat on Monday to remove Yasser Arafat but hinted it had delayed taking action against the Palestinian president to avoid complicating a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak made a fence-mending visit to Egypt on Wednesday after Israel's foreign minister accused Cairo of risking stability by not stopping arms smuggling into Gaza.
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Measures adopted by the Non-Aligned Movement to boycott Israeli settlers and firms building the West Bank barrier have stirred real worries in the Jewish state of a broader sanctions campaign.
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Israel is to re-route part of the West Bank barrier, bringing it closer to Israel's 1967 border with Palestinian territories.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed  Wednesday to changes in the route of Israel's West Bank barrier  but insisted on keeping key Jewish settlement blocks inside,  political sources said.
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Israeli officials have redrawn the planned route of an unfinished stretch of Israel&#39;s separation barrier so that it will not take West Bank land, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Monday.
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire by militants, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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The Palestinian prime minister said he failed to win assurances from Israel's defense minister Thursday that he'll ease stifling restrictions on Palestinian movement Â a measure seen as key to the success of an ambitious international effort to revive the Palestinian economy.
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An Israeli government report has warned that the country could face sanctions and become a pariah state if its conflict with the Palestinians is not resolved.