US-Iranian exchanges on fast forward
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report
March 31, 2009, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Washington and Tehran are accelerating the tempo of their exchanges,DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports. Keeping pace is Barack Obama's search for a fast military exit from Afghanistan.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly picked up this twin process from its conception and uncovered exclusive details of its progress.
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Israel youth, 16, dies of axe wounds inflicted by Palestinian terroristApril 2, 2009, 3:26 PM (GMT+02:00) One or more Palestinian terrorists rampaged around Bat Ayin, in the West Bank Gush Etzion bloc Thursday, April 2, attacking two Israeli boys with an axe. Shlomo Nativ, 16, died of his wounds, the second, aged 7, is seriously injured. Residents opened fire on the terrorists who managed to get away. Heavy security reinforcements were rushed to the area. They set up roadblocks and surrounded neighboring Arab villages to search for the killer or killers. All the communities in the area were put on terror alert. The attack occurred on the second day of school holiday for the Passover festival. | ||
Netanyahu schedules April trips to Cairo, Amman, Washington, MoscowDEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 2, 2009, 9:55 AM (GMT+02:00)  Binyamin Netanyahu launches diplomatic whirl DEBKAfile's political sources reveal Binyamin Netanyahu's planned launch of his second term as prime minister with a flurry of diplomacy. Thursday, April 2, trips to Cairo and Jordan had already been scheduled for talks with president Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah II, followed by a visit to Washington to meet President Barack Obama and to Moscow for talks with prime minister Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu is considering becoming the first Israeli prime minister to visit the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. | ||
New Israeli FM disavows Annapolis process, US official reaffirms two-state solution
April 1, 2009, 10:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli foreign minister
A senior US official accompanying president Barack Obama to the G20 summit in London made this remark Wednesday April 1, in response to a statement from Avigdor Lieberman on his first day as foreign minister. Lieberman stressed that the incoming Netanyahu government was not bound by commitments made at the US-sponsored 2007 Annapolis conference for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was committed only to the Middle East road map.
US and Russian presidents call Binyamin Netanyahu with congratulations on new government.
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