Netanyahu: Iran Poses Threat That The Soviet Union Never Did

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that while fear of a nuclear armed Iran poses a unique threat, it is far different from the percieved threat posed by the Soviet Union. (1:30)

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Netanyahu: Most Dangerous Regimes Musn't Have Most Dangerous Weapons

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that we must not allow the world’s most dangerous regimes to possess the world’s most dangerous weapons. (0:56)

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Building Freeze Intended To Expedite Peace Talks, Says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that one purpose for the building freeze in the West Bank was to encourage peace talks with Palestinian leaders. (1:02)

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Netanyahu: Two States For Two Peoples

Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu says that he believes that a two-state solution, in which a demilitarized Palestine recognizes the Jewish state of Israel, will bring peace to the middle east. (0:13)

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U.S. Must Promote Direct Negotiations Between Israel And Palestine, Says Expert

Dr. Mitchell Bard, Executive Director of American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, says that the U.S. must support democratic systems of government, not dictatorships, and must back Israel’s movements to arrive at a peaceful solution through “direct negotiations” with Palestine.  (0:23)

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No Justification For Civilian Deaths In Flotilla Tragedy Says Expert

Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, remarks on the flotilla tragedy and believes there is no cause for aggressive action when civilian lives are involved, no matter what the circumstance. (0:18)
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Other Nations Jealous Of Israel's Economy, Says Israeli Expert

Steven Pease, author of The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement, tells Talk Radio News Service that it can be argued that many Middle Eastern nations are somewhat jealous of Israel due to the fact that its economy has done very well in recent years under the stewardship of Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu. (:29)
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U.S. Must Not Support Israeli Raid On Aid Flotilla, Says Middle East Expert

Amjad Atallah, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., tells Talk Radio News Service that the Obama administration must condemn Israel for its raid over the weekend on an aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. (:20)
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Pence Tells White House To Stop Bullying Israel

Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says on Tuesday that "the whole suggestion that the construction of settlements in undisputed areas of Jerusalem is somehow an affront to the United States, or an affront to the peace process is absurd." (0:32)
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UN Chief Making "Best Efforts" To Faciliate Peace Negotiatons Between Israel, Palestine

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon says during a briefing with reporters Thursday that he is preparing a report ahead of his meeting with the UN General Assembly. Moon tells Talk Radio News Service's Tala Dowlatshahi that he is in talks with Israeli and Palestinian authorities regarding continued peace negotiations between the two sides. (1:14)
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Boehner: Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) responds to President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo and that it is a mistake to put on the same basis the Israelis and the terrorists. Boehner also criticizes President Obama's position towards Guantanamo bay and Iran.
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Tony Blair:Middle East Peace and a Two State Solution

By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service

Tony Blair testified Thursday people want a two state solution but simply don't know how to resolve the well-known issues surrounding it. (1:24)
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Kerry: 15 Seconds In Sderot

Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) discusses how children in Sderot, in southern Israel, have but 15 seconds to find cover when the siren of a rocket attack sounds. He finds this way of life unacceptable and unfair. (0:17)
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Kerry: American Will Support Israel Financially

Senator and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry (D-Mass.) pledged his support for Israel at AIPAC's annual convention. He ensured that Israel would receive the entire $30 billion appropriated for it. (0:27)
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Is Israel's missile defense system necessary?

Jonathan Bronstein explores Israel's recent test of their missile defense system, and what this means for the nation's military capabilities. Two experts commented on this issue. Firstly, Richard Weitz, an analyst from the Hudson Institute, comments specifically on Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities and the possibility for Israel to implement first strike capabilities. Secondly, Benjamin Friedman, a scholar at the Cato Institute, comments on Iran being the greatest threat to Israel, but remains cautious on the military options which Israel should take. (1:59)
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Touma-Sleiman: Netanyahu's rhetoric breeds hatred

Aida Touma-Sleiman, Director of Women Against Violence in Nazareth, discusses how she believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right wing rhetoric make intolerance towards Palestinians acceptable in Israel. She cites the role that Avigdor Lieberman was given in the Israeli government. (0:36)
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Touma-Sleiman: Israel must address 1948

Aida Touma-Sleiman, director of Women Against Violence in Nazareth, discusses how systemic Palestinian disenfranchisement from Israeli politics stems directly from events in 1948. Also, she states how for Israel to truly become a democracy in practice, not only in name, it must grant citizenship to the Palestinians. (0:49)
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"Obama administration...no different than the Bush administration"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Eugene Bird, President of the Council for the National Interest made this distinction at a public hearing today held by the Council for the National Interest on the implications of the current U.S. Military Aid to the Middle East. He said, "The Obama administration with regard to the re-supply of Israel, regardless of what she does, regardless of how she uses the weapons, is no different than the Bush administration.”

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"That was not a war"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a public hearing on current U.S. Military Aid to the Middle East, retired Ambassador Edward Peck said that the fighting in Gaza is not a war. He said, "That wasn't a war. There are not two armies fighting there. There was a huge powerful army, armed, financed and equipped by us, kicking the crappe, that's a French word, c-r-a-p-p-e, kicking the crappe out of a helpless, defenseless people, who had nothing to fight back with."
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“We do not sell arms to Israel, we give arms to Israel"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a public hearing on U.S. Military Aid in the Middle East, retired Ambassodor Edward Peck said “We do not sell arms to Israel, we give arms to Israel. There is no purchase involved. Which is a nice thing, it’s a blank check and as you know that blank check is delivered on the first day of the fiscal year, October 1st, and the Israeli’s can then earn interest on this money while they decide how to spend it...the Israeli’s decide how to spend that money anyway they want with no controls of any kind whatsoever, which is not necessarily in our interests.”
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