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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must understand that Israel will not return the Golan Heights to him on a "silver platter" if he continues to support Iran and its radical Islamist proxies in the region, Israel's president said Monday.

Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, stands with Israeli military chief Lt.

"Yes, we do want to get the Golan back on a silver platter," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem was quoted by AFP as saying on Tuesday.

An Israeli soldier being held in Gaza by Hamas militants is in good condition, said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who said he hopes the issue of the soldier's release will be resolved soon, Mubarak's comments came during a news conference Tuesday with Israeli President Shimon Peres who was visiting Cairo.

Syria can't expect to get the Golan Heights on a silver platter while maintaining its ties with Hezbollah and Iran , Israeli President Shimon Peres told German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday.

A Palestinian labourer prays at a construction site in a settlement near Jerusalem known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim on June 5, 2009 Agencies Defence Minister Ehud Barak said he would discuss with a US envoy on Monday a compromise over a peace plan calling for an Israeli settlement freeze and seek ways to promote ...

ASTANA a ' During his keynote address at the opening session of the interfaith conference in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Israeli President Shimon Peres called on Saudi King Abdullah to meet either in Jerusalem or Riyadh, or to travel to Kazakhstan in order to advance the Israeli-Arab peace process.

Central Asia News.Net Wednesday 1st July, 2009 New Delhi, July 1 : A seventeen member delegation is representing India at the Third Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions starting in Astana in Kazakhstan from today .

Solidarity with Palestine is being expressed in many different ways. By Art Young The movement to call Israel to account for its crimes against the Palestinian people is growing, it is "invading the mainstream discourse, becoming part of the constant and unrelenting drumbeat against Israel." It could eventually threaten the existence of the Jewish ...

Israeli President Shimon Peres applauded Iran's pro-reform protesters Sunday, saying the young should "raise their voice for freedom" _ an explicit message of support from a country that sees itself as most endangered by the hard-line government in Tehran.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev assured his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres that his country would not assist Iran in advancing its nuclear program.

Iran has recalled its ambassador to Azerbaijan for consultations after a visit by President Shimon Peres to the Islamic Republic's northwestern neighbor, an Iranian news agency reported on Monday.

Trend News: On Sunday, after the talks were held in the presence of two states delegations, a ceremony of signing documents was held in the presence of Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Shimon Peres of Israel, AzerTAj state news agency reported.

As part of a strategy by Israel to improve relations with moderate, secular countries of the Islamic world, President Shimon Peres is visiting Azerbaijan on June 28.

AFTER 60 roller-coaster years in Israeli politics, including two stints as prime minister, Shimon Peres probably did not expect his career to take any more surprising turns.

China's Mideast envoy Wu Sike held talks on Thursday in Jerusalem with Israeli President Shimon Peres on bilateral relations, regional peace situation and other issues.

President Shimon Peres has adopted former Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann's recommendation to reduce the sentence of Suleiman Al-Abeid to 27 years.

Ever since the Six Day War of June 1967, a small number of Israelis, not all on the left, supported the idea of two states as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, Oren repeatedly confirmed the facts of the Armenian Genocide in his writings.

Julia Gillard has arrived in Israel for talks with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders.