Court postpones Netanyahu appearance in corruption trial

An Israeli court has postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay with the support of President Donald Trump.

Netanyahu admits Israel backing ‘criminal’ groups in Gaza

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his regime is using armed gangs in Gaza to help fight Hamas, his admission coming after a new wave of military strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip that left at least 52 Palestinians dead.

By staff writer

Netanyahu is both war criminal and falsifier

TEHRAN – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not only a war criminal and a great cheater, but also a master of distorting the facts. Whenever he speaks about peace, he seeks total surrender. He also calls his cruelty against Palestinians a defense against “terrorism”.

Netanyahu revives prospect of Palestinians being forced to leave Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to increase military pressure on Hamas. He said the tactic would pave the way for Israel to take control of Gaza and implement “the Trump plan" for evicting Palestinians from the enclave.

By Dr Ramzy Baroud

The monkey’s tail: How Netanyahu’s ambitions expose Israel’s vulnerabilities

There’s a timeless Chinese proverb which warns: “The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, seems to heed neither the lessons of history nor the wisdom of such folk sayings.

Hamas says Netanyahu ‘intentionally sabotaging’ Gaza truce

A Hamas official has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “intentionally sabotaging” the Gaza ceasefire deal after Israel postponed the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Netanyahu’s testimony in corruption trial moved for security reasons

Netanyahu’s testimony in his corruption trial will be moved from Jerusalem (al-Quds) to an underground fortified hall in Tel Aviv, The Times of Israel has reported citing the country’s court administration.

The ICC warrants over Gaza are a warning for the U.S., too

As of Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is officially wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity — a stunning position for the leader of one of the nations closest to the U.S., which positions itself as a champion of international humanitarian law to protect against such crimes.

By Batool Subeiti

The enemy will see, not just hear

BEIRUT - The Lebanese Islamic resistance’s recent strikes have delivered multiple messages to the Israeli occupation entity. Whilst the resistance is fully capable of targeting settlers, it chooses not to. It maintains a careful balance.

Foreign Ministry summons British diplomat over anti-Iran sanctions

TEHRAN – Following Britain’s sanctions against three Iranian individuals and an institution under the pretext of causing instability in the West Asia region, the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the British charge d’affairs to declare the Islamic Republic’s protest to the move.

ICC prosecutor urges judges to rule on warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on judges to “urgently” rule on his request for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others linked to the war on Gaza.

Haniyeh assassination intended to drag US into war: commentary

TEHRAN - In a commentary on August 1, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft said Israel’s assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran “around Pezeshkian’s inauguration is unlikely a coincidence.”

By Batool Subeiti

Israeli failures and lack of solutions

BEIRUT - Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and the theatrical clapping received each minute can only be categorized as the American establishment is seeking to put a good face to the Israeli occupation entity’s failures.

By Professor Hossein Askari

Could the Gaza war morph into a Muslim-Jewish war and entrap the United States?

PORTLAND - Most people have witnessed the unfolding Israeli horrors in Gaza. No sane human being could classify Israel’s war as self-defense. It is brutal carnage in real time. Israel has killed well over 40,000 Palestinians, including 30,000 women and children in Gaza, with many more likely buried under the rubble and thousands injured; it has denied food and basic medicine to suffering Palestinians who have had limbs amputated without anesthetic and who face imminent danger of starvation, cholera and polio; and it has displaced the entire population of Gaza several times over.

Iran lambasts US for embracing 'criminal' Netanyahu

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly criticized the United States for warmly welcoming “criminal” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite butchering and maiming tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.

ICC demands Israel, US end threats against the court over Gaza war probe

The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has demanded an end to the intimidation of its staff, saying such threats could constitute an offence against the “administration of justice” by the world’s permanent war crimes court.

By Parviz Rashidi

Sympathizing with grieving Gazans is synonymous with anti-Semitism!

TEHRAN - Police crackdown and arrest of students at American universities are an open violation of the right to protest and freedom of opinion.

With Netanyahu threatening Rafah invasion, Biden prepares to send Israel more bombs

The most relevant fact about the Biden administration’s current position on the war against Gaza is this: There is no Israeli war crime too extreme for Joe Biden to consider pausing, to say nothing of cutting off, the flow of U.S. weapons and financial support for Israel’s war of annihilation.

By Professor Hossein Askari

American duplicity and Arab cowardice enabling Israeli war crimes and ethnic cleansing

President Biden, looking somber, keeps urging Israel to avoid civilian deaths and to use targeted strikes on Hamas. Yet he keeps supplying Israel with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs that are designed to kill indiscriminately and over a wide area! 

100 Chilean lawyers demand an arrest warrant against Netanyahu

100 Chilean lawyers, most of whom are of Palestinian origin, filed a complaint before the International Criminal Court regarding the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip, namely genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, which violate the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.

By M.A. Saki

Netanyahu has staffed his cabinet with ‘mad bigots’: philosopher

'There are limits to the militaristic approach favored by the Israeli right-wing'

TEHRAN – A professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London, tells the Tehran Times that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has staffed his cabinet with “mad bigots” for political gains.