They show up along the Lebanese border in Land Rovers. One time they'll roll down the window, lift a camera with a long lens and snap a few pictures of an IDF outpost on the other side of the border before driving away. Other times, they will get out and stroll along the border, right next to the UNIFIL and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) positions.

Syrian officials on Saturday threatened to recapture the Golan Heights by force if a peace agreement is not reached with Israel.

With the Tehran regime distracted by growing opposition protests, is now a good time for Israel to strike Iran's nuclear sites?

While President Obama largely has stayed on the sidelines of the mass protests in Iran, a representative of Supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei has blamed the U.S. for the unrest in his country.

Breaking with its practice of issuing laconic one or two-line reactions to reports about Iran's nuclear progress, Jerusalem responded Saturday to the most recent International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran, which said Iran continued to expand its uranium enrichment program despite three sets of UN Security Council sanctions meant to pressure Teheran into freezing such activities.

The UN nuclear agency on Friday reported its second unexplained find of uranium particles at a Syrian nuclear site, in a probe sparked by suspicions that a remote desert site hit by Israeli warplanes in September 2007 was a nearly finished plutonium producing reactor.

The Obama administration contends that unless Israel jumps through the "Palestinian state" hoops, the Arabs cannot support - even silently - action to stop a nuclear Iran.

His face is familiar as we have seen it on occasion on our TV screens, usually spewing venom about the injustices being wrought upon the Arab people of the Middle East. But Imad Moustapha was all smiles today, speaking of a new optimism, America redeeming itself, and a willingness for Syria to negotiate a separate peace with Israel, à la Jordan or Egypt model.

The work of Osama Esid is a visual manifest of this relationship, investigating the social preconceptions and stereotypes that have been created on either side in the past, and which in some way still persist in our collective unconscious. The inquiry into "Orientalism", with its exotic and sensual connotations, from an artistic contemporary point of view generates a huge range of creative and theoretical possibilities which reveal the existing contradictions in the creation of clichés.