Panetta:
US attack on Iran would be more effective

US defense secretary says his country has better attack capabilities than Israel. 'It’s clear that
if the US did it we would have a bigger impact,' he tells National Journal.

Abbas to deliver ‘mother of all letters’ to Israel

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will deliver a “political letter” to Israel and a number of other countries next week outlining the Palestinians’ conditions for resuming the peace process, Azzam al-Ahmed, a member of the Fatah central committee, said on Thursday.

Ruling out the possibility that the peace talks would resume soon, Ahmed said the Palestinians were waiting to see what decisions the Quartet members – the US, EU, UN and Russia – would make during their meeting in New York next week.

“The Palestinians cannot accept the continuation of the stalemate in the peace process,” Ahmed said, without elaborating