Israel

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Yoga practitioners Naty Horev, left, of Tel Aviv, Israel, Coral Rodriguez, center, of New York City, and Stephanie Quintero, of Kearny, NJ, salute the sun while celebrating the solstice in New York's Times Square, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Israeli troops patrol the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights early on Monday, June 6, 2011. Israel braced for more border violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to surge into the Israeli-controlled Golan from Syria. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Pro-Palestinian demonstrators try to rescue a man after he was shot by Israeli troops along the border between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on Sunday. Israeli troops opened fire across the Syrian frontier to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed the border.

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Illustration: Israel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Illustration by Kichka, Israel Channel 1, Jerusalem, Israel

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio looks on at right as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu closing remarks are seen as he finishes an address to a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets people on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011, after addressing a joint meeting of Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Members of Congress stand and applaud as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaches to shakes hand with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio as Vice President Joe Biden looks on, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011, after his address to a joint meeting of Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center front), followed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, arrives at the Capitol to address a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting in Washington on Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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An Israeli Arrow interceptor anti-tactical ballistic missile is test-fired in 2007 from an undisclosed location in Israel. It and other major defense projects were developed through a U.S.-Israeli partnership. (Israel Aerospace Industries via Associated Press)

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Illustration: Israel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Pro-Palestinian protesters knock over a "wall separating Israel and Palestine" outside of the Washington convention center where the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is having its annual meeting. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Signs and boxes mock Israeli checkpoints as pro-Palestinian demonstrators make known their displeasure with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama's image is displayed as he tells delegates at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention that the bonds between the US and Israel are "unbreakable", Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)