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The Day In Israel: Thurs Nov 19th, 2009
With Israeli’s announcement that it will press forward with construction of 900 apartments in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood being followed by some Obama seething (not to mention seething of the EU kind), Member of Knesset Danny Danon made a valid point.
“President Obama should not interfere with the rights of the Jewish people to live in Jerusalem,” [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Nov 11th, 2009
During yesterday’s session of the UN Security Council, the US accused Iran of violating a UN arms embargo by secretly sending weapons to Hizbullah via Syria in a ship seized by Israel.
Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari responded by accusing Israel of committing “an act of piracy on the high seas,” and dismissed the charges as [...]
The Day In Israel: Tues Nov 10th, 2009
With Kadima “Number 2″ Shaul Mofaz appealing to legal experts outside of Israel to examine the possibility of holding meetings with Hamas terrorists as part of his hairbrained peace plan, another terrorist group has basically told him where he can shove it.
Clue: It involves a place on his anatomy where the sun don’t shine.
Updates (Israel [...]
The Day In Israel: Mon Nov 9th, 2009
The White House announced that President Barack Obama will be meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister’s trip to Washington, but did not say what would be on their agenda. But according to Ha’aretz, the meeting should be “interesting”.
Relations between Israel and the United States are in crisis. This is the conclusion that [...]
The Day In Israel: Sun Nov 8th, 2009
The Jerusalem Post has reported that PA President Mahmoud Abbas is considering dissolving the PA and declaring the failure of the peace process with Israel, in order to see if the US and other parties will exert enough pressure on Israel to stop settlement construction and recognize the two-state solution. Which has prompted Israeli President [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Nov 4th, 2009
The US House of Representatives yesterday condemned the Goldstone Report as “biased and unworthy of further consideration”, passing (344-36) a a nonbinding resolution urging President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton to oppose unequivocally any endorsement of the report.
Palestinian seething to ensue.
Meanwhile, here is a response to Goldstone from one of the co-sponsors of the [...]
The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 29th, 2009
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev, has warned that the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead will not go away.
The Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead will not go away even if Israel launches an independent inquiry into the campaign, UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said Wednesday.
“There are no legal questions here – and we [...]
The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 26th, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have decided to appoint a small team to review Israel’s course of action on the Goldstone report, and make recommendations on what should be done in the diplomatic, legal and public relations planes.
The prime minister said during the meeting that the establishment of an investigation [...]
The Day In Israel: Sun Oct 25th, 2009
The US Congress is expected to vote in favor on a bipartisan bill calling on US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to categorically negate the UN’s Goldstone Report.
Meanwhile, here in Israel, the cabinet had a heated discussion on whether Israel will set up a commission of inquiry on the Goldstone report’s [...]
The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 19th, 2009
IDF sources responded to reports of Hizbullah finding Israeli “spying devices” by saying the incident was staged in an attempt to divert attention from the explosion of a weapons cache in southern Lebanon last week.
Quite frankly, this is a real possibility, given Hizbullah’s love of the stage. Plus they seem to have had trouble getting [...]
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