All Entries Tagged With: "Mahmoud Abbas"
The Day In Israel: Wednesday Mar 17th, 2010
The US is waiting for Israel’s response to demands raised by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including the cancellation of the Ramat Shlomo construction project in East Jerusalem, yet more goodwill gestures toward the palestinians, and a public declaration by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of his willingness to discuss the conflict’s core issues in the [...]
The Day In Israel: Tuesday Mar 9th, 2010
The Obama administration last night announced that Israel and the PA have agreed to resume the peace process through indirect negotiations, facilitated by US special envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell, but hopes they will lead to direct negotiations. Furthermore, according to Ha’aretz, Mitchell told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas [...]
The Day In Israel: Sunday Mar 7th, 2010
Approximately 3,000 leftists – including Meretz Chairman Haim Oron and New Israel Fund President Naomi Chazan – joined palestinians in demonstrating in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood Saturday evening, protesting the eviction of four palestinian families from homes in August and the settlement of Jewish families inside the neighborhood.
Incidentally, the leftist Ha’aretz had the figure [...]
The Day In Israel: Tuesday Feb 23rd, 2010
During talks yesterday in Brussels, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband demanded full cooperation from Israel with a British inquiry into the use of bogus passports.
The Serious and Organized Crime Agency (who I guess are serious and organized -ed.) or SOCA is investigating how the identities of British citizens were stolen.
“He made clear that we were [...]
The Day In Israel: Monday Feb 22nd, 2010
The BBC has been blasted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) for airing an accusation that Jews around the world assist in supposed Mossad assassinations.
The AJC said in a statement that it was “dismayed that a guest on BBC Radio 4 was allowed to state unchallenged” that the Mossad relies on Jews for assassination plots.
“This [...]
The Day In Israel: Wednesday Feb 10th, 2010
The IAF targeted sites in the Southern Gaza Strip in response to Qassams fired into southern Israel over the past few days, with no injuries or damage reported. According to Ma’an news, the air strikes targeted the Yasser Arafat International Airport in Dahaniya.
In other news, there is an airport named after Yasser Arafat, the father [...]
Terrorists By a Different Name
Hamas has backtracked on earlier statements expressing regret over Israelis being harmed by their rockets.
The Hamas government in Gaza distanced itself on Saturday from an earlier statement in which it expressed regret for harming Israeli civilians in rocket attacks.
Hamas, in an unusual move, expressed regret for the deaths of Israeli civilians in Palestinian rocket attacks [...]
The Day In Israel: Monday Feb 1st, 2010
Yet another explanation of the death of founding Hamashole Mahmoud al-Mabhouh: the killers got to him with the help of the Jizz.
Top Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was identified and killed following an interview he gave to Al-Jazeera on instructions from the movement’s leadership in Syria, according to a Fatah-affiliated news agency.
The interview with Mabhouh was [...]
Playing With Fire
PA President Mahmoud Abbas has warned Israeli President Shimon Peres that a third intifada beckons due to the deadlock in negotiations.
Umm, say what?
President Shimon Peres recently warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that continuing the deadlock in negotiations with Israel could lead to a third intifada and that in delaying, Abbas was “playing with fire.”
On [...]
The Day In Israel: Tuesday Jan 5th, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is positive about the chances of “peace talks” with the palestinians resuming soon.
“In recent weeks, I’ve had the impression there is a certain change in atmosphere, and I hope that a maturation that would enable the negotiating process to move forward has occurred,” he told a meeting of his Likud [...]
