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The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 12th, 2009
My friend Richard Landes has just launched a new website : Understanding the Goldstone Report.
Those of us who have constructed Understanding the Goldstone Report, have been following the claims under contention since the events themselves almost a year ago, and have read the report in detail. We offer a wide range of analysis, from careful [...]
The Day In Israel: Sun Oct 11th, 2009
Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath has expressed her views on how Israel can reduce palestinian terrorism.
Israeli Nobel Prize for chemistry laureate Professor Ada Yonath on Saturday said all Hamas prisoners held in Israel should be released in order to bring Gilad Shalit home.
“I don’t understand why we incarcerate them in Israel [...]
The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 8th, 2009
Believe it or not, anti-Israel celebrity Vanessa Redgrave has opposed those who protested the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to showcase Tel Aviv.
British actress Vanessa Redgrave – a well-known critic of Israel – has joined the controversy surrounding the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to showcase Tel Aviv, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
Only this time, she is [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Oct 7th, 2009
Much has been made of the PA’s decision to delay the vote on the Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of war crimes.
While the decision has mainly been attributed to US pressure, Al Jazeera is reporting something else entirely.
A videotape is behind the decision by the Palestinian Authority to delay the vote on a UN report [...]
The Day In Israel: Tues Oct 6th, 2009
PA President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly considering firing a number of his top aides who advised him to withdraw the motion to the UN Human Rights Council regarding the Goldstone Report findings, a decision that has led to him being ripped a new one by his own people.
A senior PA official in Ramallah claimed that [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 23rd, 2009
It looks like Obama has adopted the annoyed schoolteacher approach to peacemaking,
US President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday that he was dissatisfied with their recent foot-dragging on getting Israeli-Palestinian talks restarted.
A senior White House source yesterday told Haaretz that “during the tripartite meeting Obama strongly expressed [...]
The Day In Israel: Mon Sept 21st, 2009
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and President Barack Obama are set to meet on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, according to a surprise White House announcement on Saturday night.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at [...]
The Day In Israel: Tues Sept 15th, 2009
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Ha’aretz has reported that Israeli President Shimon Peres met secretly with lead palestinian negotiator Saeb “Massacre” Erekat last week in Jerusalem “in an effort to ease the way toward a tripartite meeting at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23″ involving “US President Barack Obama, Prime [...]
The Day In Israel: Mon Aug 31st, 2009
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Hamas slammed the UN over it’s plans to teach palestinian children in Gaza about the Holocaust, saying “We refuse to let our children study a lie invented by the Zionists.”
Meanwhile in the “West Bank”, teachers said there was no official guidance on teaching about the Holocaust. No [...]
Israel Kills Wife of Abu Mazen
No, not that Abu Mazen.
And we didn’t exactly kill her. Although Ma’an typically lays the blame with us.
A 52-year-old Palestinian woman died of a heart attack on Sunday when she discovered that none of her three imprisoned sons was to be released by Israel in Monday’s prisoner release, her husband said.
Rebheyeh Saleh Al-Qanni, known as [...]
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