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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: Thurs Oct 22nd, 2009
US ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador Susan Rice, told Israelis at Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference that it is not enough just to pay “lip service” to peace and urged the government to immediately relaunch negotiations, without preconditions, aimed at creating an independent palestinian state.
By “lip service”, I guess she means what the Obama [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Oct 21st, 2009
During a conference call with American “rabbis” this week, Richard Goldstone showed just how unbiased and impartial he really is.
“As far as the Israeli government saying our report inhibits the peace process, that is shallow and false. What peace process are they talking about? There isn’t one! The Israeli foreign minister doesn’t want one! What [...]
The Day In Israel: Tues Oct 20th, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has pledged that Israel will ensure the Goldstone report is vetoed at the United Nations General Assembly.
“It’s going to the UN,” the premier told lawmakers from his Likud party. “We’ll make sure it gets vetoed.”
He sounds confident. The question is: should he be?
Senior diplomats in New York, meanwhile, said the [...]
The Day In Israel: Wed Oct 14th, 2009
The palestinians have succeeded in gathering enough support to call a special UNHRC meeting to reopen the debate about alleged war crimes in Gaza later this week.
And by alleged war crimes, I am referring to alleged war crimes by Israel. No-one is interested in discussing Hamas’ actions.
UN officials say 18 of the council’s 47 members [...]
The Day In Israel: Fri Oct 9th, 2009
Yesterday, Israeli President told US Middle East envoy George Mitchell that Israel had full faith in the policies of US President Barack Obama, who he said was trying to advance peace in an extremely fair way by listening to both sides and trying to find a common denominator.
Mr Peres lied.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at [...]
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.
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The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 16th, 2009
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Israel has reacted strongly to the Goldstone Commission Report, calling it “nauseating” and saying it created an unjust “equivalence of a democratic state with a terror organization.”
An initial Foreign Ministry promise to “read the report carefully” transformed quickly into “nausea and fury,” in the words of ministry [...]
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: Sun Sept 13th, 2009
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Israeli President Shimon Peres gave plenty of people a big scare last night when he collapsed at an event.
Peres was standing up and replying to questions by the audience at a Rabin Center function when he collapsed. The president’s personal paramedic on behalf of the national bodyguard [...]
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