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The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 1st, 2009

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Hamasholes have promised Egyptian negotiators they will deliver a Book of Psalms sent to Gilad Shalit from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Assuming they live up to their promise (itself a big assumption), this will be another benefit of yesterday’s announced (lopsided) terrorist-for-videotape [...]

The Day In Israel: Wed Sept 30th, 2009

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How bad is the Goldstone Report? Israeli human rights group B’tselem – no strangers to criticizing Israel – has attacked some of the report’s key findings.
The UN Human Rights Council and the Goldstone Report are either biased or mistaken in [...]

The Day In Israel: Thurs Sept 24th, 2009

More of the same from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of “inhuman policies” in the Palestinian territories and of dominating world political and economic affairs in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad assailed Israel for what he said was a barbaric attack on [...]

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: Tues Sept 22nd, 2009

The White House has played down expectations about the meeting between US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas, which is “scheduled” for the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York today.
“We have no grand expectations out of one meeting,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs Monday, saying [...]

The Day In Israel: Fri Sept 18th, 2009

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US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice responded to the Goldstone report.
“We have very serious concerns about many of the recommendations in the report,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Thursday in response to the findings of a UN team that investigated the [...]

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 [...]

The Day In Israel: Tues Sept 8th, 2009

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Never miss and opportunity to miss an opportunity watch: A week after the first official meeting on economic peace between palestinian Minister for National Economy Bassem Khoury and Israeli Minister for Regional Development Silvan Shalom – designed to better the lives of palestinians – the former announced [...]

Sad State of Iranian Affairs

My bat senses tell me the Iranians are not happy about failing to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Iran says its failure to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council was an “obvious injustice.”
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi told reporters in Teheran on Monday that there was “no logical [...]

Where I’m From This is “Fighting Talk”

Now of course, this isn’t a patch on split pants but…. from Ynet and widely reported in Israel:
IDF Northern Command chief says in any future war Israel would use ‘ disproportionate’ force on Lebanese villages from which Hizbullah will fire rockets at its cities. ‘From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military [...]