Has Israel lost the US Democratic Party?
Washington (CNN) Is the Democratic party over for Israel? By Alexandra Jaffe, CNN Updated 5:59 AM ET, Fri February 27, 2015 For years, support for Israel has been one of the […]
Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
Guardian: Binyamin Netanyahu’s dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iranwas about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document. It is part of a cache of hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world’s […]
The world has broken its promises about rebuilding Gaza – and the children will suffer
theguardian: by Chris Gunness — Six months after international donors pledged billions after the last war, the cash has not materialised, lives remain shattered and the desperate suffering goes on Jibril, left, lost two of his four grandchildren to hypothermia in the storms last month. The family now live […]
Netanyahu on collision course with White House
Source: Arab News JERUSALEM: For someone who was educated in the United States, speaks fluent American-accented English and worked as a management consultant in Boston, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sure knows how to rub his closest ally up the wrong way. In surprisingly critical and unvarnished comments on Wednesday, […]
Interview with Isaac Herzog: ‘Israelis Are Fed Up with Politics of Fear’
Interview Conducted by Nicola Abé and Juliane von Mittelstaedt AFP In an interview, Israeli prime minister candidate Isaac Herzog says the country’s people are “fed up” with Benjamin Netanyahu’s “politics […]
French PM urges Jews to stay after tombs defaced
Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday urged France’s Jews to stay in the country after a fresh call by the Israeli premier for European Jews to emigrate to Israel. “My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not want you to leave,” […]
Netanyahu says European Jews should immigrate to Israel
Aljazeera: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for “massive immigration” of European Jews to Israel following the shooting attack outside a Copenhagen synagogue that killed a Danish Jew. Netanyahu said the government on Sunday will discuss a $46M plan to encourage Jewish immigration from France, Belgium and Ukraine. “This […]
Danish rabbi criticises Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jewish emigration call
Leader of Denmark’s Jews voices “disappointment” over Israeli leader’s “come to Israel” plea following deadly anti-Semitic attack By Robert Tait, Jerusalem Benjamin Netanyahu has clashed with Denmark’s chief rabbi after seizing on Saturday’s deadly shootings in Copenhagen to call on European Jews to emigrate en mass to Israel. Rabbi Jair […]
Hundreds Of Rabbis Around The World Call For Halt To Palestinian Home Demolitions
More than 400 rabbis from Israel, Britain and around the world have called on Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes. By IMEMC News | February 10, 2015 […]
Israel preparing major expansions in four West Bank settlements
Haaretz: On the instructions of the Netanyahu government, the Civil Administration last year prepared major expansions of the settlements of Kedumim, Vered Yericho, Neveh Tzuf and Emanuel. Some 3,740 dunams in the areas of the settlements were marked as state lands. More than 99 percent of state lands are allocated […]
500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
RT: Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes. Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) say Benjamin […]
Turkish FM pulls out of Munich conference due to Israel
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has decided not to attend the 51st Munich Security Conference because of Israeli participation at a session on the Middle East. Çavuşoğlu made the announcement at a press conference in Berlin on Friday after participating in Turkey’s West Europe Consul-Generals’ meeting. The foreign minister planned […]
Head of UN war crimes inquiry resigns after Israel accuses him of pro-Gaza bias
theguardian — William Schabas quits to prevent consultancy work for Palestine Liberation Organisation overshadowing report on last summer’s military offensive A Palestinian woman amid destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip during a humanitarian truce in July 2014. The head of a UN inquiry into last summer’s Israeli military offensive […]
Just another day: Occupation Destroys 1000 m Water Pipe Under Construction
PNN/ Tubas Israeli occupation bulldozers on Thursday destroyed water pipe being constructed, which connects Atoof village West Tubas district, with Khirbet Yezra in the northern Jordan valleys. Aaref Daraghmeh, head […]
Skull find breaks new ground in evolution study
John Noble Wilford,NYT News Service | Jan 30, 2015 Anthropologists exploring a cave in Israel have uncovered a rare 55,000-year-old skull fossil that they say has a %story to tell […]
POLICYWATCH: A War Like No Other: Israel vs. Hezbollah in 2015
Jeffrey White January 29, 2015 Current expectations that the two sides can manage escalation may not hold true, and a new war would be more intense and destructive than in 2006. On January 27, Hezbollah killed two Israeli soldiers in retaliation for the January 18 airstrike against its operatives in […]
Israel: Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had …
Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals Skull found in northern Israeli cave in western Galilee, thought to be female and 55,000 years old, connects interbreeding and move from Africa to Europe Human skull found western Galilee Views of the human skull, with missing jaw, found […]
German rights chief says Israel must work with ICC
Source: Arab News BERLIN: Germany’s top human rights official has urged Israel to cooperate with the International Criminal Court probe into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. After the […]
Robert Fisk: Israel’s attack on Hezbollah a case of shoot first, ask questions later
World View: An Iranian general and six Hezbollah officers have been wiped out by helicopters near the Syrian city of Quneitra. But what were they doing there, asks Robert Fisk Very occasionally, the Israelis go for the jugular. Their helicopter attack on “terrorists” near the Syrian city of Quneitra at […]
Wrongdoers fear scrutiny
The Daily Star The uproar from the U.S. and Israel over the International Criminal Court’s announcement that it will investigate possible war crimes by the Jewish state during its offensive […]