News Source: Mother Jones
| 2 months ago
Wikimedia Commons Fri September 11, 2009 4:50 PM PST 1881-1885 —Pogroms in Russia spawn the first large-scale wave of Jewish immigrants to Palestine. Theodore Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, pens The Jewish State, predicting that a "wondrous...
News Source: Reuters
| 2 months ago
U.S. special envoy George Mitchell leaves on Friday to visit Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt as he seeks to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the State Department said. Mitchell has been trying to put together a...
News Source: Washington Post
| 2 months ago
The scene from the Dr. Billye Brim Community Pool, named after the American pastor from Branson, Mo., who helped underwrite it, is decidedly suburban and removed from the international fray over Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The...
News Source: Gulf News
| 2 months ago
September 11, 2009, 23:15 Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said before talks with a US envoy seeking a freeze in Jewish colony activity that Israelis would compromise for peace but were "not ready to be suckers."
News Source: The Daily Star
| 2 months ago
Israel’s hawkish premier heads to Cairo on Sunday for talks focused on a US-led push to revive the Middle East peace process as his settlement policies harm the efforts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will ...
News Source: The Daily Star
| 2 months ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to approve new Jewish settlements on the eve of a possible settlement freeze is the latest round in a cycle that has been repeated so many times over the past 40 years that it would seem mundane...