PM: J'lem owes debt of honor to Ze'evi

Israel rejects Palestinian move

By: intellectual

Israel has rejected a move by the Palestinians to gain international recognition for an independent state, saying negotiations are the solution. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said such unilateral moves would unravel past agreements to reach Middle East peace. The Palestinians said they will ask the UN Security Council to recognise an ...

25 days ago

Plan to Expand Jewish Area in Jerusalem Angers U.S.

By: dustgeer

  Israel said on Tuesday that it had advanced plans to expand a Jewish district of Jerusalem in territory that was captured in 1967 and that the Palestinians claim as part of their future state — a move likely to further complicate the Obama administration’s faltering efforts to restart peace talks. The news that the building ...

23 days ago

Abbas demands freezing all settlement building as condition of peace ...

By: northsunm32

   The Obama administration gave in to Israel on freezing all building activity back in September. Apparently Clinton has a bad memory. Earlier in the year the Obama administration had been adamant that all activity cease in order to move peace negotiations along but in September suddenly a much less stringent view was taken ...

about 1 month ago

Netanyahu: No war crimes trials for Israelis

By: genius-world

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges over their actions during last winter's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a keynote address to parliament. Netanyahu's fiery rhetoric — and his decision ...

about 1 month ago