Kicking footballs is a threat to the national security of Israel. A friendly game between an Arab soccer team and a Palestinian team was supposed to inaugurate the new stadium being built in the eastern part of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, at the end of the year. “Supposed to” because the Civil Administration, an arm of the [...] Related posts: Brazilian Football (Soccer) teams will not play...
A left-of-center media watch group, F.A.I.R., is upset at the Washington Post. Why? Israeli Settlement Isn't, Says Washington Post ...The White House's muddled position on settlement expansion has been a key part of Israel-Palestine negotiations. Many headlines framed the news as you'd expect (New York Times: "Plan to Expand Jerusalem Settlement Angers U.S.", for example) . The Washington...
Also see: "Sarah Palin and the Rapture" What Sarah Palin's "Jewish People will be Flocking to Israel" Prediction Means Bruce Wilson AlterNet | November 21, 2009. Palin's associated with a religious tendency whose leaders promote anti-Jewish conspiracy theory It's commonly understood that statements such as Sarah Palin's prediction that Jews will soon be "flocking to Israel"...
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 17, 2009 Statement by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Jerusalem We are dismayed at the Jerusalem Planning Committee’s decision to move forward on the approval process for the expansion of Gilo in Jerusalem. At a time when we are working to re-launch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our...
Fatah had made a strategic decision to declare a third intifada against Israel, movement officials told Nazereth-based newspaper Hadith Anas , citing the failed peace talks as the reason for their resolution. The newspaper report quoted Fatah Central Committee members as saying that the movement wished to implement a decision made during its sixth convention, which assembled last August in the West...
“We committed Nazi acts.” -Aharon Zisling, Israel’s first Agriculture Minister “There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested.” -General Richard Catling, British Army Assistant Inspector after interrogating several female survivors. (The Palestinian...
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have agreed not to fire rockets into Israel to avoid a possible military backlash, Hamas' interior minister said Saturday.
It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make mincemeat out of the Obama administration’s “no new settlements” position. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu is bragging about Israel’s latest victory over the US government as Israel continues to build illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land. In May President Obama read the Israelis the riot act, telling the Israeli government...
JP here. Not been posting on this blog for a while, just thought I'd give a run-down of my opinions on the news over the past few weeks and some other things that have popped up in general debates... Let's do 'democracy' at work first shall we? The EU president - So Herman van Rompuy is the new president. I couldn't really care less to be honest. People seem to be of the opinion that Van Rompuy will...
As South America continues to head South, David Bor writes me with this deeply disturbing update from Brazil. David writes: Yesterday,Friday (11-20) while receiving Mahmoud Abbas in Bahia one of the Brazilian States (the governor is a Jew),leftist president Lula da Silva said that Israel has to stop building in the "palestinian capital" meaning of course Jerusalem, and that Israel is the...
Tracing the Tribe loves family reunions. The Jewish Chronicle covered the recent get-together of the Sugarman family in Israel. The story was written by one of the attendees - Gita Conn - making it very personal, indeed. Thirty-six people from the Conn branch of Manchester were among the more than 200 people - including 80 children - at the reunion in LaRomme Hall, in Rehovot. Some were meeting for...
Coulter is always fun: It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and...
Israel arrested five senior Palestinian National Authority (PNA) officers in the West Bank Friday morning, for the first time in about three years, local news service Ynet reported. Israeli defense establishment confirmed the number of Palestinian officers arrested, but did not give additional details about the circumstances of their detention, said the report. Citing Palestinian sources, the report...
A MAP OF ARCHAEOLOGY SITES has won an award at the ASOR meetings, which are taking place here in New Orleans alongside of SBL: Archaeologists publish first map of contested sites in Middle East New online map reveals archaeological activity on Holy Land sites in the West Bank and East Jerusalem By UCLA Newsroom November 20, 2009 Category: Research A team of archaeologists from UCLA, USC, Israel and...
Free Mohammad Othman, Ezra Nawi and the Shiminstim The facade of the Middle East’s ‘only democracy’ is slipping. Gaoling its critics, Arabs but now also Jews, is the action of a State for whom the enemy within is everywhere. This is the ‘Jewish’ State in the 21st Century. A state based on the principline of ethnicity, biological descent, obsessed by demographics and racial...
?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> Palestine State : Israel should Reform Tactics-II - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** Part-II 1. President Obama gave a cautious welcome to Netanyahu speech, noting "there were a lot of conditions" but that it raised "at least the possibility that...
Compassion, the Obama Message - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal (US President Obama's Mideast Tour) Obama is eager to reach all parts of the world with a message that is nuanced and thoughtful. On the eve of a trip to the Middle East and Europe Obama has said he believes his country can help to get serious Middle East peace negotiations back on track. Obama is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday...
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