Jerusalem News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
The so-called prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, said Sunday that the 1993 Oslo Accords signed between the Rabin government and the PLO promised the Arabs a state including the entire "West Bank" and eastern Jerusalem. "Our goal is to stop the occupation of all the territories occupied in 1967 and to establish a state on that land," Fayyad said. According...
the Dry Bones Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon from December 1999. Ten years ago next month. I've posted this Golden Oldie because the ex-President is here in Israel to share his "wisdom" with us. According to the Associated Press (as quoted by Haaretz) Bill Clinton in Israel: There would be peace if Rabin were still alive "Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Saturday that if former...
Israeli Occupation Archive (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The banner referred to 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, which Peres won together with former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that resulted in the Oslo... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By Chris Hedges "....The two-state solution, long held up as the way out of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, flickered and died with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. No Israeli leader since, including Ehud Barack, has shown any interest in its implementation. Israeli governments have instead cynically used the promise of negotiations as a cover to steadily expand settlements,...
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
From the Treppenwitz blog: Let's look at a recent statement Bill Clinton made in an interview regarding the middle east peace process to see if we can spot anything that fits the definition of fallacy: "...[not] a single week's gone by [since Yitzhak Rabin's assassination] in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Tel Aviv - Former US president Bill Clinton has said he believes that Israel would today be living in peace with its neighbours had former premier Yitzhak Rabin not been killed in 1995, Israeli media reported Sunday. Not a single week has gone by in...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Palestinian plans to possibly unilaterally declare a state continues to yield reactions in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to reject the increasingly strengthening Palestinian imitative during his speech at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem on Sunday. He will warn the Palestinians against moving forward with the initiative, emphasizing Israel's objection, and will stress that the solution...
Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Can you believe this? Bill Clinton claims that not a week goes by that he doesn't think of Monica Lewinsky Yitzchak Rabin? "In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of [former prime minister] Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly," Clinton said. "Nor has a single week gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Bill Clinton says that a week does not go by that he doesn't think of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and miss him terribly. Do you believe that? I don't. Cllinton also says he often thinks that if Rabin had not been killed, "we would have had peace within three years." Do you believe that? I believe Clinton often has this self-serving thought. The truth of the underlying proposition...
Israellycool (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Former US President Bill Clinton – currently in Israel – thinks it was the murder of former Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that has impeded peace. “Nor has a single week gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years [...]
PrebleNY.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Would you believe?: Bill Clinton says that a week does not go by that he doesn’t think of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and miss him terribly. Do you believe that? I don’t. Cllinton also says he often thinks that if Rabin had not been killed, “we would have had peace within three years.” [...]
FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
One sometimes forgets what a fool Bill Clinton was capable of being. And then he reminds us: “In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly,” Clinton told a VIP gathering at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv. “Nor has a [...]
StarSpangledHaggis (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Oh, good grief. I don't want to be a jerk, but can we please call this what it was? An evil person, misusing Islam, brutally murdered 13 people. There. I said it. The "I" word. How many talking heads are going to say that this was not about Islam? I mean, okay, it wasn't; not only. But had he been a graduate of Oral Roberts University, a teabagger and a member of some cuckoo Christian fundamentalist...
Israelity (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
There can’t be many people on the left or the right in Israel who don’t still wonder what would have happened if former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hadn’t died the night he was shot by religious fanatic Yigal Amir. Would we have peace now? Would the second intifada have been avoided? Or would everything have unfolded [...]
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Last update - 14:26 02/11/2009 Courtesy of Haaretz NewsPaper A senior Shin Bet official said Jewish terrorists that have not been caught are still at large and may be planning future attacks, Israel Radio reported on Monday. The official's comments follow the announcement on Sunday that settler Yaakov Teitel was arrested last month for allegedly killing two Palestinians and carrying out a string of...
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