Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | yesterday
At a meeting in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that he is only willing to 'negotiate' with Israel if he is guaranteed in advance that the 'negotiations' would lead to Israel giving the entire Golan Heights to Syria. Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Sarkozy that he wished to negotiate with the Syrians without
FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
How Assad negotiates Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris last week that he wanted to launch talks with Damascus without preconditions, according to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s top aide Bouthaina Shaaban… However, she said that Assad had responded by saying that before talks could start, he wanted guarantees that Israel would return [...]...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Quds information center has disclosed Thursday that the Israeli occupation authorities have prepared the blueprints for seven settlement projects in the occupied city of Jerusalem as part of its efforts to judaize the Palestinian city. In a statement it issued and published by the Quds Press, the center pointed out that the new suburb that the IOA announced it would construct in Israeli settlement...
Sify (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will seek a final-peace accord with the Palestine Authority if talks resume, and not an interim solution.
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity by Caroline Glick Once again, US President Barack Obama has demonstrated his intention of "putting light" between America and Israel. His hostility toward Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter's visit to Washington this week...
Times Online - Bronwen Maddox (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Israel has surely lost more this week in support abroad — in the US, above all — than it has gained in asserting its right to build houses around Jerusalem.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Israel has surely lost more this week in support abroad — in the US, above all — than it has gained in asserting its right to build houses around Jerusalem.
Safe Democracy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
David Ignatius 11/19/2009 Ramallah, a Palestinian settlement on the West Bank, is making great progress toward functionality and prosperity. But the peace process has imploded and opportunities have been missed as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and President Obama have failed to reach effective terms in their negotiations. The author suggests...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"Even Israeli hard-liners, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, agree that the improvement in Palestinian security forces is real." The rest of the article is a tribute to Fayyad and to the PA collaboration militia of oppression that he has supervised. "Fayyad's biggest success story -- to the Israelis' astonishment -- has been in security. When he became prime minister in 2007,...
The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
An Arab newspaper says that Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas terrorists that would eventually result in the return of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, Arutz 7 reports. According to the report published Thursday in al-Manar, Netanyahu agreed to carry out the first stage of the deal, in which Shalit will be transferred to Egypt. The newspaper,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Palestinian Authority lacks the support to issue another unilateral declaration of independence – it should not be hasty The Palestinian Authority has been making some rather strange decisions lately. In October, it opposed the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, which raised serious questions about Israel's conduct in that conflict, when it first came before the UN human rights council in...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The latest row over Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory BINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israel’s prime minister, came under pressure this week when news leaked of a new plan to build 900 homes in the occupied Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. His aides say that he knew nothing about the scheme before a local planning committee considered it. True or not, the latest settlement expansion is exasperating...
Bare Naked Islam (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, always has, always will. Jerusalem is not even mentioned in the Qur’an except to note that Muhammad once stopped there for a day. Israel should kick the Arabs out of Jerusalem, ALL the Arabs. (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has quietly rejected an attempt by the United States to clamp down [...]
Rhod on Public Affairs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Israel backs settlement expansion Construction at the Gilo settlement is expected to add about 900 housing units [EPA] Israel has given the go ahead for the construction of 900 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem, rebuffing a reported US request that it block construction at the Gilo settlement, officials have said. Israeli officials had earlier on Tuesday declined to comment on a report in the...
Middle East Watch (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
DEBKAfile : "The understandings on broad strategic cooperation sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home, DEBKAfile's Washington sources report. Tuesday, Nov. 18, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly stated: “We find the Jerusalem planning committee's decision to move forward...
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