Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
What the hell is this now? In brief, it’s a video featuring Israelis like former Haganah Member Avraham Yakin, Ha’aretz Publisher Amos Schocken, former IDF Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Meretz Party MK and my old intro to Poli-Sci professor Naomi Chazan as well as an assortment of Israelis [...]
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
The banner which was removed from buses. Reads: Putting a \'Meretz\' end to the \'harediztion\' of Jerusalem. Israel - The Egged bus cooperative has removed political advertisements on the sides of its buses sponsored by the far-left Meretz Party against the “haredization” of Jerusalem. The banner which was removed from buses. Reads: Putting a ‘Meretz’ end [...]
Israelated (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Swinging left to Meretz was a very BAD idea..Livni’s 1st political move was a classic mistake. Instead of immediately leaning right to secure goodwill within Kadima and without, where she lacks it most and where the country is also leaning most, she went left to the Meretz no man’s land of political oblivion.Of course the reasoning is [...]
Israelated (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Loss of Mofaz may signal serious blow on a number of levelsKadima was formed as a center party, but since Olmert’s takeover just after Kadima’s inception, the party has marched steadily left towards Labor & Meretz positions. Olmert’s intent to ram through concessions and talks with traditional enemies like Syria despite near zero public approval, and Livni’s [...]
treppenwitz (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
When Aryeh Eldad NU/NRP) a far right Knesset Member and Zehava Gal On (Meretz) a Knesset member from the far left, finally agree on something, I generally look out the window to see if pigs are flying. And this morning...
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Meeting in Cairo with former Meretz leader Yossi Beilin, Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman explained his country is trying to persuade Hamas leaders in Gaza that without releasing IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, there can be no semblance of normalization in Gaza. Suleiman added that he and others are working to speak with Hamas leaders in Gaza [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Basher announced on Monday that his country is not about to permit Israel to ignore the Annapolis understanding and he expects Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to implement the first part of the Road Map Agreement. Basher was meeting with visiting Meretz MK Yossi Beilin, who flew to Jordan. Jordan’s prime minister told [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
MK Zahava Gal-On of the left-wing Meretz Party caused a stir in Knesset on Tuesday in her plenum address expressing her adamant opposition to a bill intending to grant amnesty to many of the people arrested and facing criminal charges for their opposition to the 2005 expulsion of Jews from Gaza. In her remarks, she compared [...]
Ynet News (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Bill that would grant pardon to disengagement protestors passes first reading at Knesset; tempers flare as Meretz MK Zahava Gal-On compares Right's conduct to Nazis who exploited German democracy's weakness
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
The Knesset Education Committee on Monday passed the second reading of a bill intended to channel NIS 1.8 billion to the nation’s higher education over a five-year period. The bill will now be presented for its first reading in Knesset. Meretz MK Chaim Oron, who authored the bill, as well as the many supporters, are hopeful [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The Knesset appears to be expediting efforts towards permitting the legislators to declare a prime minister “incapacitated” by a simple majority vote of 61. The move seems to be a response to the foot-dragging by the prime minister, sponsored by MK (NRP) Zevulun Orlev and Yossi Beilin (Meretz). The preliminary reading is expected sometime this [...]
American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
by Jerry Gordon Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch sent me two ‘gems’ on how to resolve the Palestinian Refugee ‘problem’. In the first ‘gem’, there is a report that Yossi Beilin, a Member of the extreme leftist Meretz party in Israel’s Knesset, and former Justice Minister in the late assassinated Israeli PM Itzhak Rabin’s cabinet, [...]
The Last Amazon (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
I have never been a fan of Israeli politician Yossi Beilin. Usually his speeches make me cringe and aggravate me to no end but this report in the Jerusalem Post made me smile: Meretz MK Yossi Beilin on Thursday called on European countries to declare how many Palestinian refugees and their descendants they would be willing to absorb as part of any future peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians....
Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
From Arutz Sheva:The Tel Aviv District Court rejected a request by a group of radical leftists to renounce their Judaism in favor of being registered by the Interior Ministry as "Israelis." The request, filed by 21 Israeli citizens including Gush Shalom founder Uri Avnery and former Meretz MK Shulamit Aloni, asked the court to instruct the Interior Ministry to recognize their nationality as "
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
MK (Meretz) Avshalom Vilan told Israel TV on Wednesday that regardless of one’s political affiliation, we must all realize that the soldiers must be brought home, even when the cost is high as in today’s case. Vilan, a former combatant in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando force, explained “all the past prime ministers who were generals, [...]
