Shimon Peres

Gaza militant groups agree to stop firing rockets into Israel

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Deal appears to be attempt by Hamas to prevent another descent into conflict Hamas has won an agreement from other militant groups in Gaza to halt rocket fire into Israel for the first time in almost a year, a move that could signal progress on a deal to release a captured Israeli soldier. The agreement, announced late yesterday, appears to be an attempt by the Palestinian Islamist movement to prevent...

Mubarak to Peres: Israel must stop building settlements - Summary

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Cairo - Israeli President Shimon Peres met Sunday in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart Hosny Mubarak who said that the peace process in the region required the Jewish State to cease settlement construction in the West Bank. We need first to stop s...

Israeli president to Egypt for talks with Mubarak

France 24 (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Israeli President Shimon Peres was heading to Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak on the troubled Middle East peace talks, his spokeswoman said. "Mr Peres is due to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak one on one during the late morning in Cairo," Peres spokeswoman Ayelet Frish said. "He will return to Israel in the afternoon." The two leaders will...

Mahmoud Abbas in Brazil: The Rise of Jew Hatred in South America

Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | yesterday

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...

PNA rejects Israeli drafted peace plan

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) rejects a peace plan being drafted by Israeli President Shimon Peres, an official said on Friday. Yasser Abed Rabbo, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the plan is rejected because it doesn't include full freeze of settlement activities. "We will not look at any initiative, as long as it does not include a full stop of settlement in the...

Lula Says U.S. Shouldn’t Broker Middle East Talks | Bloomberg

Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | yesterday

“Brazil is seeking a broader role in the Middle East after hosting Israeli President Shimon Peres last week and Abbas today. Lula is scheduled to welcome Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Nov. 23 in Brasilia for talks built around trade with the wider objective of engaging the Persian country in political discussions.”

Abbas, Lula hold talks on Mideast

France24 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday received Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas here Thursday for the first in a series of discussions on forging peace in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Abbas' travels here come as Brazil steps up its peacemaker role in the Middle East. Brazil last week hosted Israeli President Shimon Peres for a four-day visit, and next week...

• Abbas launches South American tour in Brazil - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

Hamas: Terrorism to Eliminate Israel is a 'Principle'

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat , a Hamas spokesman said that the jihadist movement is loyal to "Palestinian principles" in its policy of terrorism against the Jews until Israel ceases to exist. Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed earlier this month that Hamas had agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian...

Growing "anti-Semitism"

War and Peace (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Peace-loving Israeli President Shimon Peres visited Buenos Aires and was greeted by hundreds of Argentinean protesters “shouting that he was a laureate of the “ Nobel Prize for murder ””.

Israel's Peres warns Iran of serious consequences on nuclear program

People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday warned Iran of possible serious consequences if it rejects a UN-backed draft deal over its nuclear program. Peres, who was on a visit to Argentina, said at a seminar that Iran's insistence on expanding its nuclear program has arosed strong displeasure in the West and also caused deep international concerns. Peres said that Iran's rejection of the draft agreement...

Should Palestine Declare Itself A State?

FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

By Max Fisher On November 16, 2009 10:15am Courtesy Of The Atlantic Wire The long and troubled history of start-and-stall diplomacy between Israel and Palestine hasn't shown much sign of improving. Some Americans even believe that, after decades of mediating, we should disengage from the peace process entirely. Negotiations between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...

Oil wealth clouds vision of Chavez, Ahmadinejad, says Peres

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Buenos Aires - Oil wealth has clouded the vision of leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said Israeli President Shimon Peres in comments published Wednesday by Argentine newspaper Critica. There ar...

Peres, Not Goldstone, Is The Small Man

FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent Last update - 08:15 15/11/2009 Courtesy Of Haaretz NewsPaper President Shimon Peres considers Richard Goldstone a "small man, devoid of any sense of justice, a technocrat with no real understanding of jurisprudence." Same to you, we used to say when we were kids. Indeed, it's amazing to see how aptly these harsh remarks describe Peres himself, a small...

Peace with Palestine within reach

People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Visiting Israeli President Shimon Peres declared Tuesday that peace between Israelis and Palestinians was within reach. "I know it is difficult to achieve (peace), but we are very near to achieve it with the Palestinians. I understand the impatience and the nervousness, but we must persevere in the dialogue," Peres said during a seminar organized by the Argentine Council for International...

Israel's Peres: Chavez, Ahmadinejad will fall

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Israel President Shimon Peres predicts the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long.