Min. Lapid NYT interview no freeze united Jerusalem

IMRA - Saturday 25th May, 2013

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: On the one hand, Minister Yair Lapid's remarks against a settlement freeze and the division of Jerusalem should serve to dash hopes among those who saw him as the point man for pushing through such policies. On the other hand, Mr. Lapid takes the profoundly dangerous position supporting the immediate creation of an interim Palestinian state. If the idea is to ...

Hard choices needed in Israel

iafrica.com - Saturday 25th May, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference in Tel Aviv on May 24, 2013. Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take "hard decisions" to revive the Middle East peace process, which has stalled for almost three ...

17 Palestinians transferred to Nauru

The Courier Mail - Saturday 25th May, 2013

A GROUP of 17 Palestinian men seeking asylum have been transferred to a detention centre on Nauru. Department of Immigration said the group arrived at midday (AEST) on Saturday and were accompanied by detention centre staff, interpreters, doctors and Australian Federal Police officers. They are the seventeenth transfer to Nauru but the first group of Palestinian nationals. The federal government ...

Right things done in Kubuqi desert Israeli ambassador

People's Daily - Saturday 25th May, 2013

By Fang YangAmos Nadai, ambassador of Israel to China, spoke highly of the desertification control efforts in the Kubuqi desert of China during an exclusive interview with Xinhuanet here Saturday. "It's a huge area, which is more than half of my country," Nadai said, "I see a lot of planting and it's very beautiful." Nadai was here for the 2011 Kubuqi International ...

PMW Bulletin UNRWA rejects PMW report exposing map erasing Israel

IMRA - Saturday 25th May, 2013

PMW Bulletin May 17, 2013 False claim by UNRWA in response to PMW report: Map without Israel that official posed with does not represent today but "pre-1948" Palestine UNRWA's name still appears in logo of youth center that currently glorifies suicide bomber on its Facebook page Israeli representative to the UN cites PMW's UNRWA story in complaint to UN ...

Anti-Israel activists crash London UEFA event

Jerusalem Post - Saturday 25th May, 2013

UEFA: Israel to host tourney despite PA pressure The UEFA dinner was attended by prominent figures including David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, who were reportedly stunned by the incident. Earlier in the day, pro-Palestinian activists from a group called "Red Card Israeli Racism" protested outside a UEFA Congress meeting at a London hotel, according to the report. Friday's ...

Friends of Palestine Presents Dr. El Farra from Gaza

Green Left Online - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Israel's Operation Cast Lead was described by a UN fact finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population." The 2008-09 assault claimed the lives of 1400 Palestinians and thrust the crisis in Gaza into the centre of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict. The crippling siege continues to block ...

Three Israeli military aircraft violate Lebanese airspace and UN resolution

albawaba - Saturday 25th May, 2013

UN Security Council resolution . Two Israeli fighter jets crossed into Lebanon's airspace over the southern border village of Kfar Kila, located 96 kilometers (59 miles) south of Beirut, at 9:45 a.m. local time (0645 GMT) on Friday, according to a statement issued by the Lebanese military. The warplanes flew over several areas in Lebanon before leaving the country's airspace at 12:15 ...

Kerry calls for a revival of Israel-Palestine peace talks upon Mideast visit

albawaba - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Kerry said before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem and then traveling to Ramallah in the West Bank to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides."The next 18 to 24 months are essential to agreeing on key steps forward in the peace process and the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel", Kerry said, adding that ...

Kerry urges Israel to promote peace talks not settlements

China Daily - Friday 24th May, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. Explaining part of the strategy of his now 2-month-old peace initiative, Kerry said ...

Al-Assad Syria will slash roots of Israeli adventurism

Pravda - Friday 24th May, 2013

Al-Assad: Syria will slash roots of Israeli adventurism Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has emphasized on Tuesday that Damascus is able to confront the Israeli regime's adventurism, alluding to the recent Israeli aggression against the Arab country. The Syrian president stressed that the Israeli offensive is evidence of interference by Tel Aviv and its Western and regional allies in the ...

Google eyes Israeli mapping start-up Waze

C News - Friday 24th May, 2013

Waze, an Israeli mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Nir ...

Why arent Israeli F-16s over Beirut headline news

Electronic Intifada - Friday 24th May, 2013

Beirut triggering unpleasant recollections: the distant roar of Israeli fighter jets as one lies in bed at night. This noise brings with it images and memories from the last war Israel waged ...

Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests

MSNBC - Friday 24th May, 2013

Ahmed Jawabreh, 14, was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank refugee camp where he lives and wasn't released for another 18 days. His was only one of a recent wave of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities, human rights groups ...

Sexuality and gender taboos challenged by Haifa project

Electronic Intifada - Friday 24th May, 2013

Singing Sexuality ) JERUSALEM (IPS) - Public discussions about sexuality and gender diversity are difficult to start in many places. But a new multimedia project that is garnering buzz in Palestine aims to reverse this trend and open up dialogue within Palestinian society around these historically taboo issues. "We want to start an honest conversation that can also raise … ...

Israeli-Palestinian problem at base troubles in Middle East says Jerusalem Patriarch

Catholic Culture - Friday 24th May, 2013

"There is no doubt that the Palestinian problem is the focus of all conflict in the Middle East for the last one hundred years. This is the truth that we cannot circumvent," said Latin-rite Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem. Speaking at a conference in Beirut on Christians in the Middle East, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Patriarch said that the Israeli-Palestinian ...

Soldier shortage Israel’s Army ‘half as big as it was 30 years ago’

World Tribune - Friday 24th May, 2013

Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s military has reported a manpower shortage. Officials said the military, particularly the Army, was facing a growing gap in manpower requirements. They attributed the gap to a decreasing pool of conscripts as well as cuts in the defense ...

Israel in reassessment thinks Syria’s Bashar Assad will last awhile

McClatchy - Friday 24th May, 2013

JERUSALEM - Israel has reversed its assessment about the staying power of Syrian President Bashar Assad and now thinks he’ll remain in control of at least part of his country for some time to come – a conclusion that makes it likely, a growing number of officials think, that an escalation of violence between the two countries may be inevitable. Israeli defense officials said that ...

This time they destroyed everything Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions

Electronic Intifada - Friday 24th May, 2013

Bir al-Saba (Beersheva). Residents reported seeing approximately thirty flatbed trucks haul away most of the rubble, while Israeli police set up a dozen roadblocks in both directions along the main road, preventing residents from trying to stop the bulldozers. Only a few destroyed buildings were left behind and broken toys, notebooks and other personal effects remained scattered across the ...

Amnesty International says Israel Hamas both guilty of war crimes

Middle East Times - Friday 24th May, 2013

Gaza last year. The human rights group, which is based in London, released a report Thursday that alleged the Israeli air force carried out bomb and missile strikes on residential areas in Gaza, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported. Those strikes were "disproportionate and caused heavy civilian casualties," Amnesty International said. The Israeli navy also carried out ...

Syria says Israeli vehicle entered its territory and was targeted heading to a rebel village

Canada.com - Friday 24th May, 2013

Syria says it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday, Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said his country exercised its right to self-defence and would respond immediately to any other violation of ...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are at crossroads to end the years-long conflict said US Secretary of State Kerry

Turkish Press - Friday 24th May, 2013

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are at crossroads to end the years-long conflict, said US Secretary of State Kerry JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Friday that it was up to Palestinian and Israeli leaders to revive stalled peace talks.Speaking at a press conference prior to his departure for the US at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Kerry described his Israel talks as ...