Daily Beast | Israel Skips UN Review on Rights, a New Move New York Times Representatives from Israel did not appear at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday for a report by the council as part of what is known as the Universal Periodic Review process, in which all 193 member states had ... Israel boycotts its UN human rights review Israel Skips Its UN Human Rights Review Israel Unilaterally Withdraws From U.N. Rights Review |
Wall Street Journal | Why Palestine Should Take Israel to Court in the Hague New York Times LAST week, the Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, declared that if Israel persisted in its plans to build settlements in the currently vacant area known as E-1, which lies between Palestinian East Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale ... Israel's New Islamist Neighborhood Obama's Defense Secretary Nominee Said Israel Keeps 'Palestinians Caged Up ... Israel approves transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority |
Telegraph.co.uk | Israel Rebukes Argentina for Deal With Iran to Investigate '94 Attack New York Times JERUSALEM — Israel strongly criticized Argentina on Tuesday, summoning its ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem to explain Argentina's agreement with Iran to establish a joint commission to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community ... Israel summons Argentina over 1994 bomb commission Israel angered over deal on joint Argentina-Iran probe of 1994 Jewish center ... Israel summons Argentina's envoy over deal with Iran |
Wall Street Journal | Israel's Central Bank Chief to Resign Wall Street Journal JERUSALEM—Israel's central bank governor, Stanley Fischer, whom many observers credit with guiding the country relatively unscathed through the global financial crisis, said Tuesday he will step down effective June 30. Enlarge Image. image. Close ... Fischer Growth Focus Helped Make Israel World Beater for Returns Bank of Israel chief Stanley Fischer to step down in June News Summary: Israel central bank chief to leave |
Bloomberg | Bank of Israel Announces Stanley Fischer to Step Down Bloomberg Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer, credited by many economists for steering Israel through the global financial crisis, said he will step down in the middle of his second term. Bonds, stocks and the shekel fell. Fischer, 69, told Prime Minister ... |
The Guardian | Israel president demands crackdown on racism in football The Guardian Peres wrote to the Israel Football Association on Tuesday: "Racism has struck the Jewish people harder than any other nation in the world … the entire country is shocked by this phenomenon and will never agree to come to terms with it." He called for ... Arab Fans Insult Jews, Israel as Soccer Game Ends 'Peacefully' I won't attend Beitar games Soccer racism / Don't let the terrorists win |
The Guardian | The US-born soldier fighting for Israel: 'Women should have the privilege' The Guardian When she was a child growing up in Minnesota, Arielle Werner dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. Now the 21-year-old spends her days and nights patrolling the harsh desert landscape through which the Israeli-Egyptian border runs, wielding a gun, ... Israel Claims Foiling Infiltration Attempt |
New York Times | Israel worrying about fate of Syria's conventional arsenal Reuters TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Syria's advanced conventional weapons would represent as much of a threat to Israel as its chemical arms should they fall into the hands of Syrian rebel forces or Hezbollah guerrillas, Israeli sources said on Tuesday. Such concerns ... Israel's Prime Minister Has Several Fronts to Worry About Analysis: Israel on high alert over Syrian WMDs Israel Girds for Attacks as Syria Falls Apart |
What was Behind that British anti-Israel Cartoon? Daily Beast Another day, another anti-Israel provocation, you might think... but sadly, among Scarfe's best-known work are the caricatures that appear in the introductions to Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. It'll be hard to see them quite the same way again. |
Movieline | Dror Moreh, 'Gatekeepers' Director: Jewish Population In America Cherishes ... Huffington Post "There is something that I felt while I am here in America, that most of the majority of the Jewish population here are cherishing Israel," Moreh told HuffPost Live host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, adding that American Jews look to Israel as a post-Holocaust ... 'Gatekeepers' Director: Jews Like Israel Too Much Oscar-Nominated 'Gatekeepers' Director Warns American Jews Cherish Israel ... Anti-Israel documentary made in Israel, NY Times eats it up |