Aljazeera.com | At White House, Israel's Netanyahu pushes back against Obama diplomacy Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told Barack Obama on Monday that he would never compromise on Israel's security even as the U.S. president sought to reassure him on Iran nuclear diplomacy and pressure him on ... Obama, Netanyahu reiterate US-Israel alliance as deadline looms on peace deal Israel doubles West Bank outpost construction Israel must make tough choices, Obama warns PM |
The Electronic Intifada | Is a Settlement Boycott Best for Israel? New York Times Boycotting settlements puts teeth into that protest – teeth bared, appropriately, not at Israel but at pro-settlement policies. As demonstrated by the Israeli reaction to European Union policies targeting settlements, and by the SodaStream fracas ... Shhh. Don't Tell Anyone We're Bashing Israel at NYU Norwegian YMCA embraces boycott Israel policy Why I Oppose the 'Boycott Israel' Movement |
Haaretz | Equalizing the burden could make Israel into czarist Russia Haaretz The Bill to Equalize the Burden will further institutionalize the relationship of the state of Israel to the Haredi community as a bloc, rather than as individual citizens, both through its general framing, and through the extraordinary provision of a ... Israel's ultra-Orthodox protest draft bill Hundreds of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews stage mass protest in Israel Ultra-Orthodox Rally in Israel Against Draft Bill |
America Has a Plan. And, No, It Isn't One That Israel Would… Foreign Policy (blog) What's more, if the option is taken off the table, Americans support the creation of a single democratic state -- in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories -- in which Jews and Arabs are granted equal rights. The GfK survey consisted of 1 ... Op-Ed: American Public Supports Israel by Overwhelming Margins Israel Takes Cue From Apartheid 'Divide-and-Rule' Playbook Anti-Israel Speakers and Jewish Self-Hatred |
Haaretz | 'Hezbollah denies claims Israel attacked arms shipment from Syria' Jerusalem Post The Hezbollah source added that Israel is treating wounded oppositionists in its field hospital on the Golan Heights because it doesn't want al-Qaida operatives and Islamist extremists near its border. "So Israel is forced , from its standpoint, to ... Israel warns Lebanon to curb Hezbollah reprisals for air strike Israel faces military dilemma as Hezbollah amasses weapons Lebanon's New Government Threatening Israel? |
Meet the first black woman crowned as Miss Israel New York Daily News “In Israel, I don't eat hummus,” she explained, shriveling up her beauty pageant nose after we met at Hummus Place in the East Village, which is popular with Israelis. “Now I come to New York and I'm supposed to eat hummus? It's not tasty for me. I don ... |
SlashGear | Israel's Commercial Jets Will Soon Be Firing Lasers Wired Israel's Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday that SkyShield, developed by Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems, had successfully completed testing and is certified for commercial use to combat the threat of man-portable surface-to-air missile ... Israel to use C-MUSIC aircraft lasers to combat MANPADS |
'US pressuring Israel to stop killing Iran nuclear scientists' Jerusalem Post The United States is reportedly pressuring Israel to stop assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, a number of whom have been mysteriously killed in a campaign thought to be carried out by Mossad. According to CBS News, Obama administration officials ... |
Israel Doubled West Bank Settlement Construction in 2013 TIME Hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to meet President Barack Obama on Monday, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics revealed that Israel began construction on twice as many homes in the West Bank in 2013 than in the previous ... |
BBC News | Obama warns Israel's Netanyahu over peace talks failure BBC News They include the borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state; the status of Jerusalem; Israel's insistence that it be recognised as a Jewish state; the Palestinians' demand that their refugees be allowed to return to their former homes in ... |