Washington Post | At White House, Israel's Netanyahu pushes back against Obama diplomacy Reuters The Israeli prime minister used their brief joint appearance to put the onus on the Palestinians to advance prospects for peace and also to vow to hold the line on what he sees as Israel's security imperative. HISTORY LESSON. In his remarks, Netanyahu ... The President's Prophetic Threats to Israel Netanyahu and Obama clash on prospects for peace with Palestinians Obama presses Israel's Netanyahu on peace talks with Palestinians |
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 ... |
Haaretz | Israel's ultra-Orthodox protest draft bill Aljazeera.com Israeli police closed the main highway into Jerusalem and the city's central roads ahead of a mass rally by ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting government plans to draft them into the army. Ultra-Orthodox Jews from across the country took to the streets on ... Equalizing the burden could make Israel into czarist Russia Ultra-Orthodox Jews stage mass protest against Israeli draft law Hundreds of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews stage mass protest in Israel |
Aljazeera.com | Israel doubles West Bank outpost construction Aljazeera.com The number of Israeli settlements being started in the West Bank more than doubled during 2013, the Israel central bureau of statistics has said. The bureau said work began on 2,534 new housing units in the settlements in 2013, compared to 1,133 in 2012. |
Al-Arabiya | Israel launches deadly air strike on Gaza Strip Al-Arabiya The air strike was "carried out in order to eliminate an imminent attack targeting civilian communities of southern Israel", a military spokesman said, Reuters reported. Gaza is run by the Islamist group Hamas, which is sworn to Israel's destruction ... Israeli aircraft strikes Palestinians preparing rocket launch Egyptian court bans Hamas Egypt turns its tentacles on Hamas |
Israel Today | University Teaches Student How to Boycott Israel Israel Today Incitement against Israel on American campuses is reaching new heights. This month, the pro-Palestinian group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) invited students from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to attend a new course where they ... Boycott is anti-Semitic, says Israel NYU Holds Secret Anti-Israel Conference Norwegian YMCA embraces boycott Israel policy |
Why the United Nations' policies on Israel matter now Jerusalem Post When asked to name the greatest threat to Israel's international legitimacy today, most casual observers will instantly refer to BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) or other related efforts to commercially boycott the Jewish state. Only much further ... |
Boston Globe | Doctors group defects from rival, rejoins Beth Israel Boston Globe The bruising competition among the state's large hospital systems took an unusual turn Monday when a large doctors group in Newburyport defected back to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center just two years after jumping to rival Steward Health Care ... Doctors' return to BIDMC highlight turmoil |
Netanyahu at AIPAC: Palestinians must join Israel, US on the right side of the ... Jerusalem Post The prime minister said that the combination of Israeli innovation and Gulf entrepreneurship would "catapult the entire region forward." He stated that together, Israel and its neighbors could solve the region's water and energy problems. Netanyahu ... |
Obama, Netanyahu reiterate US-Israel alliance as deadline looms on peace deal Fox News President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded jabs Monday as the leaders met in Washington, both aware that the window for a negotiated peace deal was closing. Netanyahu bluntly told Obama that Israelis expected their leader ... |