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The Vatican said on Tuesday that an economic agreement it is negotiating with Israel will not mean the de facto recognition of Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem.
The Vatican was responding to reports in Palestinian media that the deal, which involves tax status and other financial issues concerning Church properties in the Holy Land, would result in a recognition of Israel's control of East Jerusalem.
The Israeli army on Wednesday told Xinhua it was probing a recent clash between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in northern West Bank, in which an Israeli officer fired his rifle towards Palestinian rock-throwers without authorization.
Hundreds of Palestinian workers demonstrated in front of an Israeli crossing point in the West Bank Wednesday, demanding Israeli forces to treat them better when they pass through.
The workers suspended the movement through al-Jalama crossing between Jenin City and Israel for two hours, an official from the Palestinian Workers Union said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision-making was badly flawed as he oversaw a deadly Israeli naval raid on a Gaza-bound ship two years ago, according to a government report released Wednesday.
The harsh findings were an embarrassing assessment of Netanyahu’s handling of a military operation that sent Israel’s relations with once-close ally Turkey plummeting and drew widespread international condemnation.
Israeli forces on Tuesday handed a southern West Bank village demolition orders for each of its 50 buildings, a week after Israeli authorities agreed to halt all construction in the area in response to a petition filed by a settler group.
Susiya village, in the south Hebron hills, has three days to appeal the decision before their village is demolished, resident Nasser Nawaja told Ma'an.
The community's lawyer Quamar Mishirqi said she will file an objection to Israel's High Court.
FIFA on Tuesday urgently called on the Israeli Football Association to raise the plight of detained hunger-striking soccer player Mahmoud al-Sarsak with Israeli authorities.
Al-Sarsak has been on hunger strike for 86 days to demand his release. He has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since July 2009.
FIFA urged IFA to draw attention to al-Sarsak's situation "with the aim of ensuring the physical integrity of the concerned players as well as their right for due process," a report on its website said.
A Fatah official warned on Tuesday that the Israeli government is working for the interests of settlers, leaving the Palestinian Authority in an impasse that pushes UN membership to the fore again.
Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud al-Aloul told Ma'an that the cabinet led by Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu did not show any interest in negotiations, but is dominated by pushing settlement activities.
Israel is working to block a bid by the Palestinian Authority to register the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem under the country of Palestine, when the World Heritage Committee meets in Russia from June 24 to July 6.
Earlier this month the committee announced that the church, as well as the nearby pilgrimage route, is among 36 sites which it plans to debate during that meeting. The debate marks the first time that the committee has considered registering a World Heritage site under Palestine.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans are joining forces for the first time in more than a decade in an effort to secure Jonathan Pollard's release.
A bipartisan letter is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives soliciting signatures on a letter to President Obama asking him to commute Pollard's sentence to time served. The "Dear Colleague" letter is signed by veteran House members Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.).
A humanitarian-aid delegation led by Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood is on a weeklong visit to the Gaza Strip, as Palestinians prepared to mark tomorrow's fifth anniversary of Hamas's conquest of the territory.
Some 10 tonnes of medical aid arrived in Gaza on Sunday with the delegation of 100 activists from 17 Arab countries, the unofficial Palestinian news agency Maan reported on Monday.
More used to enduring eviction orders than enforcing them, Palestinians are relishing the Israeli government's discomfort as it struggles to evacuate five settler buildings in the occupied West Bank.
Israel's supreme court upheld a petition by a group of Palestinian landowners last month, mandating a demolition order by July 1 against the apartment blocs that sit on Ulpana Hill above the Palestinian village of Dura al-Qara.
The Obama administration needs to recommit to helping solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or risk the ire of a whole generation of Arab youth demanding democratic change in the region, Jordan's foreign minister cautioned during a visit to Washington Tuesday.
“You don't want to get to the U.S. election without something substantial in motion,” Nasser Judeh said in remarks at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Judeh addressed the think tank after meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.
I do not need anyone to teach me about the Palestinian Nakba. It is the defining moment of my existence. During the 1948 war, my family had fled our home in Talpiot in southeast Jerusalem and taken shelter in a monastery. We quickly gathered some possessions and climbed down and up the mountain to Bethany, and then to Jericho. We eventually resettled as refugees in East Jerusalem.Because I was a graduating medical student at the American University of Beirut during the war of 1967, I became a double-refugee.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday in an interview with Xinhua that the Palestinian bid for the United Nations' full recognition of an independent Palestinian state is "decisive" despite threats and warnings from the United States.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a world-renowned expert on terror, needs experts to understand that the burning of a major mosque by Jews will spark a larger conflagration? As Haaretz reported on Sunday, prominent Mideast experts met with the prime minister to administer this warning, along with a warning that building 850 new housing units in the West Bank, as a "patriotic" response to the evacuation of Beit El's Ulpana neighborhood, will indirectly lead to the outbreak of a third intifada.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the French President Francois Hollande that if Israel releases weapons for his security forces and releases Palestinian prisoners he would be willing to meet in public with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. This statement is very peculiar.
Both the demands and the promised outcome require a bit of analysis and inquiry.
What price the freedom to put on plays? The odd bad review in the Daily Telegraph (if you're me)? Or protesters at Shakespeare's Globe (if you're performing in Habima theatre's Israeli version of The Merchant of Venice)?
If you say that the peace process, like the Wicked Witch, is not merely dead, but really most sincerely dead, no one will argue with you. Israel and the Palestinian Authority have not had a real negotiating session since September 2010, when so-called “talks” collapsed following a so-called settlement “freeze.” The last sign of life in the peace process was even earlier, in September 2008, when Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas came this close to a deal.
On Monday, Israeli police began rounding up illegal African immigrants as the first step in a campaign of mass arrests and deportations around the country. Earlier this year, the Knesset passed an “anti-infiltration” bill, which allows police to detain illegal immigrants for years without a trial and punishes Israelis who employ, house, or transport illegal immigrants.
For three decades, Norman Finkelstein has been the American Jewish community’s problem-child—denounced as a hysteric, a marginal ideologue, and a self-hating Jew. Selfless and vain, highly emotional—sometimes hysterical—in tone yet relentlessly logical in his arguments, he is now an academic with a doctorate from Princeton whose attacks on “the Holocaust Industry” and public cheerleading for Hezbollah have rendered him so toxic that he can’t obtain even the lowliest adjunct teaching position at any community college in America.
Links:
[1] http://www.americantaskforce.org/print/26045
[2] http://www.americantaskforce.org/printmail/26045
[3] http://www.americantaskforce.org/printpdf/26045
[4] http://www.americantaskforce.org/rss/wpr
[5] https://www.americantaskforce.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-vatican-israel-idUSBRE85B0XF20120612
[7] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-06/13/c_131650775.htm
[8] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-06/13/c_131650794.htm
[9] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-government-report-criticizes-netanyahu-decision-making-in-naval-raid-on-gaza-bound-ship/2012/06/13/gJQADF6QZV_story.html
[10] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=494781
[11] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=494818
[12] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=494884
[13] http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273666
[14] http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/06/12/3097971/peres-says-hell-raise-pollard-issue-with-obama
[15] http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/jordans-muslim-brotherhood-on-aid-visit-to-gaza-strip
[16] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-palestinians-israel-settlements-idUSBRE85B0TF20120612
[17] http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/232301-jordan-presses-us-to-refocus-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict-before-november-election
[18] http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2012/Jun-13/176636-to-honor-a-tragic-history-we-must-work-for-peace.ashx#axzz1xa14AR43
[19] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-06/12/c_131648309.htm
[20] http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-warnings-we-should-be-hearing-1.436061
[21] http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=273641
[22] http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/jun/12/stand-up-for-west-banks-freedom-theatre
[23] http://forward.com/articles/157468/my-way-or-the-highway/
[24] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/12/the-case-for-deportation.html
[25] http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/102054/qa-norman-finkelstein?print=1
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