May 24, 2011 16 Comments ›› Angelia
Politico As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a warm welcome from a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) skipped out on the speech, sitting quietly at his Senate desk shuffling through papers and newspapers. Earlier this year, Paul proposed eliminating all U.S. aid to Israel, but his office and other Republican ...
Continue ReadingMay 22, 2011 19 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Claiming his remarks earlier this week on borders for Israel and a future Palestinian state had been misrepresented, President Obama said Sunday that "1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps" means the two sides will "negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967." In remarks Sunday to the ...
Continue ReadingMay 22, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: A growing number of House lawmakers are pushing back against President Obama's recent call to base Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on pre-1967 borders. Echoing the concerns of Israeli leaders, the critics maintain that reverting to those boundaries – which existed prior to the Six Day War of 1967 – would endanger Israel and empower its enemies. ...
Continue ReadingMay 21, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
"The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state." - What Obama actually said.
Continue ReadingMay 20, 2011 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Jerusalem Post: Even though the President's speech was riddled with seemingly pro-Israel notions, it marked a radical departure from American policy regarding the conflict until now. Israeli society has the proclivity to latch on to a new national fear every month, while quickly forgetting the old one: The February fear of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover was replaced ...
Continue ReadingMay 20, 2011 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Some Jewish Democrats in Congress are carefully distancing themselves from President Barack Obama’s Thursday Middle East speech, criticizing his call for a two-state solution that would shrink Israel back to borders based on those it had before the “Six Day War” in 1967. Many others have kept their powder dry, suggesting that they neither want to ...
Continue ReadingMay 20, 2011 18 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: WASHINGTON — As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel heads to the White House on Friday for the seventh meeting since President Obama took office, the two men are facing a turning point in a relationship that has never been warm. By all accounts, they do not trust each other. President Obama has ...
Continue ReadingMay 19, 2011 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) – Forcefully stepping into an explosive Middle East debate, President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation based on "permanent occupation." Obama's urging that a Palestinian state be based on 1967 ...
Continue ReadingMay 17, 2011 9 Comments ›› Angelia
Virtual Jerusalem "Israel must return to its 1967 borders," US President Barack Obama is expected to declare on Thursday in his Middle East policy speech, Israeli daily newspaper "Yediot Ahronot" reports this morning. Obama will propose dividing Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinian Authority but will rule out supporting any unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence. From ...
Continue ReadingMay 15, 2011 No Comments ›› Angelia
Israel National News Two Jewish NGOs recently discovered that they have been barred from participating in a United Nations conference. It began when the Office of Israeli Constitutional Law (OFICL), an Israeli legal action organization, received notice from the UN that their registration for this year’s Conference of the United Nations Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) ...
Continue ReadingMay 15, 2011 16 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand. ...
Continue ReadingMay 12, 2011 4 Comments ›› Angelia
IsraelNationalNews.com Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Zahar on Wednesday told the Maan news agency Hamas would never recognize Israel. Saying Hamas would accept a PA state based on the "1967 borders," Zahar made it clear a peace accord would only serve as a prelude to Israel's destruction. Zahar, who has served as Hamas' foreign minister in Gaza since 2006, said ...
Continue ReadingMay 6, 2011 3 Comments ›› Angelia
Bloomberg.com The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for the country’s next parliament to review the Camp David peace accord with Israel. “What is left,” Mohammed Badie said, “except for us to loudly demand to stop the issue of normalization” and “to review the Camp David accord and for it to be reviewed by a freely elected ...
Continue ReadingMay 1, 2011 2 Comments ›› Angelia
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- "Israel is the historical commemoration to the victims of the Holocaust," President Shimon Peres said at a Yad Vashem ceremony marking Yom Hashoah. Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, began Sunday night in Israel with the national ceremony, where survivors lit six torches representing the 6 million Jews killed in ...
Continue ReadingMay 1, 2011 1 Comment ›› Angelia
Jerusalem Post Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal arrived in Cairo on Sunday night for talks with Egyptian officials on the unity deal between Hamas and Fatah. On the eve of the visit, Hamas reiterated its refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist. Mashaal and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are expected to sign the Egyptian-sponsored reconciliation agreement in Cairo ...
Continue ReadingApr 21, 2011 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
New York Times: WASHINGTON — A Republican invitation for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress next month is highlighting the tensions between President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu and has kicked off a bizarre diplomatic race over who will be the first to lay out a new proposal to reopen the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. ...
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