Ma’an Monday 12/12/2011, TEL AVIV,Israel– Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed support for a bill to ban mosques from using loudspeakers for the Islamic call to prayer. “There’s no need to be more liberal thanEurope,” Netanyahu said during a Likud ministers meeting, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The ban was [...]
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Sarkozy tries to appease Netanyahu
After being caught calling Netanyahu a ‘liar’ French president sends particularly friendly letter to Israeli PM offering close cooperation on issue of Iran sanctions Itamar Eichner Ynetnews Published: 11.13.11, Days after being caught calling Benjamin Netanyahu a “liar” in a private conversation with US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is [...]
Haaretz poll: 80% of Israelis believe Iran strike will lead to war with Hamas, Hezbollah
According to a Haaretz-Dialog poll, 59% of respondents say Iran attack would likely cause a regional war, while 20% believe that the probability of war is unlikely or entirely improbable. By Ofir Bar-Zohar Haaretz Thu, November 03, 2011 A large majority of Israeli citizens believe that a military operation inIranwill lead to a [...]
Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs. Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as “facts”. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 27 [...]
Phyllis Bennis: The Prisoner Swap
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, Understanding the U.S.-Iran Crisis: A Primer, Ending the Iraq War: A Primer, and most recently Ending the Us War in Afghanistan: A Primer. If you want to receive her talking points and articles on a [...]
Ali Abunimah : Why the UN must abolish the ‘Quartet’
Ali Abunimah is author of One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and is a contributor to The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict. He is a co-founder of the online publication The Electronic Intifada and a policy adviser with Al-Shabaka. It was formed to [...]
Mosque in northern Israel in ‘price tag’ arson attack
BBC 3 October 2011 Last updated at 10:52 GMT A mosque in northernIsraelhas been torched and sprayed with graffiti, in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists. Hundreds of residents from thevillageofTuba-Zangariyamarched in protest against the attack, and there were reports of clashes with the police. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he [...]
Why Fewer Young American Jews Share Their Parents’ View of Israel
By Dana Goldstein Dana Goldstein is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Nation Institute. Time Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 “I’m trembling,” my mother says when I tell her I’m working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the Palestinians’ bid for statehood [...]
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