My cousin in Givataim sent this video for me to watch. I found it pretty moving. Just a warning, it has some graphic pictures depicting the results of violence.
Categories: Anti-Semitism, Arab Israelis, Arab World, Fatah/Palestinian Liberation Oragnization (PLO), Hamas, Islam, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Palestinians, Pallywood, Peace Process, Propaganda, Right of Return, Terrorism, Zionism |
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The recent escalation in rhetoric on both sides of the Israeli-Syrian border has, once again, raised the profile of the relationship between the two countries. Defence Minister Ehud Barak told a gathering of senior IDF officers last week that, in the absence of a peace deal, Israel could find itself at war with Syria. Syrian [...]
Categories: Arab World, Avigdor Lieberman, Ehud Barak, Golan Heights, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Peace Process, Syria, Turkey |
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This is a guest post by Mark L. Levinson. If you are interested in guest posting at The Israel Situation, please take a look at our guest posting guidelines. This is the final part in a series of posts about the Arial Conference, focusing on Israel, legal issues, and the media.
Public Conclusion and Private Extension
Closing [...]
Categories: Diplomacy, Judea and Samaria, Palestinians, Peace Process, Politics |
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The past week has contained a number of announcements which are significant to politics in the Middle East. While these events were all reported in the international press, they seem to have been downplayed for reasons that are not easy to explain. Perhaps the Copenhagen summit was stealing all the main headlines, or maybe the [...]
Categories: Hamas, Hezbollah, Peace Process, Syria |
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It seems that Benjamin Netanyahu is often smarter than people give him credit for. After giving the Palestinians, and the rest of the world, time to react to his new settlement construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, the Prime Minister has said that the freeze was a one time and temporary measure.
Categories: Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, Judea and Samaria, Palestinians, Peace Process |
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Israel is a dramatic country, but it’s not a Shakespearean country. In Israel, if you liquidate the leader, you don’t go on to eliminate all his henchmen and rule the country yourself like Macbeth or Richard the Third. So I’ve never understood why people — most recently Bill Clinton — speak as though the Rabin assassination had forced Israel to turn away from an impending peace.
Categories: Peace Process, United States of America |
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I wonder if Netanyahu is taking policy advice from this blog? It would seem so, as just a few days ago I discussed that there is not anyone worth talking to in the PA for a peace agreement, as the PA seems shaky with Abbas at best and Hamas would not follow the Fatah directive [...]
Categories: Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Peace Process, United States of America |
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in Washington, DC and had a meeting with President Barack Obama. Obama keeps pushing Israel’s leaders to re-boot on peace planning with the Palestinians, but it seems that things are on hold indefinitely.
Categories: Barack Obama, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority, Peace Process |
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US Secretary of States Hillary Clinton publicly endorsed Israeli efforts to bring back the peace discussions and said that the Palestinians are the ones preventing peace.
Categories: Africa, Arab World, Hillary Clinton, Palestinians, Peace Process, United States of America |
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This is a guest post by Elizabeth, a regular reader and commenter at The Israel Situation.
We live in a world divided by definitions; there are so many definitions that define each individual that one can get literally lost in the possibilities when attempting to give presence to a human being. What set me to thinking [...]
Categories: Human Rights, Peace Process |
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