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  • Palestinians, Israeli Soldiers Clash in West Bank
    Palestinians have clashed with Israeli troops during rallies across the West Bank in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners and against Israel’s security barrier. Mohammed Samhan of the Red Crescent says dozens of protesters were treated for injuries caused by rubber bullets and tear gas inhalation on Friday. Israel’s military says hundreds of Palestinians...
    March 1, 2013 22:14
  • Jailed spy’s backers plan protests before Obama visit
    Israeli supporters of Jonathan Pollard, the American jailed as an Israeli spy, plan protests calling for his release ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit next month an organiser said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Jerusalem city council moved to award a medal to Pollard, who is serving a life sentence. “We shall be staging protest vigils against Pollard’s...
    February 28, 2013 22:39
  • Israel goes to polls, set to re-elect Netanyahu
    Israelis voted on Tuesday in an election that is expected to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win a third term in office, pushing the Jewish state further to the right, away from peace with the Palestinians and towards a showdown with Iran. However, Netanyahu’s own Likud party, running alongside the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu group, looks set to have...
    January 22, 2013 16:30
  • Netanyahu vows no razing of settlements if elected
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Friday that there would be no dismantlement of any Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins a general election next week. Asked in an interview with the Maariv newspaper: “Can you promise that during the next four years, no settlement will be dismantled?” Netanyahu answered: “Yes.” “The...
    January 18, 2013 22:55
  • One in 4 Israelis undecided as election looms: poll
    With just 11 left before voting day, one in four Israelis are still unsure about who to back in the January 22 general elections for the country’s 19th Knesset, a survey showed on Friday. According the results of a poll in the Maariv newspaper, only two thirds of respondents — 67 percent — knew how they were going to vote, while 25 percent said they were...
    January 11, 2013 20:42
  • Right-wing millionaire is Israel campaign’s surprise star
    A right-wing millionaire who says a Palestinian state would be suicide for Israel has emerged as the surprise success story of the country’s election campaign. So much so that Naftali Bennett, a former aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is said to have fallen out with his old boss, is now expected to face the Israeli leader across the cabinet table after...
    January 9, 2013 20:32
  • Netanyahu rivals fail to form election pact in Israel
    Three Israeli centrist and left-leaning parties have failed in an initial attempt to form a united bloc that might have cut into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opinion poll lead before the January 22 election. “We didn’t reach any agreement, unfortunately,” centrist Hatenuah party chief Tzipi Livni told Israel Radio on Monday after she took...
    January 7, 2013 18:43
  • Netanyahu set to win Israel election but rightists gain
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is set to win a parliamentaryelection on January 22 although the popularity of a far-right party opposed to Palestinian statehood is growing, polls showed on Friday. Two out of three surveys showed the right-wing Likud losing voters to political newcomer Naftali Bennett’s religious party Bayit Yehudi (Jewish...
    December 28, 2012 22:14
  • Israel okays initial stages of new W. Bank city
    Israel has approved plans for the construction of more than 500 homes in the southern West Bank in the first step towards creating a new settlement city, a local settler council said Thursday. “After years, we are happy to announce that the government of Israel has decided to build a city in Gush Etzion,” David Perel, head of the Gush Eztion regional council,...
    December 20, 2012 20:01
  • Israel Probes Post on Embassy Facebook Page
    A spokesman says Israel’s Foreign Ministry is investigating an anti-Palestinian post on the Facebook page of its embassy in Ireland. The inflammatory post shows an illustration of Jesus and Mary, next to a message the unidentified writer calls “A thought for Christmas.” The message posted Monday read, “If Jesus and mother Mary were alive today,...
    December 18, 2012 18:46
  • Decision due on whether to indict Israel FM
    Israel’s attorney general is to decide later Thursday whether to press corruption charges against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a decision that could force his resignation and affect a looming general election. On November 8, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein promised a decision “within a month” on whether to press charges against Lieberman in...
    December 13, 2012 22:21
  • Israel right strong, opposition divided before vote: poll
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing bloc remains far ahead of its rivals ahead of January 22 snap elections, with the opposition increasingly divided, a poll said on Monday. The joint list of Netanyahu’s Likud party and the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu faction of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is expected to win 39 seats, according...
    December 10, 2012 18:48
  • Israel PM heads to Berlin as settlement row grows
     – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due in Berlin on Wednesday for talks likely to focus on the growing crisis over settlement plans that could torpedo the viability of a Palestinian state. Ahead of his departure on a trip that will take him briefly to Prague and then on to Berlin, Netanyahu brushed off the diplomatic pressure. He insisted that Israel’s...
    December 5, 2012 14:15
  • UN tells Israel to let in nuclear inspectors
    The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection. Israel refuses to confirm or deny possessing nuclear bombs though it is widely believed to have them. It has refused to join the non-proliferation treaty along with three nuclear weapon states: India, Pakistan and North Korea. Resolutions adopted...
    December 5, 2012 12:33
  • Ilham Aliyev condemns Israel and expresses Azerbaijan’s support for Turkey
    “We condemn Israel’s deadly attack on the Turkish ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip and express our support for Turkey,” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the 3rd summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Ciragan Palace, APA reports quoting Cihan news agency. He also offered his condolences to the Turkish government...
    June 8, 2010 16:48
  • The people of Israel and the state of Israel are different sides
    The leader of the Jews’ religious community Gershon Mare Burshtane is answering to the questions of “Ankakh”. -How can you estimate the process of the Armenian-Turkish relationship? -Every person or state can’t exist or develop out of the general system. Despite of wish there are some neighbours, negotiations and one must adapt them. This process can be accepted...
    May 10, 2010 10:17