Tag: Israel Settlements
US Implicitly Backs Peace Now Petition to Destroy Outpost
The US considers a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria an international issue, so much so that a US official attending a hearing on an anti-outpost Peace Now petition.
Kerry Hosts Livni, to Return to Israel to Push Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with visiting Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni this week and told reporters he will return to Israel...
The Trick Up Obama’s Sleeve Is an ‘Unannounced’ Freeze
Skeptics who did not believe that Obama would not come with a game plan to force Israel back into talks on PA terms may be right. The NY Times reports that Abbas will accept an “unannounced” settlement freeze.
Boycotts ‘Disproportionate’ UNHRC Meeting on Settlements
The Obama administration refused on Monday to participate in a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Israeli settlements and slammed the body for its...
White House Already Criticizes Housing Minister over Settlements
The White House wasted ho time in expressing dissatisfaction with Israel's new Ministry of Housing Uri Ariel, one day after he took office. Ariel...
Holland ‘Recommends’ Yesha Products with ‘Made in Israel’ Label
The Dutch government has advised business owners to refrain from labeling products from the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem as “Made...
Jewish Press Radio with Yishai Fleisher: In the Eyes of the Rebbe
Yishai Fleisher and Baruch Viden discuss a recently-read book about the Lubavitcher Rebbe's view of settling the Land of Israel and also how programs like Taglit are decreasing the intermarriage rate among young Jews.
‘Peace Without Partners’ Reads Like a Python Sketch, But Funnier
I believe it was the late Albert Einstein who said that Madness is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results. Indeed, every single time the prospects of two states for two peoples have been entertained seriously and officially, beginning with the 1936 Peel Commission, through the 1947 UN partition resolution, through the 1992 Oslo accords and then at the 2000 Barak-Arafat-Clinton Camp David summit, every single one of those attempts ended in rivers of blood.