Daily Archives: August 5, 2013

1,000 Jurists to EU: Settlements are Legal

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170582#.UgBCERXn_IV A mammoth jurists' petition delivered to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton states that the EU is wrong in holding that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are illegal, and that the term...

(Audio) Former Jerusalem police chief Aryeh Amit: If leadership had guts the Temple Mount...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=61680 (Audio) Former Jerusalem police chief Aryeh Amit: If leadership had guts the Temple Mount would be shared Interviewed on IDF Radio 5 August 2013 http://youtu.be/DrwoOwh9mXU Program host Razi Barkai: With an area of 144 dunam, in contrast...

Western Media Ignores Hamas Crackdown on Journalists

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/08/05/western-media-ignores-hamas-crackdown-on-journalists/ Poor Harriet Sherwood, missing the big picture while obsessively reporting about the latest round of Middle East peace talks that promise to end the six-decade-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a mere nine months. While Sherwood, the...

Palestinian Authority FM delivers Abbas message for Rohani

http://presstv.com/detail/2013/08/05/317345/pa-chief-message-delivered-to-rohani/ Al-Maliki handed over the PA chief’s written message to Iran’s First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri during a meeting in Tehran on Monday. Jahangiri said Palestine has been an important issue for Iran over the past...

Palestinians Dismiss Prisoner Release as a “Bribe”

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3917/palestinians-prisoner-release The argument that the release of Palestinian prisoners boosts the standing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and "moderate" Palestinians and facilitates the resumption of peace talks with Israel is not necessarily true. Many Palestinians...

The Right Moment for Israel’s Danny Danon?

http://www.danielpipes.org/13202/danny-danon Danon (right) is widely seen as a thorn in Netanyahu's side, as in this Ha'aretz cartoon. "Lunacy." That's how Danny Danon describes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to hand over 104 killers to the Palestinian...

Whose taxpayers fund UNRWA?

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Whose-taxpayers-fund-UNRWA-322135#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I0_1375747952821&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com&pfname=&rpctoken=43187279 The United Nations Relief and Work Agency is the only UN refugee agency dedicated to a single group of people. It is the only agency that designates individuals as original refugees if they lived...