Matisyahu ousted from Spanish festival for not endorsing Palestinian state
Matisyahu was disinvited from a Spanish music festival because he would not publicly endorse Palestinian statehood.
Matisyahu was disinvited from a Spanish music festival because he would not publicly endorse Palestinian statehood.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s terms for diplomacy that might lead to a Palestinian state meant Israel had lost international credibility as a potential peacemaker.
A trumpeter playing sorrowful songs outside of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art seemed to symbolize the melancholy many of the proponents of the two-state solution of an independent Palestinian state next to Israel feel these days.
A slate of 100 U.S. Jewish leaders wrote Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urging him to make public his opposition to a ‘right of return’ and his agreement to a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Participation in United Nations forums that refer to a \”State of Palestine\” does not constitute U.S. recognition of Palestinian statehood, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said.
President Obama has said privately that \”Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are,” columnist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the Czech Republic for standing with Israel against a United Nations resolution that gave the Palestinians enhanced statehood status.
A U.S. Senate amendment that would have penalized Palestinians for seeking non-member state status at the United Nations was not attached to its intended law.
Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday morning to celebrate the UN General Assembly vote bestowing non-member status to “Palestine.”
The arguments for and against the latest Palestinian bid for statehood status at the United Nations come down to which is the faster path to irrelevancy.