More emboldened than ever following ouster from deputy minister post, Danny Danon wants to keep PM Netanyahu honest.
Last Friday, President Obama sat down for an interview with NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman about foreign affairs.
Palestinian flags flapped in this reporter’s face and the protestors waving them in the air were singing catchy chants, at a demonstration critical of Israel that took place outside the Israeli consulate’s office in West Los Angeles on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 7.\n
Martin Indyk, the former chief U.S. envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, said Israeli settlement activity caused the Palestinians to walk away from negotiations.
Only 18 days after joining together in a hopeful prayer vigil for three Israeli teenage boys abducted at a bus stop outside their school, 1,500 members of the Los Angeles Jewish community grieved together in a memorial service for the teens—Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel—whose bodies were found on June 30 in a field north of Hebron.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for “freedom in our sovereign and independent state” during a prayer for peace with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Pope Francis.
Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past.\n\n
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States planned to re-evaluate its approach to Middle East peacemaking in light of recent setbacks.
Palestinians applied to join 15 agreements and conventions governing human rights and international relations.\n
Israeli President Shimon Peres doubled up on positive statements about Arab leaders this afternoon, praising Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at noon and lauding Jordanian King Abdullah II at 3:30 p.m.\n
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