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
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.
Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians during an early morning raid in a West Bank refugee camp on Monday, hours before negotiators met for another round of peace talks, Palestinian sources said.
The U.S. State Department on Monday denied reports that U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians had been canceled following clashes in the West Bank.
Israel was set to free 26 Palestinian prisoners within hours to help underpin renewed peace talks, after its High Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal against their release by relatives of some of the Israelis they killed.
There\’s no shortage of cynicism and skepticism about the restarted, U.S.-facilitated Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A committee of Israeli government ministers released a list of Palestinian prisoners to be freed by Israel in advance of the first round of peace negotiations.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that Israel\’s announcement of new settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem \”were to some degree expected,\” and urged Israelis and Palestinians to move head with peace talks due to resume this week.
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