One councillor has claimed that her constituents have been left “afraid to walk the streets” after an influx of asylum seekers into her town, where migrants now make up over one-fifth of the population.
There is one strategic shift that could make Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations more fruitful, without risking U.S. and Israeli interests or security.
JERUSALEM – A majority of Israeli Jews support settlement construction and believe President Barack Obama to have been “unfriendly” towards Israel during his tenure, a new survey published in the wake of the anti-settlements United Nations Security Council shows.
JERUSALEM/ MAALE ADUMIM – Mike Huckabee slammed the United Nations as a “farce” for caring more about “Israelis building bedrooms” in the settlements than the threats posed by Iran and the human rights violations of Syria and North Korea.
TEL AVIV – Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said he was advancing legislation to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jerusalem satellite city of Ma’ale Adumim.
TEL AVIV – The YouTube sensations known as Diamond and Silk released a new video slamming President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for “stabbing Israel in the back.”
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas imposed conditions on resuming peace talks with Israel, saying an end to settlement construction and an implementation of existing agreements were necessary in order for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
CNN’s correspondent in Israel, Oren Liebermann, reported Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech at the State Department had “missed the mark” if Kerry’s intent had been to reach Israeli viewers and convince them that lame duck President Barack Obama was serious about peace.
TEL AVIV – A senior delegation from the Palestinian Authority will visit Washington with the hopes of meeting President-elect Donald Trump and to urge President Barack Obama to use his final weeks in office to take steps towards reviving the moribund peace process.
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said that the U.S. would not rule out taking steps at the UN for a framework for a Palestinian state and condemned Israel’s settlement enterprise as sabotaging the two-state solution.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that despite his disagreements he enjoyed his meetings with President Barack Obama over the past seven years, but that he hopes the commander-in-chief will not advance a last-ditch peace initiative before leaving office on January 20.
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. Saturday, warned that current trends in the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts are leading to a one-state reality. Kerry also said that if the situation
Secretary of State John Kerry, possibly concerned along with the Obama Administration that the nuclear deal they are making with Iran has some details they would rather keep secret, gave an implied warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will speak to Congress on Tuesday, that he better not spill any details of the deal in his speech.
Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. should be wary of trusting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warnings on Iran, because Netanyahu had also backed the Iraq War. Kerry’s remarks were hypocritical, since he also supported the war. And they raise the disturbing suggestion, beloved of conspiracy theorists, that Israel is dragging the U.S. to war. Yet it is worth asking whether Kerry’s criticism has merit.
Despite a supposed White House policy against meeting foreign leaders facing elections, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry both met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog in Munich on Saturday. Herzog is the main rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Mar. 17 election, and his supporters played up the meeting as evidence that Herzog is more respected by the Obama administration and world leaders in general than Netanyahu.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused his major political rivals of coordinating with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in an effort to derail his re-election. Specifically, Netanyahu has pointed to reports that former justice minister Tzipi Livni asked
