All Journal Posts (721)

Israeli leaders hint meeting with Obama was really important

Although Monday night's talks between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama remain shrouded in secrecy, the Israeli prime minister broadly hinted that the "importance of the visit will become clear in the future." He discounted reports of tension with the American President: "Reports about a bad atmosphere are garbage," he said. "To put it mildly, they are grossly inaccurate and don't reflect the truth." On the contrary, Netanyahu insisted, the atmosphere "was very open and v… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Mets stand up to anti-Israel intimidation

In the face of far-left, Arab and Muslim opposition, the New York Mets organization has decided to honor its commitment to rent its Caesar's Club for a fundraiser benefiting the Jewish community of Hevron. Shortly after the venue for the Hebron Fund dinner in support of the Jews of Hevron was publicized, eleven organizations sent a letter to the Mets management calling upon them to disallow the event at Citi Field. Signatories included organizations from Israel, the US and… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 1:30am — 2 Comments

Media Blackout Follows Obama-Netanyahu Meeting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a one hundred minute meeting with US President Barack Obama Monday night which addressed the Middle East peace process, Iran and Israeli security. About half of the meeting was one-on-one and half of which included four members of staff on each side. Barak, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, National Security Council head Uzi Arad and PMO adviser Yitzhak Molcho joined Netanyahu for the first half, while Obama and Netanyahu met privately… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 10, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Obama gives Netanyahu crawlspace access to Oval Office

Obama prepares for Netanyahu visit to White House
After weeks of hesitation and foot-dragging the White House finally and grudgingly announced that there would be a meeting between Barack Hussein Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the meeting was pointedly described as "brief" and scheduled after normal working hours, at 7pm (2am Isra… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 9, 2009 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Obama cancels GA speech, keeps Netanyahu dangling

Class act: Obama takes pleasure in humiliating the Prime Minister of Israel.
US President Barack Hussein Obama has canceled his scheduled appearance Tuesday before the Genera Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington to attend a memorial service for victims of the mass shooting carried out in Fort Hood, Texas, by a US Army officer of Muslim faith and Palestini… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 9, 2009 at 12:30am — 3 Comments

Where is "A Street"?

By all accounts the first national conference of J Street in Washington last week was a great success, The birth of a new organization said to be pro-Israel and pro-peace should be cause for celebration involving as it does hundreds - if not thousands - of new activists who are sorely needed to propound and defend Israel in the arena of public opinion. J Street has run into trouble because its policies are said to be inimical to Israel's national interest. For example its demand that Israel c… Continue

Added by david singer on November 8, 2009 at 6:18am — No Comments

Obama willing to speak with US Jews, but not Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes off on Sunday morning for Washington, where he is to address the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America the next day. US President Barack Hussein Obama is also scheduled to address the GA, which is the largest gathering of Jewish communal professionals and activists each year, but it seems the two can't find time to get together. It will be Obama's first public address to a Jewish audience since his election. Netanyahu has point… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 7, 2009 at 10:57am — 4 Comments

Abbas says he has "no desire" for re-run

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that he has "no desire" to run for re-election. Speaking on TV, Abbas said he had informed Fatah and PLO officials of his decision late on Wednesday night. PA officials said that Abbas's decision was a protest of the US administration's failure to force Israel to stop construction work in the West Bank settlements. They did not rule out the possibility that Abbas would change his mind before the January 24 election.… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 6, 2009 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

Israel releases ship and crew, keeps the weapons

Israeli security forces late Wednesday released a ship that carried an estimated one million pounds -- weight, not currency -- of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah. Israeli naval commando seized the vessel Francop earlier this week in Mediterranean waters. The ship was set to continue on its original route to Turkey and then on to Egypt. Israel completed unloading the military cargo, which included thousands of rockets as well as ammunition and grenades on Thursday morning. A… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 5, 2009 at 5:16pm — 1 Comment

US disses General Assembly debate on Goldstone Report

The United States on Wednesday opted not to participate actively in the United Nations General Assembly debate on a resolution that would call on Israel and the Palestinians to investigate charges of war crimes during the Gaza war that were detailed in the Goldstone Commission's report. The nonbinding resolution on the Goldstone report, bound for approval by the 192-nation assembly, also requests that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submit the 575-page report to the Securi… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 5, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Response to Alex Constantine

As usual, Alex Constantine makes slanderous lies against me. He claims: "I am sometimes taken to task by (typically illiterate) right-wingers for repulsive fantasies swimming in their fevered little heads. To wit, from 'conservative' Zionist Benyamin Solomon's Fox-News-inspired-Swift-Boating-of-liberals-and-Muslims junk site (he once started up an "Anti-Constantine" blog, if you can believe it, that had a single contributor - the follower of an anti-Semitic, occult "channeler of the dead" who cl… Continue

Added by Benyamin Solomon on November 4, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Israel girds loins for GA Kangaroo Court

In preparation for the discussion of the Goldstone report tomorrow at the United Nations General Assembly today, Deputy Foreign Minister Dani Ayalon today held a briefing, along with Foreign Ministry Director General Yossi Gal and Deputy Legal Adviser Daniel Taub, for the diplomatic corps in Israel. Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon called on the ambassadors to vote against the Goldstone report at the GA, saying that "the report harms not only Isarel but every democratic, pea… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 4, 2009 at 2:14pm — 2 Comments

Israel seizes Iranian arms ship bound for Syria

Special navy forces uncovered weapons and ammunition on a cargo ship overnight Tuesday, boarding a cargo ship some 100 nautical miles west of Israel flying an Antiguan flag. The troops found the weapons and ammunition hidden behind civilian cargo. Defense officials said the ship was carrying arms sent by Iran and destined for Syria and probably Hizbullah. According to the officials, the advanced weaponry included missiles. The affair appears to be similar in scale to the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 4, 2009 at 11:51am — 2 Comments

Hamas now can hit metro Tel Aviv with missiles

Terror groups in Gaza have significantly increased the range of missiles in their arsenal and can now reach Tel Aviv, the head of Israel's military intelligence said Tuesday. Major-General Amos Yadlin told parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that Hamas had recently test-fired a missile with a range of 60 kilometers (37 miles), Israeli media reports from the session said. Channel Two said that Hamas had fired the missile last thursday, and the projectile had… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 4, 2009 at 11:45am — No Comments

Top 10 cleantech countries of 2009: Israel ranks number 5

Israel has been ranked number 5 in a survey of the top cleantech countries. Here are the criteria for making the list: I analyzed what I thought were the most important factors, such as government initiatives and programs, large investment mandates, entrepreneurial innovation as well as cultural and social drivers. What are the key objectives of the countries on my list? For starters, the creation of green collar jobs, continued economic development, and a desire to achieve energy independence… Continue

Added by Gaia-גאיה on November 4, 2009 at 8:09am — 1 Comment

The real Occupation of Gaza

"Hamas is worse than Israel, worse than Sharon." -Ziad Zaranda, a Gazan whose fiancee was killed by Hamas, on 2005 Even after Israel left all of Gaza four years ago, many people still claim that Gaza is under Israeli "occupation". To them, Hamas is still "resisting" the Israeli "occupation". It seems that Israel can't please these people, if they're going to claim that a territory Israel left is still under Israeli "occupation". But it is true that Gaza right now is under occupation; Hamas occu… Continue

Added by Benyamin Solomon on November 3, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Does Clinton's praise of Israeli policy presage policy shift?

Israel is making "unprecedented" concessions on West Bank settlement construction, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Saturday after arriving in Israel in the latest U.S. bid to renew peace talks in the region. The Obama administration had previously demanded Israel halt all settlement building before negotiations could resume. But speaking at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton said there has never been such a preconditio… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 2, 2009 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

US-born "Jewish terrorist" nabbed after twelve years of hate crimes in Israel

An American Jewish immigrant to Israel, apparently acting alone, allegedly carried out attacks over twelve years against people whom he hated. Ya'acov "Jack" Teitel, 37, was arrested by the Israel Police's YAMAM elite counterterror unit on October 7 as he was hanging flyers in the Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood which praised the attack on a Tel Aviv gay and lesbian youth club in August in which two people were killed. Teitel's spree included two Palestinian Arabs, whom he… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 2, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Sarkozy Seething - Mediterranean Union Barely Breathing

French President Nicolas Sarkozy could be excused for being very annoyed at Egypt’s precipitate action in forcing the cancellation of this month's meeting in Istanbul of the Foreign Ministers from the 43 countries that comprise the Mediterranean Union. The Union brings together European Union members with States from North Africa, the Balkans, the Arab world and Israel in a bid to foster cooperation in one of the world's most volatile regions It didn’t take long for President Sarkozy’s… Continue

Added by david singer on November 2, 2009 at 7:20am — No Comments

What's really Disproportionate

How many times have we heard that Israel carries out disproportionate force? The dopes and useful idiots, who makes that argument, were especially loud during Operation Cast Lead, which were Israel's military operations against Hamas terrorists from December 2008-January 2009. The goal of it was to end rocket attacks. It did not end the rocket attacks. These same dopes and useful idiots call the rocket attacks "small scale attacks". Well, these "small scale attacks" disrupt daily life in souther… Continue

Added by Benyamin Solomon on November 1, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments