All Journal Posts Tagged 'diplomacy' (65)

Even the Times is ridiculing Obama's Mideast diplomacy

A New York Times editorial has sharply criticized Obama Middle East policy and those behind it. "We were thrilled when President Obama decided to plunge fully into the Middle East peace effort. He appointed a skilled special envoy, George Mitchell, and demanded that Israel freeze settlements, Palestinians crack down on anti-I… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 28, 2009 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments

State Department, US officials oppose unilateral PA moves

The US is opposed to the Palestinian plan to pursue unilateral statehood at the UN, a State Department official said Monday night. "We support the creation of a Palestinian state," spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters, but "we are convinced that has to be achieved through negotiations between two parties." On Monday a visiting delegation of US lawmakers slammed the idea as a "waste of time" and said America would likely veto such a proposal should it come before the Security… Continue

Added by 2JEWS on November 17, 2009 at 10:03am — No Comments

Did Israel and Iran meet, talk, or just stare each other down?

Israel and Iran both took part in an international conference on nuclear disarmament last month in Egypt. Now media reports are indicating that the two enemies met face to face. An Israeli official confirmed Thursday the two sides attended the conference but denied they talked face-to-face. Iran also denied any direct meetings. But Australia's The Age newspaper quoted participants as saying that the rivals had a "very robust exchange" during the two-day event in the Egyptian capital. Israel's… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 24, 2009 at 7:55pm — No Comments

Iran rejects latest UN offer, stalling for time

Iran on Friday appeared to reject a UN-drafted plan for cutting its stockpile of nuclear fuel that the West fears could be used for weapons, instead calling for the world to respond to its own proposal. The deal, proposed by the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), has already won the approval of the United States, Russia and France. By offering its own proposal, of which no details were available, Iran appeared to be again seeking to buy time to avoid a tightenin… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 23, 2009 at 5:45pm — No Comments

Ayalon tells NY Jewish leaders to fight Goldstone report

One day after the publication of the United Nations report by Judge Richard Goldstone, which blamed Israel for “war crimes,” Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met with the heads of the Jewish community in New York and exhorted them to fight the report. "The Goldstone report should be treated like the U.N.'s Resolution 3379 that compared Zionism to racism,” Ayalon told the local leaders. “That is why we must commit ourselves and act with all our force against the report,… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 16, 2009 at 10:20pm — 2 Comments

Sources: Netanyahu secretly briefed Putin about Iran plans

It turns out that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't visiting a security installation at all when he disappeared for 10 hours last week. He was making a mysterious visit to Moscow, reportedly to meeting with Russian Premier Putin. Kommersant newspaper quoted "experts" as saying they believe a visit of this kind could have stemmed from urgent circumstances such as "Israeli plans to attack Iran". The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that Netanyahu's Mond… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 10, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Israeli leftists backing Netanyahu's peace initiative

A group of public figures on the Left will launch an initiative in upcoming weeks to support Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's efforts to advance the peace process, officials involved in the campaign said on Tuesday. The group includes former ministers Ami Ayalon and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former deputy minister Dalia Rabin, former Foreign Ministry director-general Avi Gil, former IAF commander Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eliezer Shkedi and former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) ch… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 9, 2009 at 10:29am — No Comments

Israel summons Norwegian ambassador to protest divestment

Director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yossi Gal, called onto the carpet the Norwegian ambassador to Israel, Jakken Bjørn Lian, to protest Norway's decision to withdraw investments from the Israeli defense contractor Elbit. Following the meeting, the Foreign Ministry announced that "Israel will conside… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 3, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Report: Obama may drop key condition for Iran nuclear talks

The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down nuclear facilities during the early phases of negotiations over its atomic program, according to officials involved in the discussions. The proposals, exchanged in confidential strategy sessions with European allies, would press Tehran to open up its nuclear program gradually to wide-rang… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on April 14, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

White House displeased with Peres greeting to Persians

Apparently US President Barack Hussein Obama believes that he's the only one who can send a Nowruz greeting. The White House is reported displeased that Israeli President Shimon Peres, in a holiday message to the people of Iran, urged them to repudiate the country's radical Islamic leadership.

"On the eve of the new year, I appeal to the noble Iranian people on behalf of the ancient Jewish people and urge them to reclaim their worthy place among the nations of the en

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Added by Israel Insider on March 23, 2009 at 12:30pm — 16 Comments

No deal: Negotiators for Shalit return from Egypt empty-handed

Despite apparent signs of flexibility from Hamas, Israeli negotiators for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit are returning without an agreement. Apparently the Islamic terror group was unwilling to accept even the wholesale concession, even capitulation, that the Olmert government was prepared to make in terms of freeing more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners, including mass murders and masterminds of some of the most horrific terror attacks against Israeli c… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Iran demands apologies from Obama's Hollywood lackeys

An adviser to Iran’s president on Sunday demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening and the Jewish head of the Academy, Sid Ganis, saying films such as “300” and “The Wrestler” -- in which Mickey Rourke ripped up an Iranian flag --were “insulting” to Iranians.

Without an apology, members of Iran’s film industry should refuse to meet with representatives from the nine-member team, said Javad Sham

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Added by Israel Insider on March 3, 2009 at 3:00am — 8 Comments

Clinton Faces Terror Funding Dilemma

As Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel continue despite the Israeli cease-fire, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive today in Egypt to convene an international conference aimed at coordinating international aid for Gaza.

While Clinton and other world leaders contend aid to Gaza will not be transmitted directly to the Hamas-controlled regime in Gaza and will instead be transferred through the Palestinian Authority (PA) and/or the United Nations Relief a

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Added by Israel Insider on March 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — 9 Comments

Israel: No ceasefire or open crossings without Shalit free

Israel will not agree to a truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip unless it includes the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit, the Prime Minister's Office said in a rare statement released on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, emphasizing its intended importance. "Israel will not reach any understandings regarding the calm (cease-fire) before the release of Gilad Schalit," the statement read.

Since the end of Operation Cast Lead, Israel and Hamas have been holdi

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Added by Israel Insider on February 14, 2009 at 8:30pm — 7 Comments

Erdogan hailed in Turkey after Davos clash with Peres

After a stormy debate (watch in full) on Gaza at the normally sedate World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan returned to a hero's welcome in Istanbul,

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Added by Israel Insider on January 30, 2009 at 2:00pm — 10 Comments

Hamas demands Abbas give up talks with Israel

A senior Hamas official said Sunday the Palestinian Authority must end all security coordination and peace talks with Israel before the two rival Palestinian groups could even talk about internal reconciliation. The remarks by Osama Hamdan will complicate Arab efforts to reconcile Hamas, which controls Gaza, and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

Hamdan is Hamas's representative in Lebanon and is close to top Damascus-based leader Khaled Masha

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Added by Israel Insider on January 25, 2009 at 6:00pm — 9 Comments

Americans overwhelmingly support Israel, reject Palestinian state

The latest Ipsos/McClatchy Poll overturns media attempts to portray a two state solution and creation of a "Palestine" -- strongly favored by President Barack Hussein Obama -- as a popular and desired outcome. Not only that -- most American see Hamas and its goals as being representative of the Palestinians as a whole. Nor are they confident that Obama can resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Results include the following questions and answers:1. As you may know,

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Added by Israel Insider on January 21, 2009 at 10:30am — 11 Comments

Hamas, Jihad declare ceasefire, demand open crossings, IDF pullout

Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups declared a ceasefire in Gaza but at the same time demanded that the IDF be out of the strip and crossing points opened within one week.

Meanwhile, rockets and mortars continue to fall on Israel. One woman was lightly injured, and several suffered from shock. One of the rockets damaged a chicken coop, killing 2000 to 3000 chickens and barely missing workers in the henhouse. 13 rockets and four mortars were fired at Israel before 3p

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Added by Israel Insider on January 18, 2009 at 4:30pm — 10 Comments

Moon sets sights on Mideast to play peacemaker

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will try his less than even hands at achieving an elusive calm between Israel and the Hamas terror group, or perhaps help arrange terms of the Hamas surrender, when he arrives in the Middle East later today.

The Korean has been trying to plead with, and pressure, the parties since the Israeli air offensive began on December 27 in response to resurgent Hamas rocketing of southern Israel.

In a press conference before his depart

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Added by Israel Insider on January 13, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Palestinians say Haniyeh, pleading for ceasefire, is "waving the white flag"

For the first time since the IDF began its "Cast Lead" operation in Gaza, Hamas on Monday signaled its willingness to accept a cease-fire with Israel, apparently without preconditions. Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, hiding among children in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City since the beginning of the o

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Added by Israel Insider on January 13, 2009 at 4:30am — 10 Comments

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