All Journal Posts Tagged 'jerusalem' (30)

More than 10,000 gather in Jerusalem to protest Netanyahu's frozen nerve

On a chilly Jerusalem night, opponents of the government moratorium on new private building in Judea and Samaria were came out in force, decrying what they see as PM Netanyahu's capitulation to American pressure. The demonstrators filled Paris Square to say "yes" to building in Judea and Samaria and "no" to the anti-settlement policies of Netanyahu, President Barack Obama and most of the rest of the world. The Jerusalem Post estimated the crowd at 10,000. Ynetnews claimed… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on December 10, 2009 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Jerusalem is United: The Swedish Government Sucks

Sweden's attempts to insert language into an EU resolution on the Middle East that would recognize east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state harms European efforts to play a significant part in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued Tuesday morning. The statement followed a Haaretz report that the Swedes were pushing a resolution that will be discussed at a monthly meeting of EU ministers… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on December 1, 2009 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

Palestinians to ask UN to impose state based on 1967 borders

Palestinian statehood is a "vital" component necessary for regional peace, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message to mark Monday's annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. But amid criticism of Israel's settlement activities during the two-day solidarity event, Israeli officials were bracing for Palestinian diplomats to declare new diplomatic strategies during a General Assembly debate on Monday. Specifically, officials were expected… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on December 1, 2009 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

World leaders kvetch about building plans in Jerusalem

Israel's plan to build some 900 units in the capital's southeastern Gilo neighborhood "complicates" efforts to restart peace talks and could be "very dangerous" because it embitters the Palestinians, US President Barack Obama told Fox News Wednesday, after taking a breaking from touring the Great Wall of China. Obama complained that additional "settlement building" did not make Israel safer. Israelis do not consider construction in their capital city to be "settlements" no… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 19, 2009 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Hamas blamed for resurgent violence on Temple Mount

Nine police officers and an Australian reporter were lightly wounded Sunday during clashes between security forces and Arab rioters in the capital. Police entered the Temple Mount twice during another day of fierce rioting by the mostly young rioters, who tossed rocks and at least one firebomb. Police said the riots began when officers were accompanying a group of tourists up to the mount. Police saw Muslim youth gathering rocks to throw and pouring oil onto the ground to… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 25, 2009 at 11:38pm — 2 Comments

Israeli cops catch and release inciting Islamic leader

Israeli police arrested Tuesday Ra'ad Salah, a top leader of Israel's Islamic movement, for inciting to violence mobs in Jerusalem's Old City, where Palestinian rioters have pelted stones and bottles at Israelis over the course of the week. But soon after his arrest he was released, with a 30-day order to stay away from Jerusalem.

On Sunday, about 150 Palestinian protesters hurled ro… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 6, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Kotel Rabbi: Return sanity to Old City

Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz on Tuesday called on religious leaders in Jerusalem's Old City to work together to restore calm after days of clashes between police and Arab rioters. "I call on religious leaders in the Old City to find a way to bring sanity back to the holy city, so that everyone can come to the holy sites without encountering fear and hostility," he said in a special message release Tuesday afternoon. Although today proved relatively quiet, Rabinovitz said that Islamic f… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 6, 2009 at 8:29pm — 1 Comment

Capital top cop calls Jerusalem Muslims "ungrateful" as violence continues

Jerusalem's Muslim residents are "ungrateful," the city's police chief, Cmdr. Aharon Franco said Monday, in the wake of recent clashes between police and Palestinian rioters in the Old City. Monday a border policeman was stabbed in the neck as he entered a bus full of Arabs.

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Added by Israel Insider on October 5, 2009 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

Palestinians: Israel plans Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

Israel plans to allow Jewish worshipers to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a regular basis, dividing prayer time between Muslims and Jews, officials at the Islamic Christian Society in Support of Jerusalem said Monday, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. Currently, Israel's Jewish citizens -- as opposed to Arab ones -- are not permitted to enter the Temple Mount compound. On Sunday, clashes broke out inside the sanctuary when Jews - it was unclear whether… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 4, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Is Obama Ready To Speak His Mind?

President Obama’s address at the United Nations on 23 September has given some indication that he would soon be releasing his own plan for achieving the creation of a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan - the so called “two state solution - an outcome that has avoided the best efforts of previous American Presidents for the last sixteen years. In his carefully crafted address he made the following statement: “The time has come to re-launch negotiations - without preconditions -… Continue

Added by david singer on September 27, 2009 at 12:15am — No Comments

Huckabee nixes Palestinian state within Land of Israel

Former US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that there is no place for a Palestinian state "in the middle of the Jewish homeland" and that Jews should be able to build anywhere in the land of Israel. Huckabee's opposition to a Palestinian state puts him at odds with the US government and the "conventional wisdom" of most Democrats and Republicans, few of whom have toured the Biblical heartland as he had. It even separates him from Prime M… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on August 18, 2009 at 10:00pm — 10 Comments

Palestine - Abbas Accelerates Into The Abyss

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has signed his own death warrant as the preferred Arab partner to negotiate the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank between Arabs and Jews. His demise follows his failure - after being re-elected as Chairman of Fatah in Bethlehem this week - to propose or procure any changes to the constitution of that terrorist organization at its first convention held in the last 20 years. The constitution of Fatah presently calls for the destruction of Is… Continue

Added by david singer on August 13, 2009 at 3:01am — No Comments

Netanyahu-Mitchell meeting canceled over settlement spat

Following the declaration by a State Department official that the US demand to stop settlements extends to east Jerusalem, a long-planned meeting of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Barack Obama's Mideast envoy George Mitchell has been canceled. According to diplomatic officials, the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 23, 2009 at 7:30pm — 8 Comments

US: Jewish breeding, building must end in Jerusalem too

Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem are included in the US demand that Israel halt "settlement" construction, including for natural growth, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told The Jerusalem Post during a press briefing on Monday. "We're talking about all settlement activity, yes, in the area across the line," he said, referring to neighborhoods in Jerusal… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 23, 2009 at 8:30am — 16 Comments

Non, merci: Bibi nixes Paris visit over French affronts

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy scheduled for next week, reportedly in pique over France's stated positions on Jerusalem and a proposed additional Palestinian state. Despite other reasons cited -- a desire to put a distance between the recent meeting with US President Obama and meeting with European leaders as well as "incomplete preparations" -- multiple Israeli sources believe that Netanyahu wanted to send a mes… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on May 27, 2009 at 10:39am — 5 Comments

Bibi on Jerusalem Day: UN flag won't wave over the Kotel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem Thursday night that the Israeli flag will fly forever over the Western Wall (Kotel). The first prime minister in years to speak at the religious Zionism yeshiva on Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), his declaration was clearly intended as counterpoint to U.S. President Barack Obama’s reported support for the Arab League plan to force Israeli to surrender the Old City to international administrat… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on May 22, 2009 at 3:00pm — 15 Comments

Twenty Ways You Know Passover is Coming to Jerusalem

For the past several years I've been putting out a light-hearted '18 Ways You Know Pesach is Coming In Israel' piece to describe the frenetic days leading up to Pesach in the holy city. This year, there are a few additional notable events that are driving the news cycles over here. Apart from the upcoming Mid-East visit of the pope and the ongoing saga of when Bibi may be able to put together a new government, there's the controversy over the Chametz Law. Never heard of it? Well, since… Continue

Added by Judy Lash Balint on March 22, 2009 at 4:03pm — No Comments

Tourist discovers trove of Roman gold coins in Jerusalem

Dig this: A British tourist working in an archaeological dig in Jerusalem on Sunday unearthed a treasure of 264 gold coins from about 1,400 years ago. Archaeologists called the find "one of the most impressive deposits ever found in the capital."

The coins were found by Nadine Ross, who came to Israel for one month to volunteer at the archaeological site at

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Added by Israel Insider on December 23, 2008 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

Palestinians dissed Olmert bid to give up 93% of West Bank

Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Ahmed Qureia tells reporters that Prime Minister Olmert proposed that Israel take in 5,000 Palestinian refugees over five years, and agreed to give up more than 93% of Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") as well as land from within sovereign Israel to compensate for the 6.8% of the West Bank that Israel wants to annex.

Qureia says both offers were unacceptable to the Palestinians. He said, in remarks to reporters, that Israel ne

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Added by Israel Insider on December 12, 2008 at 11:30pm — 11 Comments

Jerusalem elects unorthodox mayor for a change

Nir Barkat, a high tech entrepreneur and city councilman, defeated the Haredi ultra-orthodox candidate in Jerusalem, winning municipal elections and succeeding Uri Lupolianski as mayor of Israel's capital by a 52-43 margin.

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Added by Israel Insider on November 12, 2008 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

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