All Journal Posts Tagged 'obama' (132)

Lieberman: If Palestinians don't want peace, we couldn't care lesss

Israel says that Palestinian dismay at the partial halt of settlement expansions should be the last issue of concern. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Israel disregards Palestinians' opposition to its offer for a partial freeze on its settlement activity. "The last thing that should interest us is the Palestinians' concern. Before the Palestinian issue, what should interest us are our friends in the world," Reuters quoted Lieberman as saying on Thu… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 27, 2009 at 10:42am — No Comments

FBI: US Jews mostly likely to be attacked, by far

The FBI’s 2008 ‘Hate’ Crimes statistics are out and surprise, surprise: Hates crimes against Moslems, despite all the kvetching of CAIR and Obama, are not on the rise. Anti-Muslim crimes dropped nearly 10% in 2008, while crimes against Jews and Christians increased. From the FBI report: Of the 1,732 victims of anti-religious hate crimes: ~ 66.1 percent were targeted because of an offender’s anti-Jewish bias. ~ 8.7 percent were victims of anti-Christian bias (5.1 percent an… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 27, 2009 at 3:08am — 1 Comment

American shtinkers snoop on settlements

Emissaries of the Obama administration have been traveling around Judea and Samaria in recent weeks, asking residents about construction in their towns and passing the information back to Washington. In Efrat, for instance, the “capital” of Gush Etzion, Regional Council head Sha’ul Goldstein met with an American diplomat who asked for a briefing on the pace of construction in the region. Goldstein said, “I told the residents to tell the truth: that we have come home to bui… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 27, 2009 at 2:57am — 3 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

Report: Meeting of Bibi and Obama was all about Iran

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama focused excusively on Iran when they met in Washington Monday, and so did Netanyahu and French president Nicolas Sarkozy when they met in Paris on Wednesday. Iran also was the subject for the meeting between defense minster Ehud Barak and US defense secretary Robert Gates Monday, DebkaFile reports. DEBKAfile's Washington sources report that… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 13, 2009 at 11:56am — 3 Comments

Obama's wit: "We'll trade our Lieberman for yours"

Ben Smith of Politico reports: A source at the White House for the president's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reports that Obama ended the event with a modest proposal for the domestic politics of both men. At the meeting's conclusion, the two leaders walked out to the adjoining room where the Israeli and American delegatio… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

US officials bash Bibi; Bibi's boys boast of beer with Barack

Senior Israel officials on Wednesday adamantly rejected media speculation about tension between Jerusalem and Washington. "The reception [of Netanyahu in the White House] was cordial and friendly in many aspects, and even included rolling-up sleeves and cracking open beer bottles when necessary, in line with the tradition of coordination between senior Israeli and US officials," National Security Adviser Uzi Arad told Israel Radio from Paris, the latest stop on PM Benjamin… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

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 — 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

Constable Abbas throws a fit, vows to quit

Mahmoud Abbas, impotent "President" of the West Bank with the approximate power of a traffic cop, threw a tantrum and warned that he would resign unless US President Barack Hussein Obama would get tough on the Israelis. Channel 10 revealed the threat to resign on its Monday night newscast. In the past few days, Abbas has sent irate messages to the White House, vowing to step down and saying he would not participate in the next Palestinian elections, no matter when they are… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 26, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Obama to share Nobel Peace Prize with his teleprompter

President Barack Hussein Obama has received a Peace Prize from the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway. It will entitle him to more than a million dollars to use as he pleases. He joins Yasser Arafat -- who won the award in 1994 together with Yitzhak Rabin and, as an afterthought, Shimon Peres -- as a winner of the prestigious award. He will need to share the award with his teleprompter. Most Israeli leaders suppressed their smirks and said really nice things, joining other wo… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 9, 2009 at 8:00pm — 9 Comments

Fatah demands settlement freeze before talks

The Palestinian Fatah party has told West Bank constable Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the movement, that he better not resume peace talks unless and until Israel totally freezes home building for Jews in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, a senior Fatah member said Wednesday. Fatah believes that only Arabs should be allowed to build homes there. Fatah's position is designed to help Abbas resist American pressure to begin negotiations with Israel, even though Israeli… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 30, 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

Obama conditions US commitment to Israeli security

For the first time in history, a U.S. president has explicitly conditioned the American commitment to Israel's security on Israeli compliance to "legitimate" Palestinian claims. Speaking to the UN General Assembly, Obama declared: "The United States does Israel no favors when we fail to couple an unwavering commitment to its security with an insistence that Israel respect the legitimate claims and rights of the Palestinians." As Aaron Lerner of the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments

Obama expects Netanyahu to accept Olmert's firesale

In his meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, US President Barack Hussein Obama said that he expects Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept as a starting point the massive concessions offered by his predecessors. There's an historical record of the entire past negotiations and there are principles," he said. "We won't start the neg… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Obama drops freeze demand as Israel, PA agree to talk

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to relaunch peace negotiations without any preconditions, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, after a three-way photo opportunity with President Barack Hussein Obama and PA Chief Constable Mahmoud Abbas. "There was general agreement, including on the part of the Palestinians, that the peace process has to be resumed as soon as possible with no preconditions," Netanyahu said. But the Palestinian side did not confirm the cla… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Netanyahu says US is learning: "we simply will not give in"

In interviews with the anchors of Israel's two commercial television stations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke forcefully of Israel's determination to avoid was he termed the "fixed game" of the UN accusation of "war crimes" and of his determination to resist pressures, including from the Obama Administration, that might jeopardize the country's security. The following transcripts were communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser. Here are some excerpts from… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 18, 2009 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Obama Reaches Boiling Point On Settlements Freeze

The announcement by Israel’s Defence Minister - Ehud Barak - on September 7 that Israel will proceed to complete 2500 housing units in the West Bank - and commence building another 455 units there - is Israel’s response to the demand by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Israel freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank including “natural growth”. It is also an answer to the Palestinian Authority whose chief negotiator - Saeb Erekat - said on 31 August: "There… Continue

Added by david singer on September 15, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

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