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Netanyahu's cabinet approves 10-month settlement freeze

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following statement on the Cabinet Decision to suspend new construction in Judea and Samaria "Today, my cabinet authorized a policy of restraint regarding settlements which will include a suspension of new permits and new construction in Judea and Samaria for a period of ten months." Today, my cabinet authorized a policy of restraint regarding settlements which will include a suspension of new permits and new construction in Jude… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 26, 2009 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

Deal for Shalit appears closer than ever

Israeli media and officials cautiously reported that a deal with Hamas to release captured soldiers Cpl. Gilad Shalit appears to be reaching its final stages. Though significant progress has been made in negotiations, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Sunday that there remained open issues and that an agreement would not be reached unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "complies with the demands of the resistance." However, Hamas sources quoted by Arab media said… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 23, 2009 at 12:51am — 1 Comment

Palin: Jews "flocking" to Israel need somewhere to live

Sarah Palin told Barbara Walters that she takes issue with the Obama administration's insistence that Israel halt settlement construction. All the Jews "flocking" to Israel need somewhere to live.

"I disagree with the Obama administration on that," Palin told Walters. "I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking t… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 21, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

EasyJet christens new Israel route with Shoah fashion shoot

Easyet, the British low-cost airline, has "profusely" apologized after fashion photos shot at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, with models posing among the commemorative stones, were featured in its in-flight magazine. Nearly three weeks after they were first distributed, Easy… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 21, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Polish convicts recruited to clean Jewish cemeteries

Nearly a dozen Polish prisons and detention centers have signed up their inmates to an unusual form of labor - rescuing overgrown, long-neglected Jewish cemeteries, Reuters reports. Poland was home to an estimated third of the world's Jews before World War II but the vast majority were murdered in the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 20, 2009 at 12:00pm — No 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

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 Israel Insider on November 17, 2009 at 10:04am — 1 Comment

Netanyahu: Unilateral moves by PA will be reciprocated

"There is no substitute for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and any unilateral attempts outside that framework will unravel the existing agreements between us and could entail unilateral steps by Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a high level gathering of Israeli and American policy makers at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem on Sunday night. Netanyahu's statement came a day after chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat announced that th… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 15, 2009 at 11:09pm — 5 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

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 — 3 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

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

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