Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asserted in January 2009, "We have proven to Hamas that we have changed the equation. Israel is not a country upon which you fire missiles and it does not respond. It is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
Professor Jim Holston of SUNY, Buffalo, sent me this (and he allowed me to cite it and insisted that I cite him by name): The Jewish National Fund and Buffalo Hillel brought Brigadier General Effi Eitam to speak on campus at the University of Buffalo on Monday night. After a friend and I confronted him with some of his fascist lies after the talk, he came up to me afterward and offered his hand. Inspired...
As someone who has already said that I think this man has committed war crimes , I shouldn't be surprised by the news that lawyers are stating that, should Olmert ever visit Britain, there is a very good chance that he could be arrested and face trial for war crimes. Neither Olmert nor Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister during the Cast Lead offensive, and a member of Israel's war cabinet, would enjoy...
• Prosecution of Israelis likely, says solicitor • Lawyers working on use of universal jurisdiction Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working to expand the application of "universal jurisdiction" for offences involving serious human rights abuses committed...
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has sent multiple messages to United States President Barack Obama threatening to quit, Channel 10 news reported Monday night. Abbas blamed Israel and the U.S. for pushing him to desperation, saying negotiations with Israel were at a stand-still and Obama had “abandoned” him. Abbas also mentioned the serious hit to his popularity caused by the...
1. Muqata comments on the Knesset approving MK Michael Ben-Ari's request for separate hours in the gym.. 2. Kaplan's Korner on the second Israel-USA basketball exhibition game , this one with the Haifa Heat, a.k.a. Maccabi Haifa, playing against the Los Angeles Clippers.. 3. Samuel Sokol interviewed Adnan Hussein i, the advisor on Jerusalem Affairs to PA President Mahmoud Abbas... very interesting...
Today's Bombshell : F ormer US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk stated that when Tzipi Livni was foreign minister she warned the Palestinian Authority not to accept a "peace" deal offered by then-prime minister Ehud Olmert. "In a discussion at President Shimon Peres's 'Facing Tomorrow' Presidential Conference 2009 in Jerusalem, Indyk said that the Palestinians should not be blamed for...
Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said that Israel’s current opposition leader, then-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria not to accept the peace offering by then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who had offered Arab leader Mahmoud Abbas 95-98% of the territories for a “Palestinian” state. Indyk said that “the Prime Minister was about...
WA today A predictable setback in Gaza Ynetnews Were we surprised by the Goldstone Report and its implications? Did it hit us out of the blue? I, for one, was not surprised. In the midst of Operation Cast Lead, I wrote the following: Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in an interview…if a 'reckless ... Jewish MKs slam UNHRC endorsement of Goldstone Jerusalem Post Source: Report won't halt peace talks...
Caroline Glick writes about how Turkey is going downhill in their backtrack to Islamofascism, and even reminds of something very dumb the Bush government once did: Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis . It isn't that Turkey's behavior changed fundamentally in recent days....
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution, endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, despite efforts by Israeli leaders to block the motion. On Friday, 25 member-states of the council voted for the resolution, six voted against and 11 abstained. The "draft resolution ... is therefore adopted," UNHRC President Alex Van Meeuwen said in Geneva. The sweeping approval...
Breaking News Russia believes it is "counterproductive" to threaten Iran with more sanctions, its foreign minister said. The U.N. Human Rights Council will reopen the debate on the Goldstone report in a special session. An internal Fatah Party memo reportedly says Palestinian hopes in the Obama administration "have evaporated." Tzipi Livni urged Turkey to join moderate elements...
Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Knesset as winter session opens, says battle against UN report into Gaza operation a top priority. 'Hamas are the real war criminals,' he says. MK Zahalka calls out towards him, 'You killed 400 children'. President Peres calls for 'far-reaching decisions ahead of two-state solution' Amnon MerandaYNET News The Knesset opened its winter session Monday, amid its members'...
A videotape of Abbas urging Barak , the Israeli 'defence' minister to continue attacking Gaza is the reason why Abbas deferred the Goldstone report ( according to Al- Jazeera ): Brigadier Eli Avraham played a videotape showing a meeting between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Ehud Barak , the Israeli defence minister. The meeting was also attended by Tzipi Livni , Israel's former foreign...
Al-Jazeera is reporting that the reason 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen acceded to Israel's request to delay the United Nations 'Human Rights Council's consideration of the Goldstone Commission Report is that Israel showed him a videotape in which Abu Bluff begs Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and then-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to continue Operation Cast Lead