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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Knesset appears to be expediting efforts towards permitting the legislators to declare a prime minister “incapacitated” by a simple majority vote of 61. The move seems to be a response to the foot-dragging by the prime minister, sponsored by MK (NRP) Zevulun Orlev and Yossi Beilin (Meretz). The preliminary reading is expected sometime this [...]
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American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
by Jerry Gordon Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch sent me two ‘gems’ on how to resolve the Palestinian Refugee ‘problem’. In the first ‘gem’, there is a report that Yossi Beilin, a Member of the extreme leftist Meretz party in Israel’s Knesset, and former Justice Minister in the late assassinated Israeli PM Itzhak Rabin’s cabinet, [...]
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The Last Amazon (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I have never been a fan of Israeli politician Yossi Beilin. Usually his speeches make me cringe and aggravate me to no end but this report in the Jerusalem Post made me smile: Meretz MK Yossi Beilin on Thursday called on European countries to declare how many Palestinian refugees and their descendants they would be willing to absorb as part of any future peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians....
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Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
From Arutz Sheva:The Tel Aviv District Court rejected a request by a group of radical leftists to renounce their Judaism in favor of being registered by the Interior Ministry as "Israelis." The request, filed by 21 Israeli citizens including Gush Shalom founder Uri Avnery and former Meretz MK Shulamit Aloni, asked the court to instruct the Interior Ministry to recognize their nationality as "
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
MK (Meretz) Avshalom Vilan told Israel TV on Wednesday that regardless of one’s political affiliation, we must all realize that the soldiers must be brought home, even when the cost is high as in today’s case. Vilan, a former combatant in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando force, explained “all the past prime ministers who were generals, [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Activists associated with the radical left-wing Meretz Party were apprehended destroying eruv polls on Herzl Boulevard and Andvil Street. The polls were being burned when they were apprehended according to the Kol Chai Radio report. (Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Ynet News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
In letter sent to prime minister, Oron calls on Olmert to allow Kadima to elect new leader who will establish new government
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee Chairman MK (Kadima) Tzachi Hanegbi came to the defense of IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, whose presence at Tuesday’s committee session was challenged by MKs Dr. Yossi Beilin (Meretz) and Limor Livnat (Likud). Hanegbi stated that the attack against Ashkenazi was “unfounded”, expressing his “disgust” with the MKs’ [...]
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P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Raoul Victor has written a long reply to a theoretical text (draft) by Stefan Merten and Stefan Meretz on peer production and its potential to become embedded not just in the production of informational goods, but as the dominant system for material production as well. We are serializing this reply in three parts. Raoul Victor: 1- The possibility [...]
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P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Translation, then comments, from Stefan Meretz of Oekonux. In `issue 31`_ of the magazine krisis_, Ernst Lohoff published a very interesting article_. Title: “Der Wert des Wissens. Grundlagen einer Politischen Ökonomie des Informationskapitalismus” (”The value of knowledge. Fundamentals of a political economy of the information capitalism”). It discusses the question whether digital information goods...
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Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Yesterday: Knesset votes to topple government next weekPrime Minister Ehud Olmert's government survived four separate no-confidence motions on Monday, but factions now numbering 74 MKs have expressed support for dissolving the Knesset. This includes Meretz's five MKs after the faction made a decision Tuesday to support Likud MK Silvan Shalom's bill to disperse the Knesset currently supported by Likud,...
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Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government survived four separate no-confidence motions on Monday, but factions now numbering 74 MKs have expressed support for dissolving the Knesset. This includes Meretz's five MKs after the faction made a decision Tuesday to support Likud MK Silvan Shalom's bill to...
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Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
A few years ago Thomas Friedman wrote a column, “Wanted: Fanatical moderates.” It was advocating the Geneva Accords, a PR exercise undertaken by Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbo and a number of others. The point of the exercise was to lay out an example of what an Israeli Palestinian peace treaty might look like. The [...]
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The Blog at 16th and Q (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
JTA’s new blog on Jewish philanthropy The Fundermentalist (get it') kicks-off with a bang by scooping Yossi Beilin’s claim that he invented the Birthright program sending kids on free trips to Israel courtesy of mega-philanthropists Michael Steinhardt and Charles Bronfman. What impressed us what not the scoop itself, but where the Fundermentalist got it: Beilin, speaking [...]
