Thursday 11th March, 2010
Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement
Israel News.NetUS Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem.
Arab League Pulls Talks Support Over Israeli Settlements Issue
VOAAnnouncement of Israeli Settlement Plan Overshadows Biden Visit Arab League chief Amr Moussa says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told him he will not enter indirect talks with Israel due to i...
Israeli Novel, Collection Of Russian Poetry Win Prizes For Best English-language Translation
Star TribuneNEW YORK - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation. Gail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Trans...
Yossi Sarid / The Obama Administration Asked For The East Jerusalem Fiasco
HaaretzDon't believe Benjamin Netanyahu for one moment when he says he "never knew." The Jerusalem planning committee is only too aware of what the bosses want, and the government has decided to step up cons...
Poll: Half Of Israeli High Schoolers Oppose Equal Rights For Arabs
HaaretzNearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same ...
Israeli Settlement Plans Give Obama Little Room To Maneuver
The Miami HeraldJERUSALEM -- President Barack Obama faces what may be the biggest test to date of his credibility in the Middle East after Israel greeted Vice President Joe Biden with an announcement that it will co...
Israeli Novel, Russian Poem Collection Win Prizes
The Miami HeraldNEW YORK -- An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.Gail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Translated Book ...
Eu Parliament Backs Goldstone Report
Jerusalem PostThe Foreign Ministry attacked the European Parliament’s endorsement on Wednesday night of the Goldstone Report, which has accused Israel of possible war crimes in Gaza.By a slim majority of just ove...
Analysis: From Smooch To Smack In 24 Hours
Jerusalem PostThe vice president of the United States comes here wanting to embrace Israel, and – during the first 24 hours of his visit takes pains to publicly express his affection for the country – and end...
No Talks Unless Israeli Settlements Halted: Arab League
Channel News AsiaCAIRO: There should be no Israeli-Palestinian talks, direct or indirect, unless Israel halts plans to build 1,600 settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, the Arab League said Wednesday. Arab League c...
Israeli Novel, Russian Poem Collection Win Prizes
The Seattle TimesNEW YORK — An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation. Gail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Translated...
Israeli Novel, Russian Poem Collection Win Prizes
Associated PressGail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction. It was written in Hebrew and translated by Dalya Bilu for Melville House Press.
Israeli Settlement Plan Slaps Us In The Face
China Daily/enpproperty--> RAMALLAH, West Bank: An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the US failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened P...
[03/10] Us-israel Row Highlights Quandary Over Settlements
Find LawRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestini...
Israeli Novel, Russian Poem Collection Win Prizes
Tampa Bay OnlineGail Hareven's novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction. It was written in Hebrew and translated by Dalya Bilu for Melville House Press.
Israeli Housing Plan Threatens Potential Peace Talks With Palestinians
People's DailyPlans for a new housing project in a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem have angered Palestinians and Americans, left a red-faced Israeli prime minister and forced a senior Israeli government minis...
Israeli Minister Apologizes For Bad Timing Of East Jerusalem Expansion Plan
People's DailyIsraeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai Wednesday apologized for the raging storm generated by his ministry's approval for 1,600 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, saying that he had no intention to emb...
Israeli-arab Joint Nuclear Program? Not Yet
People's DailyIsrael wants to build nuclear power plants to take the country away from expensive and polluting fossil fuels, according to its National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau.Landau made his comments dur...
Un Chief Condemns Israeli Plans To Expand Settlements
People's DailyUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Wednesday Israel's announcement that it is building 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem."The Secretary-General condemns the approval of plans f...
U.s.-israel Row Highlights Quandary Over Settlements
WHP CBS 21An Israeli flag decorates the right-wing Jewish settler complex of Beit Yonatan as it stands tall over the crowded Palestinian housing which typifies March 2, 2010 the East Jerusalem neighborhood of S...
Biden Scolds Israel Over Settlements
The NewsThursday, March 11, 2010 RAMALLAH, West Bank: US Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinian...
Israel Planning 50,000 Housing Units In East Jerusalem
HaaretzSome 50,000 new housing units in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line are in various stages of planning and approval, planning officials told Haaretz. They said Jerusalem's construction plans...
Harel & Issacharoff / The U.s. Will No Longer Turn A Blind Eye To Israeli Settlements
HaaretzEven Mahmoud Abbas would have been hard put to dream up a greater victory for Palestinian diplomacy than the one handed to him Tuesday on a silver platter by the Israeli Interior Ministry. The condemn...
Campaign Planned Against Israel Boycott
Jerusalem PostThe next few days will see the first meeting in Israel of a group of scholars and activists who are planning a new, aggressive Jewish response to the international “Boycott, Divestment, Sanction” ...
Pa Sources: Indirect Talks Will Happen
Jerusalem PostThe PA will resume indirect talks with Israel in the coming days, despite the threats and strong condemnations coming from Ramallah over an Interior Ministry committee’s approval of plans to build 1...
Ramat Shlomo Residents Don’t Understand What All The Fuss Is About
Jerusalem PostThe haredi enclave of Ramat Shlomo in northeast Jerusalem was buzzing with commotion on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after an Interior Ministry decision to approve 1,600 new homes in the neighborhood...
'another 7,000 Homes Planned'
Jerusalem PostWhile international condemnations continued to pour in on Wednesday night regarding the Jerusalem Regional Planning and Building Commission’s approval of 1,600 new housing units in the northeast Jer...
Ministers Nix Bill To Cap Expenses On Their Trips Abroad
HaaretzA bill that would have capped costs on ministerial junkets abroad is dead. The Knesset yesterday voted down the proposal that would have empowered the finance minister to lay down rules to supervise m...
Israeli Food Sector Controlled By Too Few Hands, Mks Say
HaaretzThe Israeli food industry is much too concentrated among a few companies, according to most speakers yesterday at the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee. The committee met to discuss market failures i...
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