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An Oscar-nominated documentary about this West Bank hamlet has managed to infuriate people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide.
An Oscar-nominated documentary about this West Bank hamlet has managed to infuriate people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide.
Peacemaking with the Palestinians, once the main issue by far in Israeli politics, has been strikingly absent from the campaign for next month's general election.
An Israeli lawmaker says Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry likely will visit Israel in October or November.
Israel will begin sending some diplomats back to Egypt this week to evaluate the safety of restoring full relations after a mob ransacked the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on Friday, an Israeli official said Sunday.
The aid convoy for Gaza organized in May 2010 was a humanitarian initiative with people from more than 30 countries (including the United States and Israel) in ships sailing under the flags of several nations. While there were private Turkish citizens among participants, the flotilla was not organized or even encouraged by the Turkish government, as Danny Danon conjures without evidence ("Why Turkey should apologize to Israel," Commentary, Aug. 15). Quite the contrary.
As it rolls forth down the asphalt Monday, President Obama's three-day bus tour of the Midwestern heartland already has earned a nickname. It's "Greyhound One" according to observant wags at Lucianne.com and elsewhere in the conservative blogosphere.
Donald Trump threatened a third-party presidential run, Herman Cain and Israeli lawmaker Danny Danon stirred up the crowd, and Jon Huntsman Jr. and Tim Pawlenty got polite receptions at the second annual Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington.
Dozens of Jewish settlers broke ground on a new day-care center deep inside the West Bank on Sunday to celebrate the end of the government's 10-month-old construction slowdown at midnight — symbolically renewing settlement activity that threatens to derail peace talks with the Palestinians.
"I think there will be groups who are against Israel no matter what," Danon said. "This is one example of the price of keeping a strong democracy. We are not interfering in the contents of the movies that are being produced in Israel."
Lawmaker Danny Danon, who collected thousands of signatures demanding that Ms. Zoabi's candidacy be disqualified, accused the court of "backing the Marmara terrorist rather than naval commando fighters."
