The Simon Wiesenthal Center said Monday it hopes to start building its Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem in the coming months despite a petition to the United Nations to stop construction because the site was once a medieval Muslim cemetery.
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Works begins on Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance, despite protests
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders attending the inauguration of a restored synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday tried to calm tensions surrounding Israeli actions in East Jerusalem.
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Netanyahu at Jerusalem synagogue: Israel allows freedom of religion
Eric Cantor, a leading Republican official in the U.S. House of Representatives, on Monday lashed out at the Obama administration’s recent criticism of Israel over its announcement that it would construct 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem.
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‘U.S. administration is ignoring a host of Palestinian provocations’
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday boycotted Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s speech to Israel’s Knesset to protest the visiting leader’s refusal to lay a wreath at Mount Herzl.
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Lieberman boycotts Brazil president’s visit over Mount Herzl row
At start of regional visit, EU foreign policy chief signals resolve to kick-start negotiations.
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Europe ‘determined’ in push for Middle East peace talks
BRASILIA – Clara Ant is perhaps the most surprising person in the inner circle of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who Monday begins the first visit to Israel by a Brazilian president. An architect and daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Ant is a former Trotskyite who speaks nearly fluent Hebrew and is charming and full of humor. She serves as Lula’s close adviser. Adviser for what? “What not?” she responds with a laugh.
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Comment / Road to Iran nuclear relief may pass through Brazil
The Israeli prime minister apparently believed that by conducting two-track negotiations he could make things coalition-friendly: to both espouse the slogan “two states for two peoples” and sabotage the Palestinians’ ability to set up their state; to both embrace Vice President Joe Biden and give the U.S. administration the finger; to both ask the administration to get Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table and put thumbtacks on his seat once he’s there.
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Netanyahu’s populist rhetoric is jeopardizing Israel
Abraham Foxman has headed the Anti-Defamation League since the 1980s, serving often as an unofficial spokesman for the American Jewish community on issues of anti-Semitism and other affairs.
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ADL chief: Flawed U.S. policy is undermining Mideast peace
Benjamin Netanyahu is absolutely right. Since 1967 no Israeli government stopped building in Jerusalem, east or west. Since the Eshkol government extended Israeli sovereignty over “Jordanian Jerusalem” and annexed the villages around the city, “United Jerusalem” became an inalienable part of the State of Israel. The prime minister is entitled to order the interior minister to delay the discussions at the Planning and Building Committee on the plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood beyond the Green Line. He can ask the mayor to delay presenting his ideas for changes at the Holy Basin. No Zionist prime minister will dare utter the words “I commit to freezing construction in Jerusalem.”
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Akiva Eldar / U.S. row shows Jerusalem is cornerstone of peace
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country’s diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office to project a sense of “business as usual.”
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‘U.S.-Israel relations at their worst in 35 years’
