Over a thousand Latvian Nazi veterans marched Tuesday through the freezing streets of Riga as part of a peaceful commemoration for their fellow World War II comrades, who died fighting alongside Nazi Germany.
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Nazi veterans in Latvia march to remember fallen comrades
The European Union’s top diplomat Tuesday called on Syria and Israel to resume indirect peace talks, which have been stalled since last year.
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EU calls for renewal of indirect Israel-Syria peace talks
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Israel’s Titanic moment: Does Obama want Bibi’s head?
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon overnight Monday and told him Israel expects a more objective and constructive approach from the international community.
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Tehran said Tuesday that it has not intervened to block reconciliation between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, rejecting accusations made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah member.
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Iran not blocking Palestinian reconciliation, Tehran says
China has become more concerned about international tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, but remains doubtful that sanctions can resolve the stand-off, the Chinese foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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China ‘more concerned’ over Iran, but wary of sanctions
George Mitchell delays regional visit pending Netanyahu’s reponse to U.S. demands.
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U.S. envoy’s Israel trip on hold as diplomatic crisis deepens
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
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
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
