Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, winding up a visit to Tunisia, on Saturday blamed Iran for blocking reconciliation between his Fatah organization and rival Islamist faction Hamas.
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What does the Arab (or Muslim) street think? Whom does it hate and whom does it admire? These questions have reverberated among us from the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser to Hassan Nasrallah today. But who speaks on behalf of this “street”? Due to the lack of reliable public opinion polls, authoritarian rule and media outlets that are trained what to say, it’s not surprising that the assessments of the man on the street are so incomprehensible and based merely on impressions and gut feelings.
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According to the well-known adage, we need to choose whether to be part of the problem or part of the solution. Visiting the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, I observed that the organization has apparently chosen to be both. Founded in 2006 with a mission of “strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe,” the UNHRC is today composed of only 49 percent “free” member states, as classified by the democracy watchdog Freedom House. The remaining small majority includes such states as China, with the highest execution rate on earth, and Saudi Arabia, which still employs flogging and amputation as means of punishment. In the latest absurdity, the council will vote in May on Iran’s request to take its place among the organization’s 47 member states, and some predict it has a reasonable chance of attaining one of the four seats allotted to countries in the Asian region.
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In exclusive interview, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tells Haaretz it’s time for more serious Israel-Palestinian talks.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday sought guarantees from Washington that it would pressure Israel to cancel its plan for 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, Palestinian media outlets reported.
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National Council of Young Israel President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, Esq. today criticized comments made by Vice President Joseph Biden regarding the Jerusalem District Planning Committee’s decision to authorize 1,600 new units of housing in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.
In a statement issued by the White House, the Vice President said, “I condemn the decision [...]
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Cairo has severely toughened its stance on exit permits for Hamas leaders from Gaza and is demanding that Hamas unconditionally sign a reconciliation agreement with Fatah prepared by the Egyptians.
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“Our relationship with the Americans is above all else. It is an alliance that has survived complicated periods, and I had no intention of harming those ties, or to challenge the American administration, or to present obstacles to this important visit by the vice president,” Shas chairman and Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Thursday in an interview with Haaretz on the crisis with Washington over the decision to authorize 1,600 housing units in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.
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