The feeling among senior officials is that the US administration is this time very serious about forcing Netanyahu to either cancel or postpone the Ramat Shlomo project indefinitely.
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Analysis: For PA, Ramat Shlomo brouhaha is a godsend
Two UK companies offer tour of concentration camp alongside rafting, paintball, clubbing for youth celebrating last night of being single
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Stag night: Strippers, beer, Auschwitz
Druze rioters from Galilee town of Kisra set antenna alight, throw stones, call abusive slogans. Har Halutz residents ‘disappointed’ by Druze behavior
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Druze: ‘Death to Jews’ over cell phone antenna
Referring to east Jerusalem building plan, Cairo official calls for continued international pressure on Israel to prevent ‘provocative actions’. Jordan’s King Abdullah warns against unilateral measures that will ‘change Jerusalem’s identity, threaten holy sites
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Egypt: Israel’s actions prove it isn’t interested in peace
PA leader says Iran is impeding efforts to reach a deal between Fatah and Hamas.
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Abbas: Iran hampering unity talks
Ambassador Rav-Ner says desecration of Holocaust memorial at site of former labor camp in Plaszow ‘disgrace to Jews and to Poles who risked their lives to save them’
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Israel decries Holocaust desecration in Poland
New York – I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s government rubbed his nose in some new housing plans for contested East Jerusalem, the vice president [...]
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New York – NY Times OpEd: Israel Is Drunk And The U.S. Should Not Let Them Drive
Obama political adviser says plan to build 1,600 housing units in east Jerusalem neighborhood an ‘insult’. White House spokesman: Israelis know what they have to do in order to build trust
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White House: Israel construction plan hinders peace
On EU foreign ministers’ pastoral retreat, Kouchner questioned about progress in imposing sanctions on Tehran. Frenchman says move unlikely to be actualized in coming months
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French FM: UN Iran sanctions may take until June
Citing Israeli oppression of Muslims in territories, what they called Jewish excesses in previous inaugural ceremony, Egyptian authorities cancel Ben Maimon synagogue’s reveal
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Egypt cancels unveiling of restored synagogue
