Posts Tagged ‘ Obama ’

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his decision to suspend for six months the process of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a memorandum to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama said the decision was "necessary, in order to protect the national security interests of the United States."
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel extended an invitation to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to visit the White House next week, during a visit to Jerusalem to celebrate the bar mitzvahs of his son and his nephew. Obama "has asked me to extend an invitation to you to come visit him at the White...
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OPINION - American Jews are periodically tested by virtue of their association with Israel. Operation Defensive Shield, when the European press was filled with reports of 5,000 Palestinian civilians slaughtered – some shot in the head, others buried alive — constituted one such test. Operation Cast Lead and the subsequent Goldstone Report accusing Israel...
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It was inevitable: Jerusalem once again is at the center of political debates and international storms. New and old tensions surface at a disturbing pace. Seventeen times destroyed and seventeen times rebuilt, it is still in the middle of diplomatic confrontations that could lead to armed conflict. Neither Athens nor Rome has aroused that...
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The diplomatic fallout between Jerusalem and Washington following Vice President Biden's supposed insult over Israel's announcement that a construction plan in east Jerusalem had passed one stage of a multi-phase approval process seemed, to some observers, to have been staged. Biden was so gravely slighted by this dastardly act that he stood up the Prime...
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The Jerusalem Municipality’s Local Planning and Construction Committee postponed a meeting scheduled to take place Monday regarding the expansion of the Har Homa neighborhood, in order to spare Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from an uncomfortable situation during his visit to Washington this week. According to reports, 12 new housing units are slated for construction in...
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BREAKING NEWS - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a series of concessions to reconcile with the Obama administration and resume a bomb shipment from the US that had reportedly been postponed in the aftermath of the recent diplomatic tensions between Jerusalem and Washington. In a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
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OPINION – The Palestinian Authority last Wednesday decided to call off a ceremony to name a Ramallah square after Dalal Mughrabi, the female terrorist who led the worst ever terrorist attack in Israel’s history. In 1978, Mughrabi and a team of Palestinian terrorists set out from Lebanon and infiltrated Israel by sea. They proceeded to...
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OPINION - Stones were rained down at worshipers beside the Western Wall on Friday for the first time in nine years. Nine years ago, of course, stones were thrown by Palestinians at the Temple Mount at the start of the second intifada. On Friday night Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli security forces, which he...
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OPINION - Well, President Barack Obama has passed his first year in office, and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is not the only one wondering whether American Jews might be experiencing "buyers' remorse." (For the Jews of Israel, the matter was long ago settled. The president has done nothing to increase his popularity since...
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