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Topic: Palestinian statehood

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December 11, 2012
1:48 pm

Soldiers face off with Palestinian activists on the road between Ramallah and Nablus on November 19 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel raids Palestinian NGO offices amid heightened tension

From the web Reuters: Activists claim IDF action is payback for Mahmoud Abbas’s UN statehood bid

December 11, 2012
9:50 am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Liberman calls for Israeli troops to respond with lethal fire when attacked by PA police

Foreign minister also compares Europe’s silence on Mashaal’s call for jihad against Israel to its inaction during Holocaust

By Ron Friedman

December 10, 2012
6:26 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Hanukkah reception with foreign reporters, in Jerusalem, on Monday, December 10 (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu blasts international community for staying quiet amid Hamas calls for Israel’s destruction

PM says ‘deafening silence’ of European governments and PA President Abbas over Mashaal’s comments this weekend is unacceptable; EU does issue statement, soon after PM’s critique

By Raphael Ahren and AP

December 10, 2012
1:56 pm

Casting Palestinian statehood in moral terms

Israel sidestepped the only issue that matters: whether the Palestinians are entitled to statehood

By Judea Pearl

December 9, 2012
7:40 pm

Gabi Ashkenazi, then IDF chief of staff, in October 2010 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Former IDF chief indicates Israel should withdraw from West Bank unilaterally

Israel must set own borders, take long view toward peace talks, Gabi Ashkenazi says

By Philip Podolsky

December 9, 2012
2:12 pm

Ethiopian woman participating in a prayer service outside Jerusalem in 2011. A report alleges that Ethiopian women were coerced into taking long-term birth control before arriving in Israel (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / Flash90)

Rallying, politicking and miracles

Mashaal sets foot in Gaza; the IDF may have already set foot in Syria; and a wounded veteran hopes for another miracle

By Yossi Nachemi

December 7, 2012
10:14 pm

Citizens of the world?

On B’nai Jeshurun and the Palestinian U.N. status

By Gil Ribak

December 6, 2012
2:23 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Thursday Dec. 6 (photo credit: AP/Wolfgang Rattayl)

‘We agreed that we disagree’ on settlement expansion, Merkel says after meeting with PM

In Germany, Netanyahu insists Israel will retain controversial E1 corridor ‘under any future peace deal’

By Ron Friedman and AP

December 6, 2012
1:39 pm

King Abdullah II of Jordan, right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, walk past honor guards prior to their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Dec. 6 (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Jordan’s King Abdullah II receives royal welcome in Ramallah

Visit provides high-profile boost to the Palestinian UN bid slammed by Israel, US

December 6, 2012
12:33 am

A Palestinian boy riding a donkey near the E1 settlement corridor, with Ma'aleh Adumim in the background, on Wednesday. (photo credit: (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Palestinians to call on Security Council to stop settlement building

Move will put Washington in bind, but US still likely to veto anti-Israel resolution

December 5, 2012
7:32 am

Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Despite anger at UN gambit, Canada to continue aid to Palestinians

$300-million commitment in funding for security and humanitarian aid is important and will remain, says FM spokesman

December 4, 2012
2:58 pm

An actress dressed up as former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir performs at the Knesset in February (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knee-deep in diplo doo-doo

Israel’s press builds up the drama surrounding the European condemnation of settlement expansion plans, the nurses continue their strike, and judges tell actors to butt out

By Ron Friedman

December 3, 2012
2:15 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Jerusalem in 2010 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Clinton raps Palestinians, Israelis for letting peace slip away

Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities, but Israelis should show more empathy, says outgoing secretary of state

By Ron Kampeas

December 2, 2012
9:14 pm

PA President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN General Assembly on Thursday, November, 29 (photo credit: courtesy MFA)

Why did the Czechs, Palau and half-a-dozen others stand with Israel in the vote on ‘Palestine’?

Along with the US, Canada, Panama and the Czech Republic, four tiny Pacific island nations — with a combined population that’s less than that of Petah Tikva — spared Israel still greater ignominy last Thursday. Could it be that they simply like us?

By Raphael Ahren

December 2, 2012
4:35 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to thousands of Palestinian supporters in Ramallah upon his return from the UN on Sunday, Dec. 2 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

‘We now have a state, Abbas declares, returning triumphant to Ramallah

President tells crowd of thousands ‘We won’ and dedicates victory to Arafat and martyrs

By Asher Zeiger and AP

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