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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Paris peace summit

Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 30, 2018, 10:47 am
France must ‘make an example’ of anti-Semites, former PM urges
Manuel Valls calls for tougher implementation of anti-hate laws, distances himself from last year’s Paris peace summit, says Jerusalem is Israel’s capital
By Raphael Ahren
French Ambassador to the United Nations Francois Delattre (screen capture: YouTube)
February 15, 2017, 7:13 pm
France’s support for two-state solution ‘stronger than ever’
As White House appears to step away from longstanding policy, Paris stresses support for Palestinian statehood
By AFP
Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom gives a statement to the media in Stockholm, Sweden, on the Paris terrorist attacks, on November 14, 2015. (AFP/TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery)
February 15, 2017, 4:40 pm
Sweden announces ‘special envoy’ to Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Israel scoffs
FM Margot Wallstrom says new position signals country’s commitment to a resolution
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Marc Ayrault (L) shakes hands with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir during the opening of the Mideast peace conference in Paris on January 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / THOMAS SAMSON)
January 18, 2017, 1:58 pm
Trump cast his long shadow over a tepid Paris conference
Talk of a new peace push buoyed by Obama’s UN abstention gave way to a statement that even Israel could celebrate as a victory
By Suha Halifa
Outgoing US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) gestures as he speaks on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, on January 17, 2017, in Davos.(AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI)
January 17, 2017, 9:25 pm
Kerry: US anti-settlement moves aimed to ‘ignite a debate’
Secretary of state calls Israel’s West Bank policy a ‘recipe for permanent insurgency,’ says he told Netanyahu he’s unilaterally ‘changing peace map’
By ToI Staff
Israel ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council on January 17, 2017 (Courtesy)
January 17, 2017, 7:38 pm
Rebuking UN, Israeli envoy links anti-settlement resolution to terror
Month after passing controversial motion, Security Council reconvenes on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but presents no new texts for vote
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The UN Security Council meeting on December 31, 2016, at the UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP/Kena Betancur)
January 17, 2017, 9:33 am
Fears of new resolution dulled, UN Security Council to gather Tuesday
Jerusalem’s concerns that Paris confab could lead to fresh anti-Israel move faded with Kerry reassurances to Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
MK Tzachi Hanegbi during a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 17, 2017, 6:10 am
Likud minister: Trump could edge Palestinians toward peace
Tzachi Hanegbi rejects annexation bids, says Israel should focus on retaining settlement blocs in final agreement
By Raphael Ahren
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to CNN on January 16, 2017. (Screenshot/CNN)
January 17, 2017, 5:23 am
Kerry defends Obama administration’s record on Israel
Outgoing top diplomat backs US abstention at UN, says it has been a ‘solid best friend’ of Jewish state; warns Trump against moving away from Iran nuke accord
By ToI Staff
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (L), US President-elect Donald Trump (C) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS AND Scott Heppell, AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 17, 2017, 1:31 am
Britain denounced for defending Israel in international forums
After UK blocks EU from endorsing Paris conference communique, Palestinian and European officials accuse Theresa May of aligning with Jerusalem to cozy up to Trump
By Raphael Ahren
President-elect Donald Trump during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, January 11, 2017. (AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)
January 16, 2017, 8:48 pm
Trump: Mideast peace elusive because Palestinians are ‘given so much’
President-elect says ‘psychologically binding’ UN resolution on settlements will make negotiating an agreement ‘much tougher’
By Tamar Pileggi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenary session in honor of the late former president Shimon Peres at the Knesset, on January 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 16, 2017, 8:04 pm
At Peres memorial, Netanyahu says peace won’t come ‘from above’
Opposition leader Herzog eulogizes ‘one of the greatest leaders of the Jewish people in recent generations,’ who died last year at 93
By Marissa Newman
A man carries a newspaper over his head to protect himself from the sun, on a warm summer day in Jerusalem. May 22, 2016. (Zack Wajsgras/FLASH90)
January 16, 2017, 4:54 pm
As PM’s scandals rumble on, papers stick to their playbooks
Yedioth dispenses with soul-searching to go back to attacking Netanyahu, while Israel Hayom attacks Yedioth and Haaretz attacks Mandelblit
By Joshua Davidovich
Eran Lerman
January 16, 2017, 1:30 pm
Eran Lerman
Diplomatic delusions in Paris
To suggest the conference’s international pressure will yield Palestinian goals of statehood is unfair and disingenuous
Regional council chairman Oded Revivi (L) tours with Foreign Ministry Director-General Yuval Rotem (2nd-R) tours in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on November 8, 2016. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 16, 2017, 1:27 pm
Foreign Ministry chief chalks up Paris conference as win for Israel
Despite Israel’s absence from Sunday confab, DG Yuval Rotem says, ‘we succeeded in getting our position across’
By Alexander Fulbright
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