The Haaretz newspaper said on Friday that Moscow refused an American overture calling on the international quartet to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and give it the right to annex the major settlement outposts in the West Bank to its borders. The newspaper said that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton proposed during telephone calls a week ago with the quartet members to issue a joint statement... 

Israeli authorities deny Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin permission to visit the impoverished coastal sliver of Gaza which has long been under an Israeli siege. Speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs on Friday, Martin said no substantive reason had been given for the refusal. “I just wanted to go in myself and see Gaza,” he said according to the Irish... 

In the current climate, perhaps given: — America’s police state laws; — no due process or judicial fairness for any state target; — mass illegal surveillance; — targeting dissent; and — the power of the Israeli Lobby over Congress, the media, academia, the clergy, and most anyone confronting them. During Israel’s war on Gaza, only 5 of 535 congressional members... 

An international Israeli conspiracy to kidnap children and harvest their organs is gathering momentum as another shocking story divulges Tel Aviv’s plot to import Ukrainian children and harvest their organs. The story brings to light the fact that Israel has brought some 25,000 Ukrainian children into the occupied entity over the past two years in order to harvest their organs. It cites a Ukrainian... 

In his lively introduction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the recent General Assembly in Washington, Leonid Nevzlin reminded the audience just how unexpected and unusual a role this was for him. “There was a time not so long ago when I couldn’t even imagine standing here in this place, in this country, only blocks from the decision-making capital of the world, with this responsibility,”... 

JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the... 

The U.N. General Assembly is likely to approve a resolution that urges Israel and the Palestinians to carry out independent investigations of alleged war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter within three months and calls for possible Security Council action if they do not. The 192-nation world body has scheduled a meeting Wednesday to consider a resolution adopted by the Geneva-based Human... 

Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans too. Yet Americans should worry even more. Israel’s “legitimacy” will not last. Of course, that assumes its legitimacy was deserved. That issue also is now called into question in light of the consistency of Israeli behavior over the past six decades. The emerging issues are these: When and how will the recognition of Israel’s nation-state status... 

Israel is denying Palestinians fair share to water while giving Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories unlimited supplies, Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday, October 27. “Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor-quality subsistence-level quantities of water has become a luxury that they can barely afford,” said Donatella... 

For the second consecutive year, Israeli President Shimon Peres has convened an imposing conference: Facing Tomorrow (Jerusalem, 20-22 October 2009) where 3,500 people were registered. Among the key speakers were Jewish ecologist Baron David Mayer de Rothschild; Skype CEO Josh Silverman (Jewish); the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales (crypto Jew); spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (who teaches... 

Former presidential candidate Nati Meir was detained by special forces last night (Mon/Tues) after police found fake banknotes in his office. The politician recently announced he was withdrawing from the presidential race. Police searched his office after a complaint was made that he had lent others fake 500-Euro banknotes. An organized crime squad found two fake banknotes in Meir’s office during... 

An Israeli Foreign Ministry official rebuked Turkey’s acting ambassador Thursday over a TV series Israel says depicts Israeli soldiers murdering children. Naor Gilon, deputy director for the Western Europe desk, said he told Turkish envoy Ceylan Ozen the series was “incitement” and could spark attacks against Jews visiting Turkey. Gilon met Ozen at ministry headquarters in Jerusalem... 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nation’s General Assembly. Delegates from the US, Israel and EU stormed out as Iran’s leader was speaking.  Read More »

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Iran will “blow up the heart of Israel” if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran’s most powerful military force — the Revolutionary Guard — warned Friday. Cleric Mojtaba Zolnour, who is the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in the Guard, said that if a U.S. or Israeli missile lands in Iran, Iranian missiles...