Israeli former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, pictured on December 3. A British court issued an arrest warrant for Israel’s former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, on war crimes charges but withdrew the order when she cancelled a previously scheduled trip to the country. Israel is warning that the move will harm relations between the two nations. Former Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, has staunchly... 

The European Union’s foreign ministers on Tuesday softened their call for a division of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that the city should be shared but that the two sides should negotiate the details. The statement, issued in Brussels, marks a diplomatic victory for Israel in a contest with the Palestinians for international support. In the absence of direct, U.S.-mediated... 

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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... 

Bay Area residents attempted a citizen’s arrest of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, while he gave a speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco on 22 October 2009. Twenty-two people were arrested for challenging Olmert directly and demanding he be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Olmert has also faced protests at Tulane University,... 

Rabbi Manis Friedman has come under intense criticism for appearing to call on Israel to massacre Palestinians. A prominent Chabad rabbi is seeking to clarify remarks in which he renounced “Western morality” and seemed to call on Israel to massacre Palestinian civilians. “The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way,” wrote Rabbi Manis Friedman in the current issue of Moment magazine.... 

A so-called racist video posted on US-based internet site YouTube is yet to be removed, despite a Perth man being charged for allegedly uploading the “anti-Semitic” film. Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan today said his officers had so far been unsuccessful in their negotiations with YouTube to have the controversial video pulled from the site, but inquiries were continuing. Maylands... 

An old Palestinian man walks past the cruel Zionist ”separation” wall in Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ was born and later fought the Roman and Jewish high priest’s (Sanhedrin) oppressions of the poor. This contempory wall behind the old man sports a poster of a mocking Jew from some French “art” project, more than likely a Jew of a Eastern European (Ashkenazi) descent — bitterly ironic... 

Israel’s new ultra-nationalist foreign minister has said it is not bound by a US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians. “The Annapolis conference, it has no validity,” Avigdor Lieberman said. He was speaking at a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry, prompting his predecessor Tzipi Livni to interrupt and diplomats to shift uncomfortably. At Annapolis,... 

As we speak, thugs calling themselves Israeli “Defense” Forces (IDF) are now invading the GAZA Strip on the ground with tanks and armored personnel carriers; just so they can kill more and more Palestinians close-up after bombing and strafing them for days with the latest American fighter-bombers, Apache helicopters, predator drones — all totally impervious to any possible form of self-defense...