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Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos met with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman soon after his arrival in Jerusalem on Monday. Lieberman gave him the report – “Gaza Operation Investigations: Update” – that Israel presented to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday that dealt with some of the war crimes allegations that appeared in the Goldstone Report.Spain abstained in the UN General Assembly vote last year that endorsed the report.“Israel is a ... |
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The Knesset House Committee discussed Balad MK Said Naffaa’s request for diplomatic immunity, which comes in the wake of Attorney General Menachem Mazuz’s indictment of Naffaa for visiting an enemy state, meeting with a foreign agent, and making contact with terrorist organizations. The stormy discussion lasted for over five hours. During the deliberations, MK Anastassia Michaeli of Israel Beytenu voiced her firm disagreement aganist leaving MK ... |
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asked the Israeli Foreign Ministry to send a police contingent to Haiti, to fight growing anarchy there. The plea comes as the streets of earthquake-ravaged Port Au-Prince have reportedly become battle zones between gangs and looting is rampant.Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman consulted with Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovich and Aharonovich spoke to Police Chief Maj. Gen. Dudi Cohen. They decided to send 100 police to the ... |
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Speaking at a joint press-conference with Norwegian FM Jonas Gahr Store, FM Lieberman took the long view on Israeli gestures to the Palestinians and concluded that they have yielded little fruit and that it was time for the Palestinians to make some gestures to Israel."Since this administration came into office, we have made endless gestures. We have given the Palestinians the option of coming to direct negotiations. First, of course was the prime minister’s speech, the ... |
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For the first time, an Israeli Cabinet minister has made an official visit to the United Arab Emirates – as part of the IRENA conference on renewable energies.Minister of Infrastructures Uzi Landau is participating in the Preparatory Commission of IRENA, The International Renewable Energy Agency. He addressed the agency’s third session on Sunday in the capital of the UAE, Abu Dhabi.“The fact that I have been invited is evidence that we can have genuine cooperation in the ... |
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Doing 'whatever it takes' to defeat terrorWhile the world was still reeling from the botched terror attack on an American passenger jet, the High Court of Justice proclaimed that the IDF could no longer ban Palestinians from traveling on Route 443. Court President Dorit Beinisch and Justice Uzi Fogelman called on the army to find alternate ways to protect motorists from the terror attacks which had been rampant on this road before the ban. Beinisch and Fogelman thought that five months ... |
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MK Anastassia Michaeli walked out of a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee on Monday, 4 January. Ms. Michaeli objected to the discussion of the provocative trailer for the satire program “Eretz Nehederet”. “It is upsetting to see how minor issues and popularism push the really important matters off the agenda,” said the member of Knesset. She continued, “Violence is a major problem almost everywhere ... |
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Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch demanded that MK a-Sanaa (United Arab List – Ta’al) be charged with supporting a terrorist organization after he used his cell phone to allow Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to speak publicly at an anti-Israel demonstration. The event was held at the Erez Crossing, through which dozens of Arab residents of Gaza enter Israel on a daily basis in order to obtain medical treatment at Israeli hospitals.The demonstration, organized by the ... |
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