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Barak takes credit for settlement freeze

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:03:20 GMT

Labor chairman Ehud Barak claimed credit for last week's security cabinet decision to freeze West Bank construction in a speech to Labor's executive committee at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds on Sunday, and called for his party's rebel MKs to see the error...
Source: Jerusalem Post

"We will have to kill them all": Effie Eitam, thug messiah

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:15:12 GMT

Jim Holstun and Irene Morrison, The Electronic Intifada, 25 November 2009 Colonel Efraim (Fein) Eitam was only following orders when he told his troops to beat Ayyad Aqel in 1988. They beat him to death.
Source: The Electronic Intifada

'Not enough to find out about an attack when it is in progress!'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:35:08 GMT

Danny Yatom, director of Israel's external intelligence service Mossad from 1996 to 1998, today runs the Global Strategic Group that advises governments and large companies on security issues.
Source: Rediff

Abe Pollin, Wizards’ owner and major philanthropist dies at 85

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:57:37 GMT

Pollin might not have been the best owner of a basketball team but as ESPN said: "Pollin will be remembered for several things. He was the NBA's longest tenured owner. He was the guy who fired Michael Jordan.
Source: JTA

Clnton's faulty memory - part ii

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:03:07 GMT

"...[not] a single week's gone by [since Yitzhak Rabin's assassination] in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years we would have had a comprehensive agreement for peace...
Source: Soccer Dad

Down to the wire

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:45 GMT

On the night of October 9, 1945, security at the Atlit Detention Center near Haifa - a camp for "illegal" Jewish immigrants in Mandatory Palestine - was breached; 200 detainees, mainly Holocaust survivors and recent arrivals from Europe, were released...
Source: Jerusalem Post

Obama's tough Mid-East conflict lessons

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:40:55 GMT

The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers how the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has taught US President Barack Obama hard and humiliating lessons. The land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has great sunsets.
Source: BBC News

MJ Rosenberg: Obama's Mideast Failure: It's The Lobby, Stupid

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:13:17 GMT

George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another. But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer.
Source: Huffington Post

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:50:35 GMT

Former US president Bill Clinton (C-red necktie) walks past the Dome of the Rock mosque during his tour of Islam's third holiest shrine, the Al-Aqsa mosques compound, in Arab east Jerusalem on November 15, 2009.

Quoted in 'Clinton: Rabin's death prevented peace'

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:58 GMT

Bill Clinton said in Ynetnews:

In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of Yitzhak Rabin and miss him terribly

Quoted in 'Palestinian American US Army Vet equates Senator Joe Lieberman with Jewish Extremists'

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:55:57 GMT

said in Red County:

In Israel we did not kill the murderer of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and we didn't kill any of the people who created sedition at the time ... We have freedom of speech and it’s very difficult to know what is dangerous and what is not. Jewish law does not provide for us to go out and kill someone for what he's saying. You are only allowed to kill someone if it is very obvious that he's about to kill you and you have no other way to save your life other than by killing him.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:10:22 GMT

Travellers sit in front of a photograph depicting the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and Jordan's late King Hussein, at the Allenby Bridge Crossing July 9, 2009.

Brothers Einstein: Great Humanitarians -- Yitzhak Rabin

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:35:34 GMT