A community portal about Israel with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The State of Israel is a country in the Western Asian Levant, on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon on the north...
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A community portal about Israel with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The State of Israel is a country in the Western Asian Levant, on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon on the north, Syria and Jordan on the east, and Egypt on the south-west. It has a population of over seven million people. Israel declared independence in 1948 and is the world's only Jewish state, although Israeli citizens include many other ethnic and religious backgrounds. Israel is the most industrially developed country in the Middle East and the region's only liberal democracy.
J. Grant Swank, Jr. Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama has guaranteed his Isalmic compatriots in the Middle East that the Palestinian Authority will get what it wants, no matter what the Jews say. Jewish dwellings in the West Bank will go. Period. The Boy speaks and it is done. This continues to frighten Americans who daily see in the U.S. his dictatorship growing wider and wider. The Congressional demented Dems assist grandly. Obama’s egocentricity swells as his shadow government czars... Read Full Story
The United States has complained to Israel over rules that keep Palestinian-Americans from entering Israel, officials said Thursday. A travel update posted by the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem says that for some time, Israel has not permitted Palestinians who also hold American passports to enter through Israel's Ben-Gurion international airport, requiring that they use the Allenby Bridge land crossing from Jordan directly into the West Bank. Since spring this year, travelers using the Israeli... Read Full Story
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Fourteen-year-old Jum'a Ismail lives 50 km (30 miles) from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport. Juma'a's horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the occupied West Bank with "Birthright Replugged" on a trip taking Palestinian refugee children to Israel to visit the villages of their ancestors. "It's an attempt to get out, while they still can... Read Full Story
The United States said Wednesday it had complained to Israel about restrictions on the travel of US citizens of Palestinian origin, calling the measures "unacceptable." The State Department said that Israel has been issuing entry stamps for some travelers, mostly those of Arab ancestry, stating that they are only allowed in the Palestinian Authority and cannot transit through Israel. "We have made it quite known to the Israeli government ... that we expect all American citizens to be treated... Read Full Story
I'm going to back up my friend Chaim over at Freedom's Cost , who's taking some flack for posting about a truth-telling video the jihadists are trying to get pulled off of YouTube... about Palestine. In my book -- Truth is TRUTH. I always tell the truth and always have facts to back me up. I have never accused anyone of anything without backup. Ever. And I am getting damn sick, too - of people telling me how "horrible" Israel is. I know what it's like to be accused of being abusive - usually... Read Full Story
BEN-GURION AIRPORT, Israel (Reuters) - Israel is ready to open peace talks with Syria immediately and without preconditions, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday after talks with U.S. President Barack Obama. The offer followed Obama's first White House meeting with the Israeli leader, who said he agreed on the need to widen the peace process across the Arab world but stopped short of embracing the declared U.S. goal of Israel accepting there should be a Palestinian state in... Read Full Story
Israel's defense minister said Saturday he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will endorse the creation of a Palestinian state during his upcoming meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington. It would be a significant shift for the Israeli leader, who has made clear in the past that he does not think the Palestinians are ready to rule themselves. But that position has put him at odds with long-standing U.S. policy that supports Palestinian statehood as the cornerstone of... Read Full Story
US envoy George Mitchell has met with Israeli leaders seeking to launch immediate talks on core issues of the Middle East conflict amid deep disagreements between Washington and the Jewish state over settlements and the two-state solution. Mitchell's visit on Tuesday comes days ahead of a key speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which the hawkish leader is due to lay out his cabinet's policies on the stalled peace process the US administration has been trying to restart. The envoy... Read Full Story
For a sneak preview of PM of Israel Netanyahu's proposal when he meets with Obama this coming week in Washington, it is now being reported that Benjamin Netanyahu won't back a Palestinian State on his US trip, which won't sit well with Obama, who is pushing for a two-state solution. This is sure to create increased tensions between Israel and the United States, but I for one am thrilled that Mr. Netanyahu, who unlike Obama, has a solid grip on Israel and Iran as it pertains to the Middle... Read Full Story
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will continue to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank despite calls by main ally the United States to stop. The hawk also referred to a "Palestinian state" for the first time since re-assuming his post on March 31, but stopped short of backing the principle that is the cornerstone of international Middle East peace making efforts. "I have no intention to construct new settlements, but it makes no sense to ask us not to answer to... Read Full Story
