Barak Ravid (Haaretz)
By Barak Ravid (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward In Effort To Restart Talks, Senior U.S. Officials Arrive in Mideast
Two senior Washington officials arrived in Israel on Sunday for talks in Ramallah and Jerusalem aimed at reviving the peace process. Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected claims that the stalled negotiations are the reason behind the delegitimization campaign that he says is being waged against Israel. U.S. National Security Council Middle East…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy To Push Bibi To Take a Stand on Borders, Refugees
U.S. special envoy George Mitchell will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday evening to put forth U.S. ideas for moving the peace process forward. Mitchell is expected to make clear to Netanyahu that the Obama administration wants him to take a position in the coming weeks on the core issues, with…
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Fast Forward Before Speech on Mideast Talks, Sec. Clinton Meets With Livni
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Kadima chairwoman and opposition leader Tzipi Livni at the State Department in Washington on Friday, only a few days after the U.S. and Israel announced that talks between Jerusalem and Washington over a new freeze on West Bank settlement construction in exchange for a set of U.S….
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Fast Forward Bibi: WikiLeaks Proves Israel Is Right on Iran
A raft of controversial diplomatic secrets published by the WikiLeaks group has not damaged Israel and in fact strengthened its position, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. A collection of over 250,000 classified U.S. dispatches released by WikiLeaks caused global diplomatic turmoil and discomfort for the United States, which had warned allies ahead of publication…
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Fast Forward Israel, U.S. Tense as WikiLeaks set To Release Bilateral Communiques
The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv has informed the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks was planning on releasing hundreds of thousands of American diplomatic cables, some of which might deal with Israel-America relations. The Americans said they wanted to let the Israeli government know so it would not be surprised…
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Fast Forward Bibi: No Settlement Freeze Vote Without U.S. Offer in Writing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers on Sunday that he had not yet received a written draft from the United States over a proposed package of incentives in exchange for a freeze on West Bank construction. “We still have not received from the Americans a written summary of the principle understandings,” Netanyahu told eight MKs…
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Fast Forward Residents of Lebanon Border Town Protest Israel’s Decision To Withdraw
Israel’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to withdraw troops unilaterally from a disputed village straddling the Lebanese border. The vote was made as a gesture to the United Nations, but drew residents onto the streets protesting the division of their community. The people of Ghajar, a prosperous hillside town of 2,300 who are members…
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Fast Forward Olmert: Bibi Leading Israel Into Political Isolation
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday harshly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on the stalled peace process with the Palestinians. Speaking at an Industry, Trade and Labor ministry conference, Olmert said that the government’s refusal to accept the United States request that Israel extend a freeze on West Bank…
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