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| September 26, 2014
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Jerusalem circumvents Arabs bid criticizing Israel’s ‘atomic arsenal’ at UN nuclear assembly

3-month long Israeli world-wide diplomatic campaign thwarts Arab League proposal demanding Israel join global anti-nuclear weapons pact.

 

Member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency rejected a resolution initiated by Arab League nations criticizing Israel’s alleged nuclear abilities.

Dimona nuclear power plant

The nuclear power plant in Dimona – Photo: Archive

The resolution, which is non-binding, condemns Israel, calls on it to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and make its nuclear facilities subject to international supervision. Fifty-eight countries voted against the text and 45 states for. The representatives of many nations chose not to attend the vote.

A senior official in the Foreign Ministry noted that Arab League nations decided this year to make a special effort in order to pass the resolution, which was rejected last year as well.

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| July 9, 2014
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Jordan & Iran issue similar condemnation of Israel’s ‘barbaric’ Gaza operation

Arab League summons UN action on Israel’s  #OperationProtectiveEdge, as White House spokesman Josh Earnest says: “We support Israel’s right to defend itself against these vicious attacks.”

By News agencies

 

 

Jordan, one of just two Arab countries to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, on Wednesday demanded an immediate halt to deadly Israeli air raids in Gaza, raids it called “barbaric.” Similar comments were made by Iran, a Hamas ally.

Smoke & debris rise after an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip seen from the Israeli side of the Israel Gaza Border, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. - Photo AP

Smoke & debris rise after an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip seen from the Israeli side of the Israel/Gaza Border, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. – Photo: AP

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama urged both sides in the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinians to show restraint and not act in a spirit of revenge, in a German newspaper article to be published on Thursday. Continue Reading »

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| April 9, 2014
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Abbas worried Israel will freeze tax revenues to PA in retaliation to unilateral moves

 

PA official says Abbas will ask the Arab League for financial support in the event of Israeli economic sanctions.

By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Tuesday that PA President Mahmoud Abbas will appeal at an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Wednesday for political and economic support in the event of Israeli punitive measures.

Abbas

Abbas at Arab League summit – Photo: REUTERS

Malki’s comments came after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier this week issued a stern warning to the Palestinians about their application to join 15 international treaties and conventions and any future steps the PA might take outside the negotiating process to shore up legal standing as a state. Continue Reading »

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| March 12, 2014
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Israeli persimmons taken into custody from Saudi market

 

Arab League’s total boycott of Israel was put into place back in 1948, although its enforcement varies from country to country.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON
 

Saudi authorities seized 140 kilos of persimmons from Israel at a local market near the border with Jordan, local media reported.

Israeli Persimmons found in Saudi Arabia. – Photo: Courtesy

The fruit had Israeli stickers on it and was found in the city of Qurayyat, in northern Saudi Arabia.

The head of the municipality environment health department, Abdulaziz Al-Masaed, said that authorities acted on information that Israeli fruit was being sold in the market. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2014
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Arab League supports PA’s refusal to recognize Israel as Jewish state

 

Israeli PM Netanyahu responded to Abbas’ refusal saying “It is absurd to think that in an agreement in which we will recognize the nation-state of the Palestinian people they will not recognize the Jewish state.”

By i24NEWS

 

The Arab League on Sunday has given its seal of approval to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to meet Israel’s demand to recognize it as a Jewish state.

Arab League - Photo: AFP

Arab League – Photo: AFP

The issue is a key Israeli demand, which will likely be included in the framework agreement that US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to present to the sides at the end of April. Continue Reading »

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| January 19, 2014
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Canada & U.S. urge UNESCO not to postpone ‘Land of Israel’ exhibit

UNESCO postponed Jewish exhibit in response to pressure by Arab League.

Simon Wiesenthal Center plans to display panels if UN fails to open exhibit.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

The United States and Canada called on UNESCO to rescind its sudden decision to suspend an exhibit on Jewish ties to the Land of Israel – due to open at its Paris headquarters on Monday – in response to a protest by Arab states who fear it could damage the peace process.

UNESCO headquarters

UNESCO headquarters – Photo by Unesco.org

“UNESCO’s decision is wrong and should be reversed,” said US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Friday. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2014
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UNESCO postponed Jewish ties to Land of Israel exhibit saying it could harm peace process

 

UNESCO has postponed a Jewish exhibit 2 years in the making, entitled “People, Book, Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel,” after a last minute protest from the Arab League.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

Less than a week before the planned opening of an exhibit chronicling 3,500 years of Jewish ties to the Land of Israel, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has postponed the event, slated to open at its Paris headquarters Monday, out of concern that it could be harmful to the peace process.

UNESCO advocates for Syrian youth education, another example how the Arab League controls UNESCO

UNESCO advocates for Syrian youth education, another example how the Arab League influences UNESCO

“UNESCO is deeply committed to the successful outcome of the peace process in order to achieve stability in the region and we have a responsibility in ensuring that current efforts in this regard are not endangered,” wrote director-general Irina Bokova on Wednesday to the exhibit’s cohost, the Los Angels-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Continue Reading »

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| December 21, 2013
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Arab League: Not one Israeli in future Palestine & requesting UN to investigate Arafat’s death

 

Arab League chief speaks at a conference of Arab foreign ministers, convened at the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to support PA interests.

By & Reuters

 

 

Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Araby said on Saturday that there could be ‘not one’ Israeli soldier in the territory of a future Palestine. At a conference of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, al-Araby – alongside the Libyan foreign minister – was tasked with presenting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with the Arab stance on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

A conference of Arab foreign ministers in Cair

A conference of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, Saturday 21, 2013.-

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| September 8, 2013
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Amos Gilad: Israel not perceived as enemy by Arab Sunni bloc

 

Israel’s Defense Ministry’s political-military director said the Sunni axis is successfully keeping extremist jihadi terrorism at bay and goes on to praise Egyptian Defense Minister al-Sisi’s for his counter-terrorism efforts in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN
 

 

A powerful Middle Eastern axis of Sunni states has taken form in the region, which “does not view Israel as a sworn enemy,” and has successfully kept extremist jihadi terrorism at bay, Maj.-Gen. Amos Gilad, Director of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau at the Ministry of Defense, stated on Sunday.

Amos Gilad [file]

Amos Gilad – Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC) by Hanay

Speaking before the Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s international summit at Herzliya, Gilad said that Israel “won’t ever be accepted as a formal member” of the Sunni axis, but that the states that make it up all view the US as the sole super power and that their regional policies are indirectly beneficial for Israel.”This

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| May 26, 2013
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Arab League nothing less than League of illusions

Op-ed:
Saudi peace initiative was actually introduced by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. The Arab League’s actions have always failed. Its initiatives to intervene in Syria failed, as in North Africa, Iraq and Lebanon.

Guy Bechor

 

Representatives of the Arab League are amending the “Saudi initiative” and turning it into a “peace” treaty with Israel. Certain elements in the Jewish state rushed to praise the idea, even going as far as claiming that the new initiative is important to Israel. Really?

Arab League conferenceThe Arab League does not exist in reality. The new initiative was actually introduced by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in order to increase Cairo’s influence in the Arab world. Continue Reading »

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| May 13, 2013
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Fatah accepts Arab League’s peace proposal

Fatah Central Council welcomes both the US & Arab League’s efforts to revive peace process.

But list of unreasonable preconditions demanded on Israel makes any initiative moot. 

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

 

The Fatah Central Council has accepted the Arab League’s latest proposal for land swaps with Israel.

A Palestinian shouts as he holds a Fatah flag at the funeral of terrorist Maissara Abu Hamdiyeh.

A Palestinian shouts as he holds a Fatah flag at the funeral of terrorist Maissara Abu Hamdiyeh. – Photo: Mussa Qawasma/Reuters

Following a meeting in Ramallah late Saturday, members of the council also welcomed US efforts to revive the peace process with Israel.

The announcement is seen as a boost for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been facing criticism from some Fatah officials for supporting the land swap idea.

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| May 1, 2013
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Labor prepared to join coalition gov’t for peace treaty

MK Ben-Eliezer says if Bayit Yehudi pulls out of coalition over Arab League Peace-Plan, Labor interested in replacing party to advance peace initiative.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

 

Labor repeated its commitment to enter the government, if necessary, should  it come close to reaching a peace treaty on Wednesday, a day after the Arab League said it would be open to land swaps.

Opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich (Labor) said Tuesday night that her party will “support positive, significant steps toward reaching an agreement.”

Labor Party Convenes

Labor Party Convenes – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

“If we are on the cusp of singing a treaty and [Economic and Trade Minister Naftali] Bennett threatens to quit, we won’t be the opposition, and will reexamine entering the government,” a spokeswoman for Yacimovich explained Wednesday.

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| May 1, 2013
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Arab League sweetening Israel-Palestinian peace plan brings rift to gov’t

Arab League suggestion puts Netanyahu in bind, straining both internal coalition parties, external pressure, as both domestic & int’l figures laud proposal. 

Associated Press

 

The Arab League‘s decision to sweeten its decade-old proposal offering comprehensive peace with Israel has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bind and swiftly exposed fissures in his new government.

In Washington Monday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Al Thani tried to allay some of the Israeli concerns. Speaking on behalf of an Arab League delegation, he reiterated the need to base an agreement between Israel and a future Palestine on the 1967 lines, but for the first time, he cited the possibility of “comparable,” mutually agreed and “minor” land swaps between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| April 30, 2013
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Arab League offers new Peace Plan motivated by “a strategic choice”

 

Arab League agrees to potentially dramatic changes in Saudi’s suggested plan.

Justice Minister Livni: “This is a positive development” ,but no comment yet from the Prime Minister’s Office.

The Associated Press, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

While the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem had yet to respond on Tuesday to a renewed Arab League endorsement for Israeli-Palestinian peace, Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau (Likud-Beytenu), a staunch opponent of the two-state solution, poured cold water on the League’s proposals.

Tourism Minister Uzi Landau – Photo: Lior Mizrahi

“They’re offering us Auschwitz borders with minor adjustments,” Landau said, invoking former Foreign Minister Abba Eban’s famous phrase warning against a return to indefensible pre-1967 borders.

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| December 30, 2012
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Arab League Sec-Gen: Palestinians will advance statehood status at UN

Is the Arab League Secretary-General trying to muster the int’l community to intervene & impose a solution to the conflict between Israel & the Palestinians?

By News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Two decades of talks with Israel have been “a waste of time” and Palestinians will soon take a new statehood bid to the U.N, Arab League chief: Palestinians will advance statehood bid in UN Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby said on Saturday.

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday. – Photo: AP

“We will return to the U.N.

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