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| May 1, 2016
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Report: German official says Berlin to rethink policy of blind-support for Israel

 

According to ‘Der Spiegel’, coalition member reveals how Berlin has grown frustrated with Israel’s PM, who is perceived as opposed to a 2-state solution.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Germany is beginning to re-examine its longstanding policy of near-automatic support for Israel in light of what it perceives as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s disinclination to move toward a two-state solution to the Palestine question.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. – Photo: REUTERS

According to a report in the prestigious magazine Der Spiegel, diplomatic officials in Berlin are taking a hard look at a decades-long policy of “unconditional support” for Israel in light of continued settlement expansion in the West Bank.
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| April 10, 2016
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Israel’s El Al comes in next to last on landing punctuality

 

With only Pakistan Airlines less punctual, a report by Flystats shows that in March of this year, 45% of El Al flights arrived more than 15 minutes late, with an average of 44 minutes late.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

Israel’s national air carrier, El Al, is running late: Some 45% of the company’s flights for March 2016 landed over 15 minutes late at their destinations, putting the airline next-to-last in a report published by the company Flystats, which tracks real-time information about airlines and airports.

An El Al aircraft – Photo: KOKO

El Al flights landed an average of 44 minutes late in March. Continue Reading »

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| April 8, 2016
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NGO Monitor Report: UN agency manipulates data to demonize Israel

 

NGO Monitor’s Report: “OSHA [Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] rarely, if ever, cites relevant Israeli gov’t information, including detailed statistics published by COGAT, the IDF, or the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” and it’s website shows “videos [that] are devoid of all context and are aimed solely at demonizing Israel.”

By HERB KEINON

 

NGO Monitor on Thursday released a report highly critical of a UN agency deemed so biased in Jerusalem that the Foreign Ministry, according to diplomatic sources, stopped cooperating with it in any meaningful way several years ago.

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick.

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| March 8, 2016
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WSJ Report: Obama considers initiating UN resolution to restart peace process

 

Although the White House has repeatedly vetoed such resolutions in the past, the US president is mulling using the UN Security Council to apply pressure to restart negotiations.
• White House ‘surprised’ at Netanyahu’s decision to cancel Washington trip later this month, after have been invited to meeting with Obama.

By Ynetnews and Reuters

 

US President Barack Obama’s administration is considering a United Nations Security Council resolution to serve as a blueprint for Israeli-Palestinian talks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The US has repeatedly vetoed such resolutions in the past.

PM Netanyahu and President Obama in the Oval Office – Photo:Avi Ohayon

That move would be just one element of a plan to receive the peace process, according to the Journal. Continue Reading »

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| October 19, 2015
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Petition with over 24,000 signatures demand MSNBC fire biased, misleading reporter

 

Ayman Mohyeldin, employed by MSNBC, came under fire for reporting from the scene Israeli police shot & killed an unarmed Palestinian, immediately after a terrorist knife-attack in the Jewish capital.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

A petition calling for the firing of MSNBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, who came under fire after suggesting Israeli police shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian man in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem last week, had garnered over 13,000 signatures by Tuesday. The petition was started over the weekend.

Bassel Sidar was shot dead outside of the Old City’s Damascus Gate in a failed stabbing attack. Border Police in the area identified a suspicious looking Arab man, a 19-year-old Hebron resident, wearing camouflaged clothing, sitting by the east Jerusalem gate’s entrance. Continue Reading »

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| June 29, 2015
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Israel Mulls Severing Ties With Biased/Infamous UN Human Rights Council …Again

Army Radio reports that PM Netanyahu told Liberman, that following the release of another biased Gaza report, Israel considering an end in all cooperation with the overtly anti-Israel UN body.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said Monday that Israel is mulling whether or not it should continue cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council, after the body issued a report last week in which it said that Israel’s actions in last summer’s Gaza conflict may constitute war crimes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. – Photo: AMIT SHABAY/POOL

Army Radio reported that in a closed-door meeting, Netanyahu referred to the UNHRC commission of inquiry which issued the report as “a hypocritical committee.” Continue Reading »

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| June 19, 2015
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New Washington Report Lists Terror Proxies Funded by Iran That Targets Israel

New State Department report calls Israel a “committed counter-terrorism partner” throughout 2014, detailing operations taken by the Israeli Navy and IDF.

By MICHAEL WILNER

 

WASHINGTON — Despite facing costly obstacles from the Syrian civil war, Iran continued its arming and funding of terror proxies targeting Israel throughout 2014 largely unabated, the US government found in a report released on Friday.

Iranian navy ship. – Photo: REUTERS

The State Department report— an annual accounting of organized terrorism worldwide— asserts that Iran has continued, if not expanded, its operations beyond its historical focus on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, to a limited number of operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as to “various groups throughout the Middle East.” Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2015
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Israel’s Prime Minister: UN war-crimes report on Gaza war proven ‘baseless, a waste of time’

An unofficial report independently compiled by a group of retired Western generals confirms Israel’s internal report released today, on IDF’s conduct during ‘Operation Protective Edge’ proving the UN’s ‘baseless blaming’ of Israel.

By Reuters

 

Israel will issue a report on Sunday arguing its 2014 Gaza offensive was lawful, a move aimed at pre-empting the release of findings of a UN war crimes investigation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed as a waste of time.

Netanyahu during Sunday's government meeting. (Photo: Ohad Zoigenberg)
Netanyahu during Sunday’s government meeting. – Photo: Ohad Zoigenberg

 

Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that “whoever wants a baseless automatic accusation against Israel can waste their time reading the UN report.” Continue Reading »

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| May 25, 2015
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Economist Reports: Israel’s new right-wing gov’t harms its foreign relations

Report in UK based publication details series of political challenges before Israel’s latest coalition gov’t, implying PM Netanyahu is leaning further right.

By Ynet

 

The influential magazine The Economist, claimed in an article published Sunday that the guidelines of the new Israeli government further undermine the already fragile relations between Jerusalem and the world.The Economist page on facebook

The article analyzes the sensitive situation of Israel’s foreign relations, detailing a list of difficulties with which Netanyahu is dealing with these days, starting with the French initiative to recognize a Palestinian state, then the possible European Union boycott of products made in the settlements, and concluding with the demand to suspend Israeli football from international play. Continue Reading »

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| May 12, 2015
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Pew Survey: Hindus & Jews are most highly-educated in US

The Pew survey revels a 6.7% increase in the amount of Americans who do not affiliate with any religion, but having Islam as the fastest-growing religion, with a 0.5% growth.

By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN

 

The Pew Research Center on Tuesday released its annual report on religion in the United States which showed that Hindus and Jews were the most highly-educated people in the country, as well as those with the highest incomes on average.

Young Jews rally in support of Israel in New York, July 20. – Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS

According to the 2014 US Religious Landscape Study, 59 percent of Jews in the US said they were college graduates, while 77% of Hindus also said they were holders of academic degrees. Continue Reading »

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| February 10, 2015
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Pew Report: Jews Continue to Leave Europe

The report estimated that from 9.5 million European Jews in 1939, to 3.2 million Jews in 1960, falling to 2 million by 1991, and then to 1.4 million in recent years.
• Anti-Semitism appears to be on the rise on the continent, with some speaking of a new ‘exodus’.

By Ynetnews

 

The last several decades have seen a precipitous drop in the number of Jews living in Europe, according to a poll published Monday by the Pew Research Center.

Poster for the anti-Semitic rally

The report estimated that there were 3.2 million European Jews in 1960, which fell to 2 million by 1991, and to 1.4 million in recent years. Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2014
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REPORT: Israel Number 4 Among US’s Top Most “Unacceptable” Countries

Last week, media survey by ‘Foreign Policy’, found that US State Department finds Israel almost as unsavory as Syria, Iran & North Korea!

By David Lazarus

 

The US State Department in 2014 condemned Israel as one of the most “unacceptable” countries in the world, just behind North Korea.

Secretary of State John Kerry hosts Twitter chat – St Dept Image

According to an article published last week by Foreign Policy, over the past year the Obama Administration State Department cited Israel for “unacceptable behavior” more times than Pakistan, Russia, Egypt, China, Afghanistan and Iraq. The article examined how many times a country’s actions were condemned as “unacceptable,” and Israel came in fourth, right after Syria, Iran and North Korea.

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| November 21, 2014
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Video: Who do Berkeley students think the most dangerous, Israel or Islamic State?

Jewish filmmaker waves an Israeli flag & also an Islamic State flag at UC Berkeley campus to see which draws the ire of the university’s students.

By Ynetnews

 

What happened when filmmaker Ami Horowitz decided to wave the Islamic State flag at UC Berkeley? And what happened when he tried to wave Israel’s flag at the university’s campus? Students at the California research university, it seems, are completely indifferent towards the Islamic State, and very passionate in their views against Israel.

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In a three-minutes-long video, Horowitz first waves the black Islamic State flag in different locations on campus, shouting slogans defending the militant group’s operations. Continue Reading »

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| November 17, 2014
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Unable to Enter Gaza, UN Gaza Investigative Committee Hears Testimonies in Jordan

Jerusalem has forbidden entry into Gaza and the West Bank by the UN team which is seeking possible war-crime charges against Israel during the last Gaza war.

 

The United Nations committee investigating possible war crimes by Israel during last summer’s Gaza war has spent the past week in Jordan, listening to the testimonies of victims’ families and civil society organizations, Ma’an Palestinian news agency reported on Sunday.

Rubble of destroyed buildings from the 50-day conflict between Hamas and Israel.

Rubble of destroyed buildings from the 50-day conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Shejaiya, Gaza Strip, October 12 ,2014. – Photo: AFP

The committee, which was appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council, has been denied entry to the West Bank and Gaza by Israel. Continue Reading »

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| November 12, 2014
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Two Defense Reports Conclude: IAF is Ranked World’s #1 Air Force

Latest research carried out by two respected military analysts claim Israel’s Air Force is the best air force on the planet, and the IDF still holds top position as the most dominant army in the Middle East.

By Joe Nathan

 

The Israeli Air Force is “the best in the world,” and the IDF is the most powerful land force in the region, according to new military research projects carried out by Patrick Megahan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Military Edge Project, and Chris Harmer, a senior naval analyst at the ISW (Institute for Study of War).

F15 I,'Ra'am' ('Thunder') A multi-purpose long-range fighter jet, mainly used for attack and interception strikes. - Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit

F15 I,’Ra’am’ (‘Thunder’) A multipurpose long-range fighter jet, mainly used for attack and interception strikes.

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