“Whenever reconciliation moves a step forward, he takes several steps backward,” Mousa told Ma’an.

He urged Abbas to “leave” because “he isn’t part of the solution anymore, but rather a problem to the Palestinian national liberation project, and poses a huge threat to the Palestinian plight and to the unity of the Palestinian people.”

Palestinians across East Jerusalem say that the violence that is shaking Jerusalem is not an intifada– yet. It is an unorganized Palestinian response to Israeli aggressive actions, including the visits by religious Jews to the Haram al Sharif or Temple Mount in the Old City. But it is not an uprising all over Palestine, as a third intifada would be.

That could begin in the blink of an eye.

Russia and Iran oppose the intervention of a number of Western countries in the internal affairs of other states, State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin said after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, the chairman of parliament Ali Larijani, RIA Novosti reported.

Italienische Tornados waren im Golfkrieg 1991, in den Balkan-Kriegen 1995 und 1999 sowie in Afghanistan und in Libyen im Einsatz gewesen, wie die Zeitung „Il Sole 24 Ore“ berichtet.

The Leader of Iran‘s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said its enemies are spreading Islamophobia by creating armed groups that massacre civilians in the name of Islam.

A scandal has erupted between two allies, the U.S. and Turkey. On a speech delivered on Oct. 2; U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had mentioned Turkey’s relations to organizations like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and had said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regretted foreign fighters’ passage to Syria via Turkey. It was then stated that he apologized to Erdoğan because of this statement. Although two weeks ago he said “I did not apologize,” we thought the issue was closed.

The candidates will be flooded with money from these pro-Israel extremists. (…)

Saban and Adelson are on opposite ends of the mainstream (and narrow) political spectrum. Adelson is a casino mogul who bankrolled the 2012 presidential campaigns of GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Saban is in the entertainment business and is a major Democratic Party donor. But when it comes to U.S. foreign policy and Israel, Saban and Adelson take many of the the same positions, displaying an eagerness for war with Iran and a desire to keep the U.S. alliance with Israel rock-solid.

Naftali Bennett threatens coalition over Jewish nation-state law: The law will pass this coming Sunday – if it doesn‘t, everything will fall apart.

Volker Beck, a senior Green Party deputy in the Bundestag, called for an inquiry into the practices of the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry because they enable the boycott of Israel.Beck, who is president of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group, wrote the Merkel administration on Tuesday, asking what knowledge the federal government has concerning a “boycott of Israeli products” and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s practices.

Israel’s government – as one veteran diplomat conveyed to me several years ago in Berlin – cannot ignore the Left. It is currently the largest opposition party in the Bundestag, with 64 MPs. Faced with an aggressively borderline violent attack last week on Gysi by two Israel haters in the Bundestag, which was enabled by Höger and Groth, the Left has divided into two camps.

Was sagt Stefan Liebich, Obmann der Linksfraktion im Auswärtigen Ausschuss des Bundestages, zum völkerrechtswidrigen Agieren Israels? Nichts. Statt dessen stellt er Kritiker der nahöstlichen Besatzungsmacht in seiner Partei an den Pranger. Zusammen mit anderen Mitgliedern der Linke-Strömung FDS (Forum Demokratischer Sozialismus), Bundesgeschäftsführer Matthias Höhn und der Fraktionsvorsitzenden der Europäischen Linken im Europaparlament, Gabi Zimmer, hat er im Internet eine Kampagne gegen vier Linke-Politikerinnen gestartet.

(12. November) “Die Linke” repräsentiert ungefähr so etwas wie den handzahmsten, devotesten Hauspagen jedweder Lobby von Krieg und / oder allgemeinem Blutvergießen den man sich nur wünschen kann, wenn man denn einen braucht. Weichet von mir, oh Fetisch des Grauens, oh Deppen der Republik, ihr Witzfiguren par Excellence, ihr Untertanen-Blaupausen des politischen Kopfstands bei gleichzeitigem Daumen “hoch”. Von Tel Aviv bis New York höre ich sie wiehern. Oh was für eine Schande…

The idea that any criticism of Israel at all is “anti-Semitic” is one that has been pushed here in the United States for decades. But Jon Stewart, himself a Jew, responded to allegations of anti-Semitism leveled against him with a statement that even Fox News would find it hard to misconstrue: “Go Fuck Yourself.”

Democratic countries define themselves as belonging to all their citizens, not just some of them. Israel is headed in the opposite direction with its Basic Law on Israel as nation-state of the Jews.

Republican pollster Frank Luntz is a guru of selling Israel to the American public, and Jewish Philosophy Place has published a Luntz Power Point that looks like a ransom note but is stuffed with polling data that reflects Israel’s crisis in US public opinion post Gaza. Some tidbits from “Communicating the Truth About Israel”.

“Zionist/Zionism a negative,” Luntz concedes. Here’s the data.

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(10. August) According to testimonies gathered by ACRI during the events of recent weeks in East Jerusalem, the police excessively utilized skunk spray vans in breach of proper procedures and in a manner that caused property damage and personal injury to Palestinian residents. Witness testimony reveals that the police indiscriminately sprayed the skunk liquid towards houses, people, restaurants brimming with people and in crowded streets, causing harm to innocent residents. Evidence suggests that in some cases the skunk repellent was arbitrarily used with no apparent justification and in the absence of any public disturbances.

Two new videos catch a police ‘skunk’ truck spraying East Jerusalem neighborhoods with foul-smelling liquid. The smell was so bad that 4,500 students had to stay home from school.

The boat was followed upon its return journey to Gaza and the forces identified that it had taken on goods. The forces ordered the boat to stop but when it continued to travel they opened fire and hit the boat.

Israel enforces a 6 km offshore fishing zone adjacent to the Gaza coast.

(10. November) Der Linke-Abgeordnete Dr. Alexander S. Neu, Obmann im Verteidigungsausschuss, wirft der Großen Koalition „Zensur“ vor. „Ich bin empört und wütend darüber, wie der Verteidigungsausschuss mit meinen Abgeordnetenrechten umgeht. Das Vertreten einer anderen, als der Koalitionsmeinung führte heute dazu, dass ich von Informationen ausgeschlossen wurde. Das ist weder demokratisch noch ist es ein würdiger Umgang mit einem gewählten Volksvertreter“, heißt es in einer Erklärung des Parlamentariers, verfasst, nachdem in der Obleuteunterrichtung des BND der Punkt Ukraine abgesetzt worden war.

Ramouni was supposed to begin his scheduled 57 route at 9:20 P.M., and at 10 P.M., another driver found his body hanging in the center of the bus from a thin chord. Relatives of the deceased took photos of his body that they claim show signs of violence.

Ramouni‘s family claim he had no reason to commit suicide as he was not in any crises.

„The bus driver committed suicide, there is no other indication other than it was a suicide case,“ police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.