“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.