O: I believe in dialogue with other parties. If there was a party prepared to meet with us halfway– for example, I will be glad to meet them halfway and maintain our differences in the rest of the cases. I also say to the Jewish-Israeli public and all the marginalized people, the poor: vote for what you see.

We will be with you. I say to those disabled: vote for what you want, we will vote with you. I say to the pensioners: vote for who you want, we will be with you.

As I heard this and heard the sea of Jews in Rabin Square chant Bibi Bibi, I had to wonder: Why did Obama ever meet with this man, let alone meet with him more than a dozen times? Why didn’t he just say, You know my number, when you are willing to cut a deal, call me? The US press which also presumes to support the idea of two states never asked this question.

Trailing his centre-left opponent Isaac Herzog in opinion polls, the three-term leader has sought to shift the focus away from socioeconomic issues and on to security challenges, saying he alone can defend Israel.

Moscow invited the U.N. envoy for Syria to a second round of meetings scheduled for the beginning of April between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government, Interfax reported on Monday citing a deputy foreign minister.

There is no need for parliament approval if Iran and the P5+1 negotiators achieve a comprehensive nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic parliament speaker, Ali Larijani said.

Referring to military spending by the government, the IMF dossier acknowledges the “risks to the outlook are exceptionally high and predominantly on the downside. Fighting in the East may resume and spread. This would unravel confidence, increase the direct loss of economic and export capacity while military spending may rise sharply.” This is an admission that the war is what the IMF charter labels “measures destructive of national or international prosperity.”

Whoever walked around Rabin Square and the surrounding streets Sunday night could not be confused about the makeup of the crowd of 25,000 at the right-wing rally. The majority of the audience was young people wearing knitted skullcaps. There were some Likud placards at the rally, but the dominant color was the green on the signs of Habayit Hayehudi.

In an extraordinary message posted on Facebook, the prime minister wrote: “The government of the right is in danger. Leftist activists and the foreign and international media are conspiring to get Tzipi and Buji [Tzipi Livni and Isaac Herzog, the joint leaders of the Zionist Union] elected via illegitimate means, using innuendo and foreign money.

“Those foreign organizations understand that if Tzipi and Buji are in charge, they will give up everything. They’ll withdraw to the 1967 boundaries and they will divide Jerusalem — just as Tzipi and Buji promised they would do. They know that unlike Tzipi and Buji, the Likud and I will never surrender to pressure.”

On Saturday, the former British prime minister reportedly met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the Red Sea resort city Sharm el-Sheik to discuss a job change, according to the newspaper.

Kerry war zuvor in der Schweiz eingetroffen, wo sich Sarif bereits seit Sonntagmorgen aufhielt. Das Treffen der beiden ist für den frühen Montagmorgen in Lausanne geplant.

„I‘ve always said whatever comes out of these talks, we will want the same,“ said Prince Turki al-Faisal, who has previously served as head of Saudi intelligence and Riyadh‘s ambassador to Washington and London but is no longer a government official.

Minister of Development Cevdet Yılmaz announced on Saturday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be visiting Tehran on April 7 to sign off on twelve separate agreements.

(8.März) Not everyone in Turkey is pleased about Ankara breaking ice with Riyadh, fearing consequences of creating rivalry with Iran.

„To get the Assad regime to negotiate, we‘re going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating,“ Kerry continued, noting that the process was „underway right now.“

“Assad has no place in Syria’s future,” a Foreign Office spokeswoman said, in response to the comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

But State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said later that Kerry, in an interview with CBS News that aired on Sunday, was not specifically referring to Assad. She reiterated that Washington would never negotiate with the Syrian leader.

Wie ich im oben erwähnten Artikel bereits berichtet habe, gibt es einen jüdischen Abgeordneten im iranischen Parlament. Diese Vertretung der Juden ist in der iranischen Verfassung garantiert.

Israel’s Arab citizens make up 20 percent of the country’s population. Their representation in Israel’s parliament has been called a “political sideshow. But as Mar. 17 elections approach, that is changing.

The fact that the Joint List is likely to be the third largest slate in the next Knesset means they cannot be ignored. All the Israeli papers, analysts and news broadcasters are suddenly forced to relate to “the Arabs” — the 20 percent of the population that are normally out of sight and mind when Israelis goes to the polls.