„Die Wahlen in Israel sind eine innere Angelegenheit. Zugleich muss die Weltgemeinschaft die Wahlen jedoch als Anlass zur Wiederbelebung eines ernsthaften Friedensprozesses nehmen.

Dies muss auf Basis relevanter UN-Resolutionen, der Arabischen Friedensinitiative, der Umsetzung vereinbarter Verträge einschließlich einem sofortigen Siedlungsstopp mit dem Ziel der Beendigung der israelischen Besatzung und Errichtung des Staates Palästina in den Grenzen von 1967 mit Ost-Jerusalem als Hauptstadt erfolgen,“ so das Außenministerium Palästinas in einer heute veröffentlichen Pressemitteilung.

At a time when we are gravely concerned about a culture of hate which brings with it unprecedented levels of incitement against the 1.6 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, the results of the Israeli elections show the success of a campaign platform based on settlements, racism, apartheid and the denial of the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people. Such a result would not have been possible had the international community held Israel to account for its systematic violations of international law.

Now, more than ever, the international community must act. It must rally behind Palestinian efforts to internationalize our struggle for dignity and freedom through the International Criminal Court and through all other peaceful means.

More than two-thirds of Americans back diplomatic negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, as congressional Republicans continue to call for a role in that outcome, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.

Opposition leader immediately congratulated Netanyahu on his stunning win, but the White House hasn‘t

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Speaking on January 22, 2015 about the multinational insurgents that he deployed Canadian military to fight in the Middle East, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper confidently declared to reporters in St. Catharines, Ontario, that, “If those guys [the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants] fire at us, we’re going to fire back and we’re going to kill them.”

Harper’s comments immediately came under fire by political leaders, who accused the prime minister of deliberately misleading Canadians and their legislators in the wake of the attack on Parliament Hill several months earlier — an attack perpetrated by one mentally ill drug addict.

In considering the series of events, “cui bono,” a Latin adage used by the ancient Romans, comes to mind. In other words, who benefits from these events like the attack on Parliament Hill on October 22, 2014?

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„I congratulate Benyamin Netanyahu for his victory. I look forward to the formation of a new government,“ the statement read.

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Party distributed 2-year-old messages of Kahlon endorsing Likud, well before he formed Kulanu, to potential voters.

All this week, he made us one consistent promise: In his coming term as prime minister, there will be no hope. It is one promise that we have all come to believe he can keep.

I had just walked through East Jerusalem to get to the German Colony. There are no polling places in the Nablus Road or on Salah ad-Din Street. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are governed by Israel, who according to Israel live In Israel, cannot even vote because of the color of their skin. If this is not apartheid, what is? And if this is your idea of a Jewish democracy, why would your children want to be Jewish?

Aleppo city is divided between the Syria military, backed by militia, and a range of insurgent groups including al Qaeda‘s Nusra Front, Islamist brigades and Western-backed rebels.

(13.März) Such visionary regimes do not trade power for a mess of foreign goods. Materialism is not their priority: They often sacrifice prosperity to adhere to ideology.

(16.März) Die Gegner einer Vereinbarung zwischen Iran und den 5+1-Staaten feuern rhetorisch aus allen Rohren. Ein Vertreter Saudi-Arabiens droht indirekt mit der Vorstellung einer atomaren Aufrüstung des Nahen Ostens.

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“The entire world is going to be with us,” Erekat said.

Da Netanjahu die neue Regierung bilden werde, sei „sehr klar, dass es in Israel keinen Partner für den Friedensprozess gibt“, sagte Erekat. Netanjahu war noch kurz vor der Wahl politisch deutlich nach rechts gerückt. Es werde keinen Palästinenserstaat geben, solange er Regierungschef sei, hatte Netanjahu am Montag der Nachrichtenseite „NRG“ bestätigt.

Many Israelis called it the “gevalt campaign,” using a Yiddish expression for alarm. In the final days of a closely fought election race, Mr. Netanyahu threw all political and diplomatic niceties to the wind.

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(18.März) Israel‘s tightly fought elections are claiming their first political victim, as the leader of the left-wing Meretz party says she is resigning in the wake of her party‘s poor showing in the polls.

(17.März) „It doesn‘t matter if it Meretz, Yisrael Beytenu or Bayit Yehudi. The main thing is to go out and vote for a Zionist party because it is important to preserve the Jewish and Zionist character of the state of Israel,“ Liberman said.

“It is the only list that goes against racism, fascism and the right wing,” Tareq Awwad, a leftist college student at Tel Aviv University who backs the coalition told Al Jazeera Tuesday. “It calls for equality between Arabs and Jews, and it promotes women’s rights. It stands for peace and democracy.”

The Joint List appeared to benefit from elevated turnout in majority-Arab areas, which the right-wing Likud, in turn, tried to play to its advantage. In a video clip posted to his Facebook page Tuesday, Netanyahu warned: “The rule of the right is in danger. The Arabs are moving in droves to the polling stations.”

(17.3.2015) The braggadocio displayed by Netanyahu in this video should have raised red flags for the president. Instead, the Obama administration pressed ahead with its ill-fated negotiations, naively believing that Netanyahu—a life-long, ardent opponent of Palestinian self-determination—now shared “the same objective,” in the words of Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell, as the Palestinians.

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In this video, leaked and aired on Channel 10 News in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen speaking candidly back in 2001 at a constituent‘s home about the Oslo Accords, the peace process, Bill Clinton, and the United States.

(15.Juli 2010) This video should have been banned for broadcast to minors. This video should have been shown in every home in Israel, then sent to Washington and Ramallah. Banned for viewing by children so as not to corrupt them, and distributed around the country and the world so that everyone will know who leads the government of Israel.

Selbst wenn er – wie erwartet – wieder zurücksteuert, ist der Vertrauensverlust jetzt schon immens. Bereits in den vergangenen Jahren verloren viele europäische Länder die Geduld mit Israel und erkannten einen palästinensischen Staat einfach an. Nun ist der Schlingerkurs so offensichtlich und opportunistisch, dass Netanyahu es seinen Gegnern tatsächlich leicht macht.

„It is very clear that there is no partner in Israel for the peace process,“ he says. „It is clear now that Israeli society is in favour of burying the peace process, burying the two-state solution and continuing with dictates and settlements.“

Erekat says the election results justify the Palestinian diplomatic strategy to join the ICC and other international treaties and organizations.

That culminated in an ugly row over racism on polling day itself, as the Prime Minister warned that the country’s Arab citizens were voting in “droves” to prevent him winning. In a video clip posted on his Facebook page Mr Netanyahu said: “The rule of the right is in danger. The Arabs are moving in droves to the polling stations. Left-wing organisations are bringing them there in buses.”

„It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, so we say clearly that we will go to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and we will speed up, pursue and intensify“ all diplomatic efforts, chief negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.

Likud said that Netanyahu met with various party leaders and „intends to immediately begin forming a government in order to complete this task within two to three weeks.“

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