„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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