During the uprising in 2015, you voiced full support for the so-called martyrs, stating that “We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem.” It is tragic that you and many other Palestinian officials defend the use of “martyrdom” language when killing innocent Israeli civilians, many of whom want to end the occupation. In an interview on Israeli television Channel 2 in April 2016, however, you changed your tone when you said, “In one school, we found 70 boys and girls who were carrying knives. We took the knives and spoke to them and said: ‘This is a mistake. We do not want you to kill and be killed…’”

But then, in a sign of official endorsement, the village of Surda-Abu Qash in early 2016 named a park after Muhannad Halabi, a 19-year who was killed by Israeli police following a stabbing attack against Israeli civilians. Your public support of such occurrences only encourages more violence. It’s time for you to be honest with your own public by ending your damaging narrative. The young and impressionable would rather embrace the ‘glory’ of martyrdom than listen to your half-hearted, occasional pleas to abandon violence. Meanwhile, you are undermining your position in the eyes of Israelis as you are portraying yourself as a double-talker and a weak leader who is not in control.

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(16.4.2008) „We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,“ Ma‘ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events „swung American public opinion in our favor.“

Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

I have had an ongoing discussion, over the years, with a friend who has served in positions high up in the government as to whether there was more corruption in Israel today, or, rather, that the police are doing a better job ferreting it out.

Events of the last year have settled that argument. There is clearly more corruption today. The open question remains: Why?

Readouts on the meeting between Greenblatt and Netanyahu were not immediately released by the Prime Minister’s Office or the White House.

The State Department gently chided Israel on Thursday for moving forward with plans to build roughly 2,500 new settlement homes in the West Bank, including housing units for the first new settlement in 25 years.

Asked about Israel’s plans for building the new housing units in the contested area, spokesperson Heather Nauert made a reference to US President Donald Trump’s February request to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “hold back on settlements for a bit.”

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Trump’s son-in-law brings personal message of condolence from US president to relatives of Sgt. Maj. Hadas Malka, before heading to meetings with Netanyahu and then Abbas

The law will „modernise and update the regime for data processing by law enforcement agencies,“ and it is said this will cover data in the UK and that which is transferred abroad.

The government documents don‘t make it clear how this new law will work with the European General Data Protection Regulation due to be introduced in 2018.

The Tri-Faith Initiative is made up of three Abrahamic faith groups who have chosen to be in relationship together as neighbors on one campus, committed to practicing respect, acceptance and trust. Our three members are of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths: Temple Israel, Countryside Community Church (UCC), and The American Muslim Institute (formerly the American Institute of Islamic Studies and Culture).

We believe that we are being led together by our God and that we are all called to be a blessing to each other and our community. As far as we know, our shared commons is the only undertaking of its kind. But it’s a big world out there; we celebrate, support, and join in the flow of interfaith work that is practiced all around the globe.

The location chosen for the sacred endeavor is the old golf course of Highland Country Club, a „Jewish Club“ developed in the 1920s when Jews were excluded from other clubs in the city and around the country.
Today, a new synagogue and mosque stand tall on the abandoned greens and fairways, and construction crews are readying to build a new church.
Further plans include a Tri-Faith Center, which will be completed in 2019 and serve as a shared community space for interfaith classes and activities.

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If Israel keeps controlling Palestinians, ‚inevitable‘ result will be ‚either non-Jewish or non-democratic‘ state, former Israeli PM tells Conflict Zone‘s Tim Sebastian in Deutsche Welle TV interview

„There‘s mounting American pressure to advance a deal,“ Moshe Kahlon told a conference in central Israel on Tuesday. „Something has happened. The American government feels it can reach an agreement, maybe because the good ties with the Israeli government allow Trump more influence than was possible during Obama‘s term,“ he said.

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„While we now may be coming to the realization that the Cyber Age is a revolution of historic proportions, we cannot appreciate yet its full dimensions and vast potential to alter how we think, express ourselves, and define who we want to be,“ Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the court‘s opinion. „The forces and directions of the Internet are so new, so protean, and so far reaching that courts must be conscious that what they say today might be obsolete tomorrow.“