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Netanyahu declines Obama’s request to expand settlement freeze

The Israeli media reported that premier Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed a request made by US president Barack Obama to expand settlement freeze.

Voices for peace?

When Time Magazine carried an article on "Why Israel Doesn't Care about Peace", a whole coterie of American Zionist supporters reacted as if Time had become anti-Semitic.

12 Palestinians killed since the outset of direct peace talks

Israeli occupation authorities are responsible for the deaths of 12 Palestinians since direct peace talks kicked off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in early September, the Quds

Netanyahu calls for resuming settlement activities quietly

Israeli media sources said that the Israeli premier's office asked the cabinet ministers not to make statements about the end of settlement freeze and demanded the right-wing parties to cancel

Israel kills as it talks

Israeli occupation forces have killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank in what eyewitnesses and neighbours described as "a cold-blooded murder" and "extrajudicial" execution.

Gaza-bound aid ship due to set sail from Indonesia soon

The Deputy Speaker of Indonesia Parliament Dr. Muhammad Anis Matta said preparations are being made to send a naval convoy from Indonesia to Gaza to bust the Israeli siege.

On Jewish loyalty

Gilad atzmon considers the meaning of “loyalty” in Jewish discourse, against the background of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as an exclusively Jewish state

In whose name do they talk?

A second round of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are taking place under the auspices of Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in Egypt's Red Sea

Settlers build near Palestinian villages on eve of peace talks

A human rights foundation said Israeli settlers kicked off a series of new settlement activities the night of the outset of peace talks between de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas

“A framework agreement” between Israel and Palestinians: precursor to talks without end

Uri Avnery highlights the pitfalls of a “framework agreement”, which the parties to the US-mediated talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas have pledged to sign within a year, arguing that