January 11, 2013

Date: 
January 10, 2013

Gaza's housing minister said Thursday that the United Arab Emirates has donated $50 million to build a housing project for Palestinians released from Israeli jails.

Article Author(s): 
Tal Niv
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 



Palestinians erect outpost in E1 zone

Article Author(s): 
Elior Levy
Media Outlet: 
Ynetnews
Date: 
January 11, 2013

A group of 200 Palestinians, backed by foreign activists, have been erecting an outpost in the disputed E1 zone, near Ma'aleh Adumim, since the early hours of Friday morning.



Obama administration: PLO’s U.N. elevation broke no laws

Media Outlet: 
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 

The Obama administration said the Palestinians' ascension in U.N. membership status did not violate U.S. law.



Palestinians protest use of 'skunk' liquid

Article Author(s): 
Mark Weiss
Media Outlet: 
The Irish Times
Date: 
January 11, 2013

 

Palestinian activists claim the use by the Israeli security forces of a foul-smelling liquid, dubbed “the skunk”, against protesters and, in some instances, private homes, may be putting lives at risk.



Financial Crisis in the West Bank

Media Outlet: 
The New York Times
Article Type: 
Editorial
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 



EU should re-think its border assistance role

Article Author(s): 
Mahmoud Abu Rahma
Media Outlet: 
Ma'an News Agency
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 9, 2013

The European Union must abandon the idea of redeploying its border monitoring mission on Gaza's border with Egypt, raised again by EU officials last month.

Article Author(s): 
Yossi Verter
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 11, 2013

 

The writer and Israel Prize laureate Amoz Oz harshly attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Labor chairwoman MK Shelly Yacimovich.



Politics and the English language: What we can learn from Naftali Bennett’s international interviews

Article Author(s): 
Anshel Pfeffer
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

Each of the senior politicians called up to the stage at Tuesday's foreign policy debate conducted by the Israel Project at the Hebrew University, scurried up to the podium as their name was called. Only Habayit Hayehudi leader, Naftali Bennett, paused for a moment, turned around, and waved to the audience before stepping up. "It was a short gesture, but there was something about it that distinguished him," a friend who was there told me.



Bibi, ask not what you can do for you

Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 

In another country, in a place that is normal, the in-depth interview with former Shin Bet security service director Yuval Diskin, published in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper last weekend, would have cost a sitting prime minister the election.



Israeli extremists' victory

Article Author(s): 
Randa Haidar
Media Outlet: 
Ynetnews
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

Winds of rightist political extremism are blowing through the election campaign in Israel these days. Some two weeks before the elections, it appears that the Israeli arena is becoming more extreme and divided.



A Palestinian-Jordanian confederation

Article Author(s): 
Uri Savir
Media Outlet: 
The Jerusalem Post
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

Prominent Israeli Knesset candidates, many of them most probably part of the next coalition, are in these days of vigorous campaigning attempting to highjack us into their fata morganas (mirages) regarding the future of the West Bank; be it Naftali Bennett with his ridiculous proposal to annex 60 percent of the West Bank to Israel; or



An Israeli Ballot With No Good Options

Article Author(s): 
Hillel Halkin
Media Outlet: 
The Jewish Daily Forward
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 

Israel doesn’t need to hold elections. It only needs to ask for whom I’d vote, because I’ve never voted for anyone but winners. I was for Golda in 1974, for Begin in 1977, for Rabin in 1992, for Netanyahu in ’96, for Barak in ’98, for the Sharon of the Likud in 2000 and the Sharon of Kadima in 2005, for Ehud Olmert in 2006, for Netanyahu again in 2009. You can’t be more infallible than that.



Enduring Failures of Israel's 'Decision Makers'

Article Author(s): 
J.J. Goldberg
Media Outlet: 
The Jewish Daily Forward
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 

One of Israel’s worst-kept military secrets is the simmering tension between the country’s top security professionals and their civilian bosses, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The headlines surface regularly and tend to look the same, so it’s easy to miss the big picture.



Netanyahu and Israel's Crisis of Democracy

Article Author(s): 
Ben Caspit
Media Outlet: 
Al-Monitor
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 10, 2013

 

Ron Prosor is one of the most distinguished ambassadors in the history of the Israeli Foreign Service. He was the No. 3 man at the embassy in Washington. He was director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Silvan Shalom; he was a highly respected ambassador to the United Kingdom, and he is now in charge of Israel's public diplomacy efforts as Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations.



A different Israel after January 22

Article Author(s): 
David Horovitz
Media Outlet: 
The Times of Israel
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
January 9, 2013

 

You may wish to celebrate. You may be plunged into despair. But signs are the country to which you will wake up on January 23 will be a different Israel.


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