israel issues

Pretty huge announcement out of Israel: This is going to cause some issues in US politics as well!

Just to ensure that nobody in the Middle East can fail to notice that USA sees itself as above everyone else, beyond criticism and discussion, too powerful to be prevented by anyone whosoever from doing whatever it pleases, USA moves its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. How helpful this slap...

Bibi is under criminal investigation for fraud. "Fake News" accusations in 3..2..1.. From The Guardian: Why does that sound so familiar?

So, according to Bibi... Source So what happens next? Is this kind of undiplomatic language merely an attempt at bullying or is he seriously saying that the two countries are now at war? Is this the new Trumpian form of politics of bluster or what?

If you're talking about the Golan Heights, is it okay to point out that Israel captured it in a defensive war, and has been willing to trade it back for almost 50 years in exchange for a comprehensive peace with Syria like they have with Jordan and Egypt, and that it's Syria that's been...

I thought it might be prudent to create a thread focusing on current events as they unfold in relation to The State of Israel. Ron Dermer - Israel's Ambassador to the United States and his stirring address of hope for the future! Despite all the terror and destruction engulfing the Middle...

Barghouti: 'The Third Intifada has already begun' Exactly what the Middle East needs right now. Will "the West"'s favorite apartheid state be able to use the opportunity of everybody being distracted by the events in Syria for a little "mowing", like they did last year when they started their...

http://www.israelemb.org/washington/ConsularServices/Pages/consular-services.aspx Is this precautionary in light of imminent terrorist attacks expected... or as claimed, a culmination of a long standing dispute...

This is a continuation of the General Israel/Palestine discussion thread.

I just learned that the Israeli government passed a law last night that makes calling for a boycott against an Israeli company by anyone in Israel or in a region controlled by Israel actionable by lawsuit. For example, if a Palestinian X calls for a boycott of Israeli company Y in an illegal...

This thread is for general discussion relating to Israel and Palestine. While it is not intended to encompass all Israel/Palestine discussion, and other threads may be started in relation to specific events in the region, please limit general political discussion about Israel and...

Details here. Agrees, on the whole, with what I noted, from my days of living there. Perhaps, as I noted before, the correct way is to declare no more peace talks will be made, since the so-called "peace" process is just an attempt to deliver land into the hand of the corrupt, genocidal PLO or...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3921620,00.html Power to the people! :)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139374.html I am going to assume that this racist law will not pass. If I was a non-Jewish MK, I would find such an oath highly offensive. The current oath, requires all MKs to swear loyalty to the laws of the State of Israel. That should be sufficient...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1133616.html there is absolutely NO religious or historical reason why the Arab areas of East Jerusalem can't belong to Palestine and the Jewish areas of East Jerusalem belong to Israel. The Arab areas will become the capital of Palestine and the Jewish...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1131258.html this is what more then a few Likudnicks in Israel are saying. President Obama, in order to get peace talks going again, demanded that Israel suspend settlement construction, even if temporarily. Not one country on Earth considers ANY of the...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125311.html Lets be honest folks, while settlements and terrorist attacks against civilians are not morally equivelant, in terms of the Israel/Palestine conflict, they are indeed politically equivelant. The Palestinians have stopped their terror attacks...

Testimony at the UN Col. Richard Kemp, UK http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nln...923&ct=7536409 …..Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than...

Well, would it undermine the legitimacy of Israel? [How so?]

This is a question that's bugged me for a while, and I can't find the information necessary to answer it. Historically, the U.S. gives more aid to Israel than any other nation, and Israel is not a "developing nation". (Ditto the second place country Egypt--so these questions all apply almost...

All I know about Israel's universal health care system I learned from Wikipedia - and according to Wiki, they seem to have a pretty good one, even if WHO's ranking of their UHC-system does not seem to be a matter of euphoria. However, I never saw one single Conservative claiming that Israel's...

I have started this thread to explore a claim by Marc39. That claim is that any Jew....from anywhere... can go to anywhere in "Palestine" and live...as long as that land is not covered by "legal title". Non Jews cannot do this. Marc39 please feel free to correct or expand on that if its not...

For the sake of skeptical inquiry, I am curious how would you respond to these? I have removed what appears to be a quote or quotes of someone else's work. As a general rule you should always provide a link to any quoted work and provide a citation. Please read Rule 4 of your Membership...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727541394&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Scary how Israel treats its own "Chosen People" soldiers huh? Imagine how they treat non-Jews!!! God almighty.

Long time Politics-subforum lurker, first time Politics-subforum poster I mean to say that I don't post here often. I just had to ask some questions after seeing the umpteenth thread about the latest Zionist evil deed/Hamas terrorist attack. Quite an unusually frequent posting of what is...

Comes as no surprise to me .... The Jeruslam Post. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304639870&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull 'New settlement info implicates gov't' A newly leaked database detailing the complicity of the government in widespread illegal construction in...

So how do we bring about peace in Gaza? Let these angry, violent, unskilled young men emigrate to the west! Link. Gunnar Heinsohn, the author, "heads the Raphael Lemkin Institute at the University of Bremen, Europe's first institute devoted to comparative genocide research." Can anyone tell...

In order to be clear on this subject before things get out of hand in the forum, this has just been reported: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3652649,00.html Israel did not start this attack. Someone is firing at Israel.

Surprise, surprise, Reuters is spreading anti-Israel propaganda. First off, a little reminder of a past example. Back in August of 2006, when Israel was fighting Hezbollah, a Reuters photographer named Adnan Hajj doctored photos of an Israeli F-16 firing a single defensive flare, making it...

First...they instate an embargo on Gaza that only allows in enough food and medicine to prevent a humanitarian disaster. Next...they start the attacks on Gaza. Then...they bomb a mosque. Then..they attack the American University. And now...they hit a school. But not just any school..but the...