Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today delivered his much-anticipated foreign policy speech, where he said that a Palestinian state can be born only if they recognize Israel as a Jewish state and if Jerusalem will remain united under Israel’s sovereignty.
Netanyahu said in his speech at Bar Ilan University that the “root of the struggle is the refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish state”.
“The Initial Arab refusal was to a Jewish state in any location, …

Tel Aviv City’s Enforcement Department revealed that the metropolitan area of one of the largest cities in Israel is lacking a staggering 324,000 parking spots, Ynet reports.
It is also stated that the shortage results in over 3,000 parking tickets a day, most of which are given between 5pm and 7 pm, in central Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv residents themselves own 152,000 vehicles, the newspaper says, but incoming traffic sees more than 450,000 cars enter the city …

Today 68 years ago, the Soviet Union committed an appalling crime against the nations in occupied territories of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. More than 100,000 people were driven out of their homes and deported to the deep inner regions of the Soviet Union.
The mass deportation started on Saturday night between 13th and 14th of June, 1941. At about 1-2AM the Soviet authorities, with the help of local collaborationists, started waking up the …

Iran’s capital Tehran saw the most serious unrest for last 10 years yesterday, when thousands of supporters of the presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi came to the streets to protest the election, which they call “rigged”. According to the Times, they fought the police armed with batons and stun grenades, set fire to police vehicles and threw stones at government buildings.
The newspaper said that clashes continued late into the night and fires of rubbish burnt …

According to the latest YouGov poll, 51% of the people agree with the statement that “Gordon Brown’s continued presence as prime minister is damaging the country”, and only 27% disagree, the Sunday Times reports.
The Tories have, according to the poll, 40% of the vote and thus maintain a 16-point lead over Labour, which is down at 24%. Still, both main partirs have lost support over the past month – in May Conservative support was …