Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak suggested that Israel would be allowed to build 8,000 new homes in Judea and Samaria, and in exchange Israel would release 500 Fatah terrorists from prison and recognise pre-1967 borders.
According to Mubarak, Israel would also remove unauthorised outposts and additional security checkpoints, and more, Arutz 7 reports.
The plan is to be presented to the US Government, and if it is approved by Washington, it will be the basis of a summit …

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently told the Israeli consul in Los Angeles that President Barack Obama’s administration is fed up with both Israel and the “Palestinians”, Ha’aretz reports.
Emanuel met with Jacob Dayan, consul general of Israel in Los Angeles, about two weeks ago, after which Dayan briefed the Foreign Ministry. Emanuel told Dayan that the US is sick of the Israelis, who adopt suitable ideas months too late, when they are no …

Israeli police foiled a potentially gruesome terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday when they arrested three Hebron Arabs with knives that were to be used to stab to death an Israeli policeman or soldier, Arutz 7 reports.
They were caught near Jaffa Gate, the most popular and crowded thoroughfare for tourists and visitors to the Old City. Police were suspicious of their vehicle and discovered their plans while questioning the terrorists.
The foiled …

The United States Government will put forth a plan whereby Israel would commit itself to the establishment of a new Arab state in Judea and Samaria within two years of the launch of peace talks with the Arab leadership.
An Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman told the Cairo-based daily newspaper al-Ahram that as part of the plan, both Israel and the Arabs would present written guarantees underlining their obligations prior to the completion of final-status …

A narrow majority of 52% of Israelis believe that “any price” must be paid to restore prisoners in enemy hands to their families – like the IDF soldier Gilad Shalit who terrorists kidnapped over three years ago.
However, 35% of Israelis maintained that terrorists responsible for the deaths of Israelis should not be released, Ha’aretz reports.
Some 58% also support the release of Arab Israelis in exchange for Gilad Shalit.
The survey also showed that Israelis believe the …

According to a new survey, Iran’s nuclear threat to regional security has replaced Israel as the Arab world’s public enemy number one for the Arab world, Arutz 7 reports.
A majority of respondents from 18 Arab countries said Iran is a bigger threat than Israel, and nearly a third think that Tehran is just as likely to target them as Israel. However, an overwhelming 80 per cent do not believe that Iran is trying to build …

United States told the European Union in the light of the latter’s efforts to divide Jerusalem and have it declared the capital of a future Arab state that Jerusalem is a “final-status issue” and “it is best addressed inside a formal negotiation among the parties directly”.
Assistant Secretary of State PJ Crowley said yesterday that all parties have differing views “on the emotional and complex issues that are at the heart of this challenge”, but he …

For the first time, the Government of North Korea will face charges in a United States federal court today for supporting terrorism against Israel, Arutz 7 reports.
The case arose from a lawsuit brought by the families of victims of the 1972 terror attack at the Lod Airport, where 26 people were killed and 80 injured. The court complaint alleges that the government of North Korea trained and financed the terrorists who perpetrated the massacre.
Most of …

Thanks to the Arab boycott of Israel, which partially included Dubai, few Israelis have been exposed to the country’s financial crisis, Ha’aretz reports.
Few Israelis export to Dubai, and it seems very few have business connections with the Government’s Dubai World development arm, which has asked for a six-month moratorium on interest payments on its $59 billion in debt.
That does not mean that many Israelis did not try to do business in Dubai. Many made all …

Israeli Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said that if the Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria unilaterally declare a new Arab state, Israel may annex parts of Judea and Samaria – especially the parts where Jewish villages and towns are located.
Unlike Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria are not annexed by Israel, but remain under military rule. All Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria have the same basic rights as other Israelis.
“If the …

The election of Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria that was supposed to take place on 20th January will be postponed.
The independent Central Election Commission, responsible for organizing elections, confirmed today that they had recommended postponing the vote, Ha’aretz reports. “We met today and we decided to tell the president, who called these elections, that we cannot have elections at the time he scheduled them,” Hana Nasir, the head of the Central …

The Arab leadership in Judea and Samaria announced yesterday their intention to consider a formal abandonment of the Middle East peace process and dissolving the “Palestinian Authority”.
Officials in Judea and Samaria told The Daily Telegraph that the most important Arab decision making bodies were preparing to meet to discuss a proposal to dissolve the “Palestinian Authority”. Such a move would signal the end of Arab self-government in Judea and Samaria, set out by the now defunct …

No fewer than 32 children have been killed over the past three years while working in Gaza arms smuggling tunnels, Arutz 7 reports.
A new report, prepared by an organization called the “Palestinian National Society for Democracy and Law”, was released on Saturday and it deals with the child abuse perpetrated on child labourers in the tunnels used to smuggle weapons, arms and other items from Egypt into Gaza.
The report attempts to shift some of the blame …

A religious Israeli agreed to hide a gay Arab in his village, because the residents of the Arab village the man is from, threaten to kill him.
The Arab man lives with his partner in Israel. But after he visited his parents in Judea-Samaria, he was not allowed back into Israel. However, the residents of his village threatened to kill him, and thus the religious Jewish Israeli agreed to help him and hide him in his …

Leader of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, Mahmoud Abbas reportedly told the US President Barack Obama that he would not run for re-election unless Israel froze the expansion of Jewish villages.
“Abu Mazen (Abbas) told him that he would not be a candidate in the presidential election (in January) unless Israel abided by the peace requirement,” an official said, according to Reuters.
However, other Arab officials voiced doubt Abbas would carry out his threat, saying he …

Stone-throwing Arab youths wounded three policemen on the Temple Mount today as Jerusalem police, firing water cannons and stun grenades, raided the holy site in a bid to quell repeated bouts of rioting, Ha’aretz reports.
Police stormed the compound twice; the first time was in response to Arab youths who pelted officers with rocks and poured oil on them. Later in the morning, about 100 Arab youths renewed rioting at the Temple Mount, after which Border Police …