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 …

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 …

I stumbled upon a great reader’s comment on the Washington Post to an article written by Israel’s ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The article itself was quite rubbish, pretty much all the same Olmert has said before, justifying his actions etc. But the comment by someone named “nlkatz” caught my eye because it’s the same thing I’ve been telling over and over:
Why did the Palestinians reject Olmert’s offer of the end of 2008?
Probably for the very …

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, …