Regarding this, the Obama administration has already shown its frustration over Netanyahu promising Israeli voters there wouldn’t be a Palestinian state if he was reelected, and went on the air election day to warn people that massive numbers of Arab voters were coming out to vote.
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Police said the stabbing took place in a shop on the second floor of an expansive office building where a group of Israelis had gathered to hold afternoon prayers.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said one of the dead was in his 20s. The military said soldiers shot at the attacker, although his condition and identity were unknown.
Head of the Joint Arab List Ayman Odeh asserted the banning was politically motivated and strategically timed after the Paris attacks on Friday to suggest a link between the Israel-based group and ISIS.
Blair and Bar share at least part of a premise: that the “traditional approach” typified by the failure-ridden negotiation process will never bear fruit; and the idea that underlying the spiraling tension between Israelis and Palestinians that has now escalated to the point where many refer to the “third intifada” – or uprising – is in large part the feeling of despair by young Palestinians whom Blair describes as watching and juxtaposing Israeli prosperity against their own inferior economy and dependence upon “the occupation” for necessities. The site is at the heart of the latest surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Shimon Vaknin, a witness, told Israeli Channel 2 TV, that a bloodied man stumbled into the room where he prayed with companions in Tel Aviv. “We didn’t know what happened and then someone near the door shouted there’s a terrorist”, Vaknin said.
Violence since October 1 has killed 84 people on the Palestinian side, including one Arab Israeli, as well as 12 Israelis.
He states, “Most Palestinians also believe Israel wants to drive them out entirely, especially from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock stand”, as if this is simple and unjustifiable paranoia.
Ramat Shlomo and Ramot are in a part of the West Bank that Israel annexed to Jerusalem in 1967 in a move that has not won worldwide recognition.
In 1946, there were small Jewish settlements throughout Palestine. Glaringly absent from the discussion, however, is a serious attempt to understand the perspectives of ordinary Palestinians, and how those views might shape the atmosphere in which teenagers decide to become “suicide knifers”, and politicians and clerics who feel comfortable leveling seemingly outrageous accusations against Israel.
Beyond this lies growing resentment in European capitals toward Netanyahu, who has alienated many European leaders with his hard-line stance on peace talks, his refusal to halt settlement construction and, most recently, his controversial claim about the role of a Palestinian leader leading up to the Holocaust. According to a study he conducted – the 2015 Annual Index of Arab-Jewish Relations – 57% of Arabs in Israel think the Islamic Movement faithfully represents them, 42% of the entire Arab public define themselves as supporters, members or activists in the Islamic Movement, as do 32% of Israeli Christian Arabs. The officer was sentenced Wednesday. Hilik Bar, the Israeli opposition Labor Party’s Secretary General and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament), has also thrown an offering into the ring.
Abu Khdeir’s attorney Mohammad Mahmoud said Thursday the ruling delivered an “extremely light” punishment that “gives (police) a free hand”. Israeli cellular carriers transmit 3G, but Palestinian networks have been confined to the slower 2G networks.
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Thursday signed an agreement to enable long-awaited 3G mobile access in the occupied Palestinian territory.
