Speaking of what Israelis will allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept from the U.S. and the Palestinians with regard to direct negotiations and a potential easing of the Gaza blockade, a New Jersey polling firm, Pechter Middle East Polls, conducted a poll in Hebrew yesterday among 500 Israelis to More…
As if to underscore the point made in this post, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he won’t run for reelection. Israeli, Egyptian and Jordanian emissaries are trying to get him to change his mind.
Excellent rundown from James Besser in the Jewish Week about the coterie of Christian and Jewish peace-process rejectionists ready to support Benjamin Netanyahu, the peace-process-rejectionist now running the show in Israel:
“There’s a kindred spirit between Christian Zionists and Netanyahu,” said the Rev. James Hutchens, president of The Jerusalem Connection,
The results of Tuesday’s election in Israel are still inconclusive. Even though the centrist Kadima Party, which looked slated to lose just weeks ago, eked out a surprising 29 seats, ahead of the right-wing Likud Party’s 28, the total number of seats held by right-wing parties appear to be sufficient More…
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