The U.S. State Department "unequivocally rejects dehumanizing and inflammatory language, regardless of who is targeted by such rhetoric," a spokesperson said.
The forced merger of most of Israeli political parties fell apart once the anti-Netanyahu glue holding them together was dissolved.
By JNi.Media
He interpreted President Trump's declaration on Jerusalem to mean that "the limits of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem are determined by negotiations."
After a whirlwind US speaking tour Gil Hoffman returns to an uproar over the comments Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay made about the Left forgetting what it means to be Jewish. Hear more today on Israel Israel Today.
Avi Gabbay promised Monday that as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria would not have to be evacuated. Gil Hoffman explains the significance of the Left reowning Judea and Samaria today on Inside Israel Today.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Fuad Ben-Eliezer has passed away at the age of 80.
The indictments against the former Defense Minister are considered even more shocking than those against former Prime Minister Olmert.
The President of Israel from 1978 to 1983, unlike his predecessors, was born in Israel and unlike his successors, was a respected educator.
The Muslim narrative of anarchy that played out in Iraq, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and Libya is going to destroy the Palestinian Authority, not Israel.
MK Jamal Zahalka said everything that a right-winger thinks but would not dare say about leftists - "racist", "spoiled" and "engineers of expulsion."
"I, Yaakov Litzman, pledge…to be faithful to the government of Israel and to its laws."
Leftists, whose free speech may have cost Labor the election, once again shoot themselves in the mouth.
Bennett preached unity, but Herzog scolded him for crossing the "red line" in the elections.
Herzog's idea sounds stupid, but if it is taken seriously, it might be a great brainstorm.
By Shalom Bear
Apparently the Arabs believe that all these years they voted for Labor, they were not voting for a Zionist party.
The merged Labor party, AKA the "Zionist Camp" headed by Yitzchak Herzog and Tzipi Livni, has drafted former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin to fill its vacuum for a future Defense Minister if it forms the next government. Israel Radio (Voice of Israel) was quick to promote Yadlin Tuesday morning with soft-glove questions that allowed […]
The Herzog-Livni gimmick of calling itself the "Zionist Camp" looks more absurd every day.
Lieberman is destroying himself politically before the voters do it for him.
At age 78, with health problems, he said enough is enough.
The meeting will help Herzog put Livni, another suitor, in her place, but also could preclude a three-way merger to tackle Netanyahu.
Lapid tries to ignore the economy, security and the middle class by making Netanyahu the only election issue.
Peretz is not the solution, but the problem.
Labor party chairman and opposition leader Isaac Herzog condemns Israeli Arab MK Hanin Zoabi for supporting terror kidnappers.
Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.
A poll by the Knesset Channel released on Thursday confirms the trend of increased popularity for the Jewish Home party, headed by Naftali Bennett, and lesser support for Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. Unlike recent polls, strength in the Likud-Beiteinu party dropped a bit. Labor and Meretz gained backing at the expense of Yesh Atid, […]
Google will have to pay 7 percent on revenue from Israeli Internet content that is copyrighted if the Knesset approves a bill submitted by Labor Knesset Member Erel Margalit and now under discussion in the Knesset Finance Committee. The proposed legislation calls for the royalties to be deposited in an account managed by the Finance […]
“You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Lapid soared to political stardom on his “middle class” soap box, which turned out to be full of hogwash. His wealth now is estimated at $6 million.
By JTA
Australia, one of Israel’s staunchest supporters, now has a deputy prime minister who is a founding member of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group, a sign of shifting political sands that may change the country’s attitudes towards the Jewish state. Anthony Albanese, a longstanding member of the left faction of the Labor Party, was sworn […]
Yair Lapid’s star is beginning to dim, with his Yesh Atid party losing two seats in the Knesset in a Knesset Channel poll released on Monday. The two-seat drop from its current standing in the Knesset is even more serious when taking into consideration that Lapid was sitting on top of the poll three months […]
While the American Democratic Party may not have an official anthem, the British Labour Party does.
The glorious day of the inglorious man is here. And someone else is paying. Any someone else who isn't him.
The national census for England and Wales has come out, and, as usual, this once-a-decade event has had all of its most significant points overlooked.
By Tibbi Singer
Back in 1998, Lord Nazir Ahmed, 53, became the first Muslim life peer. Now he is reported to have said: "'If the US can announce a reward of $10 million for the (capture) of Hafiz Saeed, I can announce a bounty of £10 million (for the capture of) President Obama and his predecessor, George Bush."
By JTA
Noam Shalit, fresh off his successful campaign to have his son, Gilad, freed in exchange for over a thousand Arab security prisoners, will attempt to win a Knesset seat with the Labor party.
Noam Shalit will seek to run on the Labor Party list in the next election.