Good cop, bad cop

The 'Palestinians' tried to play the good cop, bad cop game with Congress this week, with unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad playing the good cop and 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen playing the bad cop. The Palestinian leadership sent mixed messages to a Democratic Congressional delegation visiting Ramallah, with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad

Oy vey: 'I can hardly remember a better period of US support for Israel'

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Fox News' Greta van Sustern this week that he can hardly remember a better period of US support for Israel than the Obama administration (Note to Lefty blog Think Progress: Time to get a new picture. The one you used is from the 2008 campaign when Livni was Foreign Minister and Barak was Defense Minister). And now yet another pillar of the farce that has been

Final approval given for 930 apartments in Har Homa

Israel Radio reports that final approval has been given for the construction of 930 new apartments in Har Homa. Har Homa is a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, which is beyond the terminus of Jewish sovereignty that was demarcated by the 1949 armistice lines. It is one of two Jewish neighborhoods that was built in Jerusalem in the last 20 years that has 'popularly priced' apartments. The land

Israel agrees to negotiate over '1967 lines'?

An AP report indicates that Israel has agreed to 'negotiate' with the 'Palestinians' based upon the '1967 borders' 1949 armistice lines (Hat Tip: Gershon D). But Israel Radio tells a completely different story.In a speech about the Middle East in May, Obama proposed negotiations based on the pre-1967 line with agreed swaps of territory between Israel and a Palestinian state. Netanyahu reacted

Video: The truth about the 'West Bank'

Here's a new video that was put out by Israel's Foreign Ministry in partnership with StandWithUs.com.The narrator is Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.Let's go to the videotape.So did you learn something?

'Palestinians' to give up on bid for full UN membership to avoid US veto?

'Palestinian' sources and European diplomats say that the 'Palestinians' are considering giving up on becoming full members of the United Nations, and instead seeking non-member state status 'within the 1967 borders' from the General Assembly. This would avoid a US veto in the Security Council and would only require a majority vote in the General Assembly. Following the failed meeting of the