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Prime Minister Netanyahu at AIPAC: World Must Unite Against Terror
22 March, 2016 |
10 years ago
In his address to the 2016 AIPAC conference this morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attacks in Belgium earlier this morning and expressed the need for global unity against terrorism.
“This is one continuous assault on all of us,” said Netanyahu. “In all these cases, the terrorists have no resolvable grievances.”
“The only way to defeat these terrorists is to join together and fight them together,” added Netanyahu. “That’s how we’ll fight terror, with political unity and moral clarity.”
Israel to Impose Curfew Over Judea and Samaria During Purim
22 March, 2016 |
10 years ago
Israel will impose a complete curfew over Judea and Samaria during the Jewish festival of Purim, the IDF spokesperson unit announced on Tuesday, March 22.
In accordance with the government’s orders and with IDF assessments, the curfew will start on Wednesday early morning, March 23, at 1 a.m., and will be lifted on Saturday evening, March 26, at 23:59.
During the curfew, entry through Israeli checkpoints will be allowed only in humanitarian, medical and exceptional cases, in accordance with the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
Netanyahu Welcomes Yemenite Jewish Immigrants
21 March, 2016 |
10 years ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially welcomed the 17 Yemenite Jews who were brought to Israel on Monday, March 21, in a “secret operation,” the Prime Minister’s office said.
The new arrivals brought with them an 800-year-old Torah scroll, which Prime Minister Netanyahu read from together with one of the Yemenite children.
“Welcome to Jerusalem, to the Land of Israel,” Netanyahu told them. “I am very excited to see you here. It’s exciting that you know how to read the Torah scroll. That’s the foundation. For many years we thought about bringing you here and, with God’s help, it worked out.”
“Pure, Old-School Anti-Semitism,” Lapid Blasts UN Committee Against Israel
21 March, 2016 |
10 years ago
Hundreds protested on Monday, March 21, outside the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, as the council convened to discuss alleged violations of human rights by Israel.
“That is not a council for human rights. That is a council for terrorist rights,” MK Yair Lapid blasted the organization, speaking to the crowd assembled in protest outside the U.N. headquarters in Geneva.
Lapid condemned the council for focusing disproportionately on Israel, explaining that in the past decade the Human Rights Council has passed 62 resolutions against Israel but only 55 against the rest of the world combined.
“The treatment of Israel by the council is far beyond bias,” he said. “It’s obsessive. It’s insanity. What they’re doing today is pure, old-school anti-Semitism.”
At AIPAC, Herzog Says Peace Agreement “Not Realistic”
21 March, 2016 |
10 years ago
Israeli Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog spoke at the AIPAC conference in Washington DC on Monday and said: “I don’t feel that an immediate peace agreement between us and the Palestinians is realistic.”
“I think that we need to preserve the two-state solution and work towards it,” added Herzog. “But at this stage when we are in the midst of a very painful terror wave, we should work to disengage from the Palestinians, complete the security fence around the settlement blocs and around the Muslim villages around Jerusalem, move towards empowering the Palestinians behind the fence and of course convene an international regional security conference that will converge to discuss the interests of all the moderate parties in the region against the terror, Iran and ISIS.”
