Latest News
- A RADICAL SQUAD’S JEW-HATE by ari Lieberman
- CUFI 2019 Washington summit,
- DEMOCRATS’ CONCENTRATION CAMP CRAZE by Lloyd Billingsley
- THE LEFT’S METAPHORICAL HOLOCAUST DENIAL by Daniel Greenfield
- Christians in Africa: “You have three days to go or you will be killed!” by Giulio Meotti
- sArabs try To Burn Down Home of Anti-Jihad Politician Near Mt of Olives, Jerusalem by By David Sidman
- JEWS AND JEWISH ANTI-SEMITES COLLIDE IN CALIFORNIA Daniel Greenfield
- Michael Peck: Russia vs. Israel: How a War in the Middle East Could Happen
- All’s (Renaissance) Faire in Jewish ‘American Princess’ BY GERRI MILLER
- Anti-Zionism Worse than Anti-Semitism BY DAVID SUISSA
German Chancellor Merkel: Palestinians Must Recognize Israel As ‘Jewish State’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
“There was a series of internal discussions in Israel about this. It’s not like this was the most uncontroversial proposed legislation ever, so I asked several questions,” Merkel said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
She was in Israel accepting an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa.
“And yet, we recognize the Jewish state,” she continued. “And if there is supposed to be peace, an enduring peace, between Israelis and Palestinians, then, of course, it cannot be that all states say Israel should be a Jewish state, with democratic rights for minorities that live here, but the Palestinians don’t say it.”
She added: “This cannot be the basis for peace. Rather, solutions need to be found, and we are in favor of working on these solutions with full force, as has been discussed here.”
Merkel also stressed the importance of preventing Iran from creating a nuclear bomb, and that the regime’s presence in Syria must move “toward zero,” despite it being “a difficult project.”
“There is absolutely no question that the fact that Iranian forces are standing near the Golan Heights is a threat to Israel,” she said.
Netanyahu echoed some of Merkel’s comments, such as on the Iranian threat. “[We will] continue to block Iran’s efforts to use Syria and Lebanon as forward bases for attacking Israel,” he said. “And we will also continue to engage with new partners in our region.”
Merkel’s visit was reportedly in jeopardy with the anticipated Israeli evacuation of the illegal neighborhood of Khan al-Ahmar. However, Merkel denied the speculation.
FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestEmailWhatsAppCopy LinkShare40
Related articles
More in this category
OUR SITES אתרי מבט
US Sanctions Three Hezbollah Leaders, Including Two Members of Lebanon’s Parliament
The US Treasury added three top Hezbollah figures to its list of sanctioned individuals on Tuesday, including two members of the Lebanese Parliament and a security official responsible for coordinating between Hezbollah and Lebanon’s security agencies.
It was the first time the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control had designated a member of Lebanon’s Parliament under a sanctions list that targets those accused by Washington of providing support to terrorist organizations. Washington has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
It Was Fantastic’: South Africa’s Jewish Soccer Star Dean Furman Reflects on Shock Win Over Egypt in African Cup
South African fans in Cairo celebrating their team’s win over Egypt at the African Cup of Nations. Photo: Reuters / Sumaya Hisham.
Three days after South Africa stunned the world of international soccer by knocking hosts Egypt out of the 2019 African Cup of Nations, the sound of elation remains clearly detectable in the voice of the team’s Jewish midfielder, Dean Furman.
“It was a fantastic victory, just fantastic,” Furman told The Algemeiner during a break in training on Tuesday, as South Africa prepared for its crucial quarterfinal game against Nigeria, another of the continent’s toughest sides, tomorrow.
Dutch Christians Break Law to Protect Israel By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
Pieter van Oordt, left, with his brother, Roger, at the Israel
For the second time in recent history, a Dutch Christian organization dedicated to supporting Israel has gone head-to-head with the government. With their family tradition of belief in Israel that preceded the state of Israel by almost one hundred years, it seems unlikely that the van Oordts are about to back down, no matter what the odds.
Last month, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy made a request from the management of the Israel Products Center (IPC) to ensure they were in compliance with regulations adopted in 2015 by the European Commission requiring products made by Jewish owned companies in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights, and sections of Jerusalem to be labeled in a manner indicating their origins.
SRAELI SCIENTIST FIGURES OUT HOW TO STOP COWS FROM KILLING THE PLANET BY REBECCA ARATEN
Studies have shown that dairy cows contribute large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, caused by the organisms living in their microbiomes.
Genetically modifying cows may help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and feed world populations, a new study led by Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggests.
“Our findings are both a major breakthrough for basic science and will have a positive impact on two major challenges facing the international community for the foreseeable future: climate change and food security,” Mizrahi said.
Israel’s chief of staff revealing his political preferences by Akiva Eldar 6
The decision by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi to promote Brig. Gen. Ofer Winter reflects his future political aspirations.
Incoming Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi walks out at the end of a handover ceremony where he replaces Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 15, 2019.
Israel has its own version of Napoleon’s famous saying, “Every soldier carries a marshal’s baton in his pack.” In these parts, every general carries a prime minister’s baton — or at least that of a defense minister — in his pack
News
![aChristians and Jews Join to Help Israeli Community Devastated by Fire [Watch] By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz](https://mabatzion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fire-in-modiin-120x85.jpg)
New column!
Sam Westrop : Prominent Imam Decries ‘Palestine’ Obsession of U.S. Muslim Leaders
As Islamist Watch has pointed out many times before, Islam is enormously diverse – containing many competing schools of theology, schools of jurisprudence, sects, ethnicities, cultures and mysticisms. Islamism is also not a single force; it comprises dozens of (both) competing and collaborating radical ideologies.
One of the most intriguing divisions, then, within both American Islam and Islamism of late has been growing dissent over the question of liberalism.
David Haggith : Trump’s Fourth-of-July Crowd Matches His Huge Inauguration Crowd
Right after Trump’s inauguration, I ran an article about how incredibly fake the news coverage was about his inauguration. (Those reading my site know I’m not a big Trump fan, but credit where credit is due and calling fake where calling fake is due.) The media was nothing short of spectacularly fake in the news it contrived that week on CNN, the New York Times and the other major fake media, and they mostly got away with it.
EITAN ORKIBI : The Racism of the Israeli Left has Become Pathological
It wasn’t condescension or contempt. Recent remarks by former Mossad head Shabtai Shavit reek of racism. That is the proper way to frame them, calling them anything else is letting him off easy. In its classic, formal sense, racism is when a certain social sector perceives itself as superior because of clear racial criteria. Shavit represents an updated version of racism that doesn’t require ethnicity or religion as proof of a defect – you can call it “essential racism.”
Ariel Nathan Pasko :Ehud Barak’s Napoleonic Complex Will Save Israeli Democracy?
Little Napoleon Barak is going to save Israeli Democracy? What a bunch of claptrap Orwellian doublespeak.
Well let’s check out history. How well did the original Napoleon save France’s democratic revolution against the monarchy?
Hmm, if I recall he crowned himself emperor!
Stephen Flatow : Ten Jewish Groups Unite Against Israeli Democracy
For years, the pundits have been telling us that Israeli democracy is in danger because of the Arab birthrate, or because of the Jewish nation-state law, or because of the debates over the powers of Israel’s High Court.
I wonder if they will recognize the danger posed by the 10 left-wing American Jewish organizations that have formed a new umbrella organization, the essential purpose of which is to undermine Israeli democracy.