Hamas' prime minister in Gaza embarks on trip to Iran - LA Times Blog, USA 31 Jan 2012
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' prime minister in the Gaza Strip, left Monday for a regional tour that will include stops in Qatar and Iran. read more »
UNESCO forum to discuss role of Holocaust education in fighting prejudice - China National News 31 Jan 2012
Historians and researchers will gather in Paris for a United Nations forum designed to address the impact that Holocaust remembrance can have in stemming the tide of intolerance around the world. read more »
Israel dominates the debate in Malaysia – again - Wall Street Journal Blog, USA 31 Jan 2012
Recent comments by Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim have demonstrated yet again how issues related to Israel continue to divide this majority-Muslim country – and could influence the country’s next national election. read more »
Canadian FM: "Delegitimization of Israel is new anti-Semitism" - Jerusalem Post, Israel 31 Jan 2012
Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird has said during an address at the opening of the 12th annual Herzliya Conference. read more »
PLO blames Israel for failure of Amman talks - Jerusalem Post, Israel 31 Jan 2012
Palestinian leaders blamed Israel for the failure of exploratory talks aimed at resuming peace negotiations Monday night, and said they planned to explore other ways of bringing about a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. read more »
US lawmakers take next step on new Iran sanctions - Reuters, UK 31 Jan 2012
Members of the US Senate's Banking Committee plan to vote on a new round of sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector, aimed at choking off funds they suspect Tehran uses to develop nuclear weapons. read more »
Irish president praises Jewish community - Irish Times, Ireland 31 Jan 2012
President Michael D. Higgins said the significant contribution of the Jewish community to Ireland was “out of proportion to their numbers”. read more »
Jewish groups, Austrian politicians condemn rightist leader’s comments at far-right ball - Associated Press, USA 31 Jan 2012
A far-right Austrian politician were widely criticized Monday for comparing protests against a fancy ball that attracts extremists to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews. Vienna’s Jewish community demanded an investigation into the remarks by FPÖ leader Heinz Straché. read more »
Hamas leader Khaled Meshal visits Jordan’s King Abdullah II as relations ease - Washington Post, USA 30 Jan 2012
Signaling a thaw in relations, Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday hosted Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, who made his first official visit to the country since his expulsion more than a decade ago in a crackdown on the militant Islamist group. read more »
Panetta: Iran is one year away from producing nuclear weapon - Haaretz, Israel 30 Jan 2012
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday that Iran is only one year away from producing a nuclear weapon. read more »
Norway apologizes for deporting Jews during Holocaust - BBC News, UK 30 Jan 2012
The Norwegian prime minister has apologized for the role his country played in deporting its own Jews as Europe marks Holocaust Remembrance Day. read more »
Europe’s Jewish heritage gets online home - CzechPosition.com 30 Jan 2012
An online heritage initiative launches in Prague, providing the first one-stop site to access centuries of European Jewish culture. read more »
Israeli settler seeks to beat Netanyahu in primary - Associated Press, USA 30 Jan 2012
Moshe Feiglin, a Jewish settler who wants to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza, has announced he will run against Israel's prime minister in Tuesday's Likud Party leadership election. read more »
Economy more worrying than Mideast for Florida Jews - Reuters, UK 30 Jan 2012
Republican presidential candidates' tough talk on the Middle East in Florida before Tuesday's primary is doing little to sway the state's large Jewish population from its longstanding support for the Democrats. read more »
Irish minister says Ireland’s neutrality on Hitler was morally bankrupt - Irish Central 27 Jan 2012
Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, has apologized for the way the 10,000 Irishmen who fought Hitler were treated after World War II. The minister also said Ireland’s stance of “neutrality” during the war was morally bankrupt. read more »
OPINION - Daniel Schatz: Human rights and wrongs - Israel Hayom 27 Jan 2012
Universal human rights are trampled upon in dictatorships like Syria, but while citizens of these countries are in dire need of the international community’s protection, the international human rights discourse has been dominated by Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza and the war against international terrorism. read more »
Leading German literary critic recalls horrors of Warsaw Ghetto in speech to lawmakers 27 Jan 2012
In Berlin, lawmakers on Friday commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day with speeches from the speaker of the Bundestag and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 91. read more »
Romney: Obama "threw Israel under the bus" - Jerusalem Post, Israel 27 Jan 2012
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said that US President Barack Obama "threw Israel under the bus" by designating the pre-1967 borders as a starting point for peace talks, while Newt Gingrich reiterated his controversial remark that the Palestinians are an "invented" people. read more »
Welcome to the fastest-growing Jewish community in the world: Germany - Haaretz, Israel 27 Jan 2012
'Jewish Voice from Germany', published by a former Israeli, marks the renaissance of long-dormant culture. read more »
OPINION - Dieter Graumann: A universal message for Holocaust Remembrance Day - JTA, USA 27 Jan 2012
It has taken decades for the international community to deal with the Holocaust in a really serious way. Today, Holocaust commemorations have become an integral part of political culture, at least in Western democracies, writes the head of the German Jewish community. read more »
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Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict
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