-Fifty years after Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, Germany is still keeping mum on how much it knew before Mossad agents kidnapped the Nazi war criminal in Argentina in 1960
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton joined the United States and the United Nations in condemning a Jerusalem committee's approval of new housing in Gilo.
The article of Judge Richard Goldstone in which he retracted his statement that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza during the 2008-2009 war, “does not in any way change EU's consistent line calling on all parties to respect international law,” an EU spokesperson told EJP.
Italian MEP Firorello Provera thinks that the EU should call for the Goldstone Report on the Gaza war to be rectified after his author retracted the conclusions on Israel.
The Channel 10 report was the second part of an expose which last month revealed thatNetanyahu took several trips abroad that were subsidized by wealthy backers and associates during his stint as finance minister and an MK.
Richard Goldstone said he will not seek to quash his report to the United Nations on Israel's conduct during the Gaza war, despite his retraction of a key finding.
Reaching peace in the Middle East is more urgent than ever as pro-democracy uprisings rock the Arab world, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after meeting his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.