''The world will now begin to comprehend and acknowledge the fundamental difference between democratic Israel and the extremists who seek Israel’s destruction,'' said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in a reaction to an opinion article published by Richard Goldstone in the Washington Post in which he retracts the central findings of the Goldstone Commission Report, the United Nations Human Rights Council-mandated investigation he led into Israel’s 2009 Operation in Gaza.
Israeli President Shimon Peres departed Sunday for the United States where he will hold talks with US President Barack Obama aimed at furthering regional peace efforts.
he launch of a European Jewish Parliament which ambitions to become the ''influent voice of the Jewish community'' in Europe and elsewhere was announced Monday in Paris in the framework of a conference of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC).
In remarks made behind closed doors, Amos Gilad warns that ongoing freeze in the peace process could yield third Intifada as Palestinians prepare to ask UN for recognition of statehood in September.
Russia plans to press ahead with plans to sell two surface-to-air rocket units armed with missiles to Damascus in a deal worth 300 million dollars; Israel fears weapons could fall into hands of Hezbollah.
Around 1,000 people, from Western, Central and Eastern Europe, but also from the US and Israel, gathered Sunday at the Euro Disney resort near Paris for the two-day European Jewish Education and Youth General Assembly conference organized by the European Council of Jewish Communities.
Netanyahu asks National Security Adviser to establish committee focused on 'minimizing damage caused' by report, after Judge Goldstone retracts some of his conclusions regarding Israel's alleged war crimes in Gaza.
In wake of Richard Goldstone's op-ed in which he said Hamas 'has done nothing' to investigate itself over Gaza war actions, Hamas says they cooperated fully with fact-finding mission.
