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Lieberman: Diplomacy over Iran nuclear threat must be limited
Israel urges world: Reject Goldstone report on Gaza
Palestinian UN draft / The more extreme, the better for Israel
Report: Turkey did not ban Israel from NATO drill over Gaza
Haaretz exclusive: Palestinian draft resolution on Goldstone, Gaza and Jerusalem

Lieberman: Diplomacy over Iran nuclear threat must be limited

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 10:51 AM PDT

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday said that the international community's diplomatic efforts to curb the Iranian nuclear threat should be limited in time. ...

Israel urges world: Reject Goldstone report on Gaza

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 10:05 AM PDT

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told world diplomats on Tuesday that the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of having committed war crimes in Gaza, is "false, distorted and promotes terror." ...

Palestinian UN draft / The more extreme, the better for Israel

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 09:59 AM PDT

We should not get unnerved by the heartbreaking cries coming from Jerusalem regarding Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to appeal to the UN Human Rights Council with an upgraded Goldstone report. Wise men have said in the past, "the worse it is, the better it is." The more extreme the Palestinian offer gets, the chance of it winning support in the West dwindles. ...

Report: Turkey did not ban Israel from NATO drill over Gaza

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 09:47 AM PDT

The reason Turkey banned Israel from this week's NATO air force exercises was "yet another delay in the delivery of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs," and not Turkish opposition to Israel's Gaza offensive, Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman quoted a senior Turkish air force official as saying on Wednesday. ...