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• Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or face 'second Gaza'
• Body of Israeli citizen, 29, found in suitcase in Canada
• Rabbi calls Israel's treatment of Vatican 'outrageous'
• Zvi Bar'el / Israel is engaging in gangster diplomacy
• Norwegian politico: Israeli hostility to Norway understandable

Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or face 'second Gaza' Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:57 PM PST The request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations Human Rights Council last year to postpone the vote on the Goldstone report followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of the Shin Bet security service, Haaretz has learned. At the October meeting in Ramallah, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year's military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a "second Gaza." ...

Body of Israeli citizen, 29, found in suitcase in Canada Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:15 PM PST Canada police on Saturday found the body of an Israeli man, 29, inside a suitcase in Montreal after a passerby noticed a foot sticking out of the case which had been left outside in the snow. ...

Rabbi calls Israel's treatment of Vatican 'outrageous' Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:05 PM PST Israel's behavior toward the Vatican over the past 15 years has been "outrageous," one of the figures behind the 1994 establishment of diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Vatican City told Haaretz last week. "Any [other] country would have threatened to withdraw its ambassador long ago over Israel's failure to honor agreements," Rabbi David Rosen said. ...

Zvi Bar'el / Israel is engaging in gangster diplomacy Posted: 16 Jan 2010 07:04 PM PST Now we have also shown the Turks who we are, because when it comes to the Jewish, Zionist honor of a nation that endured the Holocaust and the Goldstone report, no one will make a movie about us - certainly not the Turks - portraying us as war criminals. If Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan thinks he can reprimand us without a reaction, we'll show him and all the other countries of the world. ...

Norwegian politico: Israeli hostility to Norway understandable Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:56 PM PST It is easy to understand why many Israelis view Norway as a hostile entity, an opposition leader from Oslo told Haaretz ahead of the Norwegian foreign minister's visit to Israel today. ...

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