June 4, 2015
Israel Air Force jets (click here) struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, after at least two rockets were fired from the Strip at southern Israel on Wednesday evening. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon vowed to "strike harder if we must," to stop sporadic rocket fire from resuming.
No casualties or injuries by the rocket fire were reported. Rocket sirens were sounded in several communities in southern Israel near the northern Gaza border. Two rockets exploded in an open area near the Gaza border, the Sdot Negev Regional Council reported, though the IDF said it is still searching for the rockets' landing sites....
There is no productive dialogue. The last attempt for the settlement of a two state solution was former President Olmert in 2007 when the "Arab Peace Initiative" was conducted by the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Israel is resistant to come to a peace table with USA leadership. It may be Israel's neighbors are going to have to bring about the only peace movement that matters. None of Israel's neighbors need more instability in the region. As long as Israel continues to stalemate any peace talks of any kind, it will fuel unrest.
June 4, 2015
S Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro (click here) said Thursday that while the United States opposes all efforts to impose boycotts on Israel or delegitimize the Jewish State, the job of fighting such efforts is made much more difficult by the current stagnation in the peace process.
Shapiro made the comments in interviews with both Israel Radio and Army Radio a day after Stephane Richard, the chairman and CEO of French telecom operator Orange, told reporters in Cairo that his company wished to distance itself from its role in facilitating Israel’s rule over the Palestinian territories.
"We staunchly oppose any effort to delegitimize or boycott or sanction Israel. We will never support this. We will fight together with Israel against all these efforts," Shapiro told Army Radio....
Israel Air Force jets (click here) struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, after at least two rockets were fired from the Strip at southern Israel on Wednesday evening. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon vowed to "strike harder if we must," to stop sporadic rocket fire from resuming.
No casualties or injuries by the rocket fire were reported. Rocket sirens were sounded in several communities in southern Israel near the northern Gaza border. Two rockets exploded in an open area near the Gaza border, the Sdot Negev Regional Council reported, though the IDF said it is still searching for the rockets' landing sites....
There is no productive dialogue. The last attempt for the settlement of a two state solution was former President Olmert in 2007 when the "Arab Peace Initiative" was conducted by the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Israel is resistant to come to a peace table with USA leadership. It may be Israel's neighbors are going to have to bring about the only peace movement that matters. None of Israel's neighbors need more instability in the region. As long as Israel continues to stalemate any peace talks of any kind, it will fuel unrest.
June 4, 2015
S Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro (click here) said Thursday that while the United States opposes all efforts to impose boycotts on Israel or delegitimize the Jewish State, the job of fighting such efforts is made much more difficult by the current stagnation in the peace process.
Shapiro made the comments in interviews with both Israel Radio and Army Radio a day after Stephane Richard, the chairman and CEO of French telecom operator Orange, told reporters in Cairo that his company wished to distance itself from its role in facilitating Israel’s rule over the Palestinian territories.
"We staunchly oppose any effort to delegitimize or boycott or sanction Israel. We will never support this. We will fight together with Israel against all these efforts," Shapiro told Army Radio....
