Fayyad spits in Israel's face

Israel bars Fayyad from attending event
Published: Nov. 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad canceled a ceremony in an East Jerusalem neighborhood because Israel barred him from entering the area. UPI /Monika Graff Jerusalem, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad canceled a ceremony in an East Jerusalem neighborhood because Israel barred him from entering the area. Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch issued a warrant Monday barring events conducted under the...

Fayyad cancels Jerusalem visit after Israel warning
By Mohammed Assadi Ramallah, West Bank | Tue Nov 2, 2010 9:43am EDT Ramallah, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Prime Minister canceled an official visit on Tuesday to an area Israel regards as part of Jerusalem after Israel security forces were ordered to prevent such a trip. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad had been scheduled to open a road in Dahiyat al-Salam, which falls within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem as defined by Israel following its annexation of the territory after the 19...

Israel: Defying Ban, Palestinians Renovate East Jerusalem Schools
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of the Palestinian Authority said Tuesday that the Authority had helped renovate 14 schools in East Jerusalem, in defiance of Israeli claims of Sovereignty over the Area and its ban on Palestinian political activity there. He went to a school in Dahyiat al Barid, on Jerusalem’s outskirts, to dedicate a section the Authority had helped renovate, but Israel barred him from entering a Refugee Camp within the municipal boundaries for another ceremony. He said at the...

Palestinian Prime Minister Stakes Claim to East Jerusalem
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 By Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is surrounded by media and supporters as he visits a school in the West Bank village of Dahiat Al-Barid on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) Dahiat al-Barid, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Tuesday staked a claim to Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem, announcing that his government quietly helped fund the renovation ...

Palestinian PM stakes claim to east Jerusalem
DAHIAT AL-BARID, West Bank -- Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Tuesday staked a claim to Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem, announcing that his government quietly helped fund the renovation of 14 schools in what the Palestinians hope will be their capital. However, Fayyad stopped short of a full-fledged confrontation with Israel. He heeded an Israeli warning not to set foot in Jerusalem for the announcement and instead chose a West Bank school on the edge of the city as a venue. The fa...

Palestine Stakes a Claim to East Jerusalem
AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is surrounded by media and supporters as he visits a school in the West Bank village of Dahiat Al-Barid on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. Fayyad on Tuesday staked a claim to Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem, announcing that his government quietly helped fund the renovation of 14 schools in what the Palestinians hope will be their capital. DAHIAT AL-BARID, West Bank - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayy...

Israel spits on Salam Fayyad
Israel bans Palestinian PM from East Jerusalem event - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News ...

Palestinian PM stakes claim in east Jerusalem, says he's funding renovation of schools there
DAHIAT AL-BARID, West Bank — The Palestinian Prime Minister has staked a new claim in Israel-controlled East Jerusalem, announcing that his government has helped fund the renovation of 14 schools there. Israel says it will not give up any part of Jerusalem, including the eastern sector, which it captured in 1967. The Palestinians want to make East Jerusalem their future capital. The Israeli government has tried to suppress any activity by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Palestinian Author...

Fatah official chides Fayyad
This entry was posted in Towards Palestinian Statehood: News and resources on Palestinian state-building efforts. Bookmark the permalink. Khaled Abu Toameh in the Jerusalem Post reported on 31 October of mounting tensions between Fatah, the ruling party that controls the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who was elected to Palestinian parliament in 2006 as a member of the independent Third Way Party. This government was not the brainchild of one person and ...

Fayyad cancels Jerusalem visit after Israel warning
By Mohammed Assadi Ramallah, West Bank | Tue Nov 2, 2010 9:43am EDT Ramallah, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Prime Minister canceled an official visit on Tuesday to an area Israel regards as part of Jerusalem after Israel security forces were ordered to prevent such a trip. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad had been scheduled to open a road in Dahiyat al-Salam, which falls within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem as defined by Israel following its annexation of the territory after the 19...

Daybreak: Huge Wins for GOP
As expected, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) lost his seat. • Midterm Elections carried the Republicans to huge victories: They took back the House, but not quite enough seats to take the Senate as well; they also took many governorships and statehouses. [NYT] • Meet your newest Jewish senator(-elect): Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. [NYT] • A senior European diplomat reported that while Economic Sanctions have had a real impact on Iranian life, the country’s leaders...

Israeli Officials Cancel High-Level Talks as British FM Arrives
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s office has sparked another international incident today as British officials condemn what it being called an “ambush” of Foreign Secretary William Hague during his official state visit. Just as Hague was arriving in Israel the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced that they were unilaterally canceling a number of high-level talks with Britain to punish the nation for continuing to claim the Right to prosecute Foreign war criminals. Th...

Palestinian PM to skip East Jerusalem event due to Israeli pressure
Fayyad was to appear at reception in Dahiat al-Salam marking completion of 15 new East Jerusalem schools; police issued warrant banning event at hall, leading owner to move reception to the streets....

Fayyad: Jerusalem suburbs will one day be part of Palestinian capital
Palestinian PM skips inauguration of school in East Jerusalem after Israel issues warrant banning PA events in Jerusalem municipality....

Israel bans Palestinian PM from East Jerusalem event
Public Security Minister Aharonovitch issues warrant forbidding the participation of Palestinian PM Fayyad in ceremony marking PA-sponsored school renovations....

Israeli colonies expand, Palestinians face home demolitions
A Palestinian home demolished in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, July 2009. (Silan Dallal/ActiveStills) Bulldozers, backed by Israeli Soldiers and Police Forces, razed a Bedouin Palestinian encampment in Isawiya, a village northeast of Jerusalem on Wednesday, 27 October. Israeli forces destroyed tents and other structures that were home to six families, according to Ma'an News Agency ("Israel Razes Bedouin Camp," 27 October 2010). "Hani al-Eisaway of the Isawiya Land Defense committee sai...

Clinton to meet Israel PM Netanyahu in U.S. next week
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the U.S. next week, Clinton said at a News Conference in Wellington Thursday during a visit to New Zealand. (Reporting by Adrian Bathgate) Elections 2010 Politics ...

US Proposal: Israel to Lease Jordan Valley from PA
Rumors are growing of an American proposal for Israel to lease the Jordan Valley from the Palestinan Authority. According to a report broadcast Monday on IDF Army Radio, sources in Jerusalem have confirmed that Washington suggested the plan to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister, who is headed to the United States this week to meet with Vice President Joe Biden, allegedly has agreed to the idea. The only question is the length of the contract: reportedly the United States recom...

PA Wants Security Presence in Area C
The visit this week by Finland’s President to the Palestinian Authority was used by PA leadership to emphasize its positions regarding the current negotiations and a future political settlement with Israel. During a joint Press Conference in Ramallah with Finnish President Tarja Halonen, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that the issue of defining Israel as a Jewish State does not apply to the Arabs since PA leadership has already recognized Israel in the mutual recognition document signed in...

Rachel's tomb - In Context
Ok. For the record: The "Ibrahimi Mosque" (i.e., the Tomb of the [Jewish] Patriarchs) and the "Bilal Mosque" (known universally -- until just a few years ago -- as Rachel's Tomb) are and have always been Historic Jewish Sites and have been, with complete justification, so claimed by the Jewish People for the past 2900 years or so (see, Genesis, chapters 23 and 35). This is not new. This is not news. Revisionist history, invented out of whole cloth, is the order of the day. This analysis, writ...

Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel - Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
Stand up against Hebron Settlers! Media Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it November 3, New York, NY – Africa Israel, the flagship company of Israeli Billionaire Lev Leviev, announced this week that it is no longer involved in Israeli settlement projects and that it has no plans for future settlement activities. Africa Israel subsequently denied that this was a political decision. However, in the last few years numerous o...

Diplomats say China pushing European countries to avoid Nobel ceremony for activist Liu Xiaobo
Beijing — China is pressuring European governments to avoid the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for imprisoned Democracy Activist Liu Xiaobo and not make any statements in support of him, several Diplomats in Beijing said Thursday. The Chinese Embassy in Oslo has sent official letters to a number of European embassies in the Norwegian capital asking them not to attend the Dec. 10 ceremony, two Western Diplomats said. According to one of the Diplomats who said he has seen the letter, China ci...

Diplomats say China pushing European countries to avoid Nobel ceremony for activist Liu Xiaobo
Beijing — China is pressuring European governments to avoid the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for imprisoned Democracy Activist Liu Xiaobo and not make any statements in support of him, several Diplomats in Beijing said Thursday. The Chinese Embassy in Oslo has sent official letters to a number of European embassies in the Norwegian capital asking them not to attend the Dec. 10 ceremony, two Western Diplomats said. According to one of the Diplomats who said he has seen the letter, China ci...

China pressures European governments over Nobel
BEIJING (AP) — China is pressuring European governments to avoid the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for imprisoned Democracy Activist Liu Xiaobo and not make any statements in support of him, several Diplomats in Beijing said Thursday. The Chinese Embassy in Oslo has sent official letters to a number of European embassies in the Norwegian capital asking them not to attend the Dec. 10 ceremony, two Western Diplomats said. According to one of the Diplomats who said he has seen the letter, China ...

Netanyahu says will meet Hillary Clinton during U.S. visit
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would meet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a U.S. visit next week in addition to previously announced Talks with Vice President Joe Biden. In a Speech to parliament, Netanyahu again voiced strong criticism of the Palestinian Authority, which has suspended Peace Talks over his refusal to resume a partial freeze of construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. "The truth is, there is grea...