WADI FUQEEN, West Bank (AP) — Asil Manasra, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, was in her eighth month of intensive treatment at an Israeli hospital for complications arising from a long bout of tuberculosis when she was abruptly forced to stop the visits. A week after she was discharged, she died. It’s impossible to know how much longer Asil might have lived, … Read More
SDEROT, Israel — Brightly painted walls surround a mini-soccer field, video games, a climbing wall and play areas. The converted warehouse also has a new thick concrete roof, a half dozen shelters and an alert system to give a 15-second warning of incoming rockets. The children of Sderot finally have a safe place to play. The fortified indoor playground got a … Read More
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Gestapo officer forced Jewish author and artist Bruno Schulz to paint fairy tale characters on the walls of a nursery in an occupied Polish village in 1941. A Nazi sergeant shot and killed Schulz a year later, and his colorful murals were forgotten for decades. Israel’s Holocaust museum presented Schulz’s paintings on Friday, eight years after … Read More
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima Party and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud appear deadlocked on election day in Israel. The AP’s Aron Heller reports for WPTF Radio (Raleigh, N.C.) from Jerusalem. [url href=”http://aronheller.com/articles/lieberman-poised-for-election-gains/”]Watch the Video[/url] [url href=”http://audioboo.fm/boos/441118-israeli-elections-may-be-too-close-to-call” content=”Listen to Report” target=external]
Exit polls show Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Kadima Party would eke out a surprising victory in Israel’s election, but a strong showing by hard-line rivals will make it difficult to form a coalition government. The AP’s Aron Heller reports from Tel Aviv. [url href=”http://aronheller.com/articles/lieberman-poised-for-election-gains/”] [url href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME5othQT8Jg” content=”Watch the Video” target=external]
JERUSALEM—The hottest slogan in the Israeli election campaign is a not-so-veiled attack on the country’s Arab minority: “Without loyalty, there is no citizenship.” The motto is plastered nationwide across buses and billboards. Above it looms the dour, bearded face of its mastermind, Avigdor Lieberman, who is enjoying a surge in opinion polls that indicate he could emerge as the political … Read More
Ahead of elections, Israel threatens to hit Hamas hard after rocket attacks. The AP’s Aron Heller reports for WPTF Radio (Raleigh, N.C.) from Jerusalem. [url href=”http://aronheller.com/articles/israel-rules-out-hamas-contacts-threatens-force/”]Watch the Video[/url] [url href=”http://audioboo.fm/boos/441107-israel-threatens-to-hit-hamas-hard-after-rocket-attack” content=”Listen to Report” target=external]
HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) _ Israel’s foreign minister threatened Monday to keep hitting Hamas as long as it attacks Israel, ruling out negotiations with the Islamic rulers of Gaza just eight days before national elections in which she is running for prime minister. Tzipi Livni’s tough statement came as a Hamas delegation went to Cairo for talks Tuesday with Egyptian mediators … Read More
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ Even in the world of politics and its strange bedfellows, this coalition is odder than most. On Tuesday, a party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined forces with the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party for a run at Israel’s parliament. The new party launched its campaign in a near-empty, underground, graffiti-filled nightclub in south Tel Aviv, pledging … Read More
JERUSALEM (AP) — The use of Nazi imagery at recent anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe has fanned the flames of anti-Semitism and incited violence against Jews, the head of Israel’s Holocaust memorial said Monday. Protests against Israel’s Gaza offensive have included signs and slogans comparing Israeli soldiers to German troops, the Gaza Strip to the Auschwitz death camp and the Jewish … Read More
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft pounded 50 Hamas positions early Saturday, keeping pressure on the Islamic militant group as the country’s top leaders prepared for a crucial vote on whether to end Israel’s punishing three-week-long campaign against Gaza’s rulers. The vote on the Egyptian-brokered truce proposal follows a signing of a “memorandum of understanding” in Washington between Secretary of State … Read More
RAMON AIRFORCE BASE, Israel (AP) – Apache helicopter pilot Capt. Orr, who has flown dozens of combat missions over Gaza the past few weeks, on Tuesday said he felt sorry for civilian casualties and had aborted missions to avoid them. He and his fellow fighter pilots are responsible for the vast majority of damage and casualties in Gaza, since Israel … Read More
JERUSALEM _ Plumes of smoke engulfed a neighborhood east of Gaza City on Wednesday as Israel’s leaders considered a peace plan put forth by France and Egypt on the 12th day of their campaign to stop rocket fire into Israel. Sounds of heavy gunfire engulfed the Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City and Israel said it struck 40 Hamas targets … Read More
Rockets continue to fall in Israel as ground offensive picks up. The AP’s Aron Heller reports for KNX Radio (Los Angeles) from Jerusalem. [url href=”http://aronheller.com/articles/israel-considers-peace-plan/”]Watch the Video[/url] [url href=”http://audioboo.fm/boos/441112-israeli-ground-offensive-into-gaza-underway” content=”Listen to Report” target=external]
A Hamas strongman in Gaza is urging Palestinians to ‘crush’ the invading Israeli forces and to target Israeli civilians. The AP’s Aron Heller reports from Jerusalem. [url href=”http://aronheller.com/articles/israel-considers-peace-plan/”] [url href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?index=21&feature=PlayList&v=JIafVUQTjCE&list=PL48608224C8FB831C” content=”Watch the Video” target=external]