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Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel in solidarity with Palestinians
Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Hawking, 71, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, had accepted…
Israel’s Peres accuses Iran of instigating Gaza violence
WASHINGTON — Israel’s President Shimon Peres accused Iran of encouraging the Palestinians to continue rocket attacks on Israel rather than negotiating a ceasefire, saying “they are out of their mind.” At the same time, Peres praised Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi for the constructive role he has played in the intensifying…
Binyamin Netanyahu’s aides launch stinging rebuke to Israeli president Shimon Peres
Prime minister’s office says Shimon Peres should not speak out on Iran as he is too prone to mistakes Aides to Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a stinging rebuke to the country’s president, Shimon Peres, after he said that Israel should not act alone in launching military action against…
Israel’s Peres dismisses Holocaust, Iran comparison
President Shimon Peres on Thursday distanced himself from the Israeli premier’s comparison between the Holocaust and the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme. “It’s not the same thing,” Peres told the Ynet website of Yediot Aharonot newspaper in an interview for Israel’s independence day. “Holocaust is one thing and Iran is another. The comparison is out of place. But…
Shimon Peres wants to be your Facebook friend …’for peace’
Jews are the people of the Book but also the “people of the Facebook,” Israeli President Shimon Peres joked about his flashy new page — complete with electro-pop video — on the site. “You have to speak the language of the young people,” the 88-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner laughed,…
Iran remains defiant on nuclear program
Iran vowed Wednesday it “will not budge an iota” from its nuclear path despite a new UN report hardening suspicions it is seeking atomic weapons, as an Iranian general warned Israel of “destruction” if it launched an attack. The words of defiance fell while the United States and its allies said they were…
Muslim, Christian tombs defaced in Israel
Vandals defaced graves in two cemeteries, one Muslim and the other Christian, with anti-Arab graffiti in Jaffa south of Tel Aviv, Israeli police said on Saturday. The vandals wrote “Death to Arabs” and “Price Tag” on 22 graves in the Muslim cemetery and on four in the Christian burial ground,…
Obama asks Congress for $205 million to upgrade Israeli missile defenses
President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve 205 million dollars to help Israel deploy an anti-missile defense system, the White House said Thursday. “The president recognizes the threat missiles and rockets fired by Hamas and Hezbollah pose to Israelis, and has therefore decided to seek funding from Congress to…
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