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Turkey's PM says Israeli ties not to be normalized unles promises met
Source : Agencies | 24 Mar 2013
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said normalization with Israel will not happen unless Israel holds up with its end of the deal and implements what it promised.
“When implementation [of Israel promises] takes place, there will be normalization [between Turkey and Israel]. But if implementation does not realize, they should not take offense. We are saying it very open and clear,” Erdoğan told the cheering crowd in Eskişehir on Sunday.
Palestinian Authority Calls on Int'l Community to Pressure Israel Over Financial Stranglehood
By Jacob Chamberlain | Agencies | 20 Mar 2013
Warning of possible "political collapse," the Palestinian Authority has issued a report calling on the international community for help to ease its financial crisis, to pressure Israel to release Palestinian-owned revenues held hostage since its bid for UN status, and for a life without checkpoints in the occupied West Bank.
Israel harms Palestinian economy: report
Source : Al Jazeera | 13 Mar 2013
Israeli restrictions and closures coupled with the worsening fiscal situation of the Palestinian Authority is causing "lasting damage" to the competitiveness of the Palestinian economy, the World Bank warns.
In a report issued on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of global donors in Brussels on March 19, the World Bank explored the long-term damage to the economy as a result of the worsening financial crisis facing the Ramallah-based government and the absence of peace talks, which have been stalled since late September 2010.
Israel, Turkey row over Zionism deepens rift between ex-allies
By Reuters | 01 Mar 2013
Israel’s prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart on Thursday of making a “dark and false” statement by calling Zionism a crime against humanity- a comment likely to hit efforts to repair ties between the two former allies.
The Turkish premier’s statement, made at a U.N. meeting in Vienna a day earlier, was also condemned by the head of Europe’s main rabbinical group who called it a “hateful attack” on Jews.
Israel boycotts U.N. human rights council, first ever country to do so
By Al Arabiya | 30 Jan 2013
Israel has boycotted a review by the U.N.’s human rights council, the first time any country has done so reported the BBC on Wednesday.
Israel Admits Forced Birth Control For Ethiopian Immigrants
By Beth Brogan | Agencies | 30 Jan 2013
The Israeli government has admitted to routinely forcing women of Ethiopian origin to be injected with long-acting birth control.
Israel planning unprecedented east Jerusalem building
By Associated Press | 28 Dec 2012
Israel is planning its biggest construction surge in east Jerusalem in decades in a move that critics argue would cement its grip on the contested territory, further complicate any prospects for peace with the Palestinians, and badly rattle Israel’s already rocky relations with the rest of the world.
Ex-Israeli PM says would apologize to Turkey over ship attack
Source : Anadolu Agency | 26 Dec 2012
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has suggested that he would have apologized to Turkey over the killing of nine Turks during a raid on the Mavi Marmara ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
“If I were prime minister, I would have apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Turkish people because civilians lost their life,” Olmert said while speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
Israel to withhold Palestinian funds until March, at least
By Reuters | 12 Dec 2012
Israel will withhold tax revenues from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration until March at least in response to his statehood campaign at the United Nations, Israel’s foreign minister said.
Under interim peace deals, Israel collects some $100 million a month in duties on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank -- money that is badly needed to pay public sector salaries.
