Iceland’s Foreign Ministry renounces boycott on Israel
A day after the City Council in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, decided to impose a full boycott on Israeli products, the country’s Foreign Ministry clarified that it does not stand behind the local council’s decision. “The City Council’s decision does not represent Iceland’s relationship with Israel,” Iceland’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Urdur Gunnarsdóttir stated in a conversation with Channel 2 Online News.Israeli bus set ablaze by firebomb
“The City Council of Reykjavik is one of 74 local authorities in Iceland,” Gunnarsdóttir explained. “Like in other municipalities, the Reykjavik City Council is allowed to formulate a policy with regards to its local issues, including its purchasing policy, so long as it is in accordance with national legislation.”
The Spokeswoman added that the council’s decision “is not in line with Iceland’s foreign policy” and clarified that the capital’s decision should not be understood as a message to Israelis who wish to visit the country. “Israeli tourists and other visitors from Israel are of course welcome to Iceland, just as they have been up till now,” she explained.
An Israeli bus was set on fire late Thursday in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud after Palestinians hurled a firebomb at the vehicle, witnesses said.Game-changer: Iran’s involvement with 9/11
Locals said that the bus went up in flames after youths targeted it while driving through the neighborhood. Israeli forces arrived in the area and cordoned off the scene of the incident.
Rocks were reportedly thrown at the vehicle before the firebomb, with no injuries reported.
Israeli media reported that the driver of the Egged bus was Palestinian, and fled the vehicle following the rock attacks.
The most remarkable aspect of this US surrender to Iran is that the Iranian regime is not some hypothetical threat. It has been perpetrating acts of war against Western interests for more than three decades – including playing a key role in the 9/11 attacks on America.
That’s not just my opinion. It’s the view of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In a judgment that has received virtually no attention, federal Judge George B. Daniels found in December 2011 that Iran, with the participation of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was directly and heavily involved in the 9/11 atrocities.
Some of the families of the 9/11 victims sought to enforce a measure of justice in the New York court against the atrocities’ perpetrators.
In 2011, Daniels agreed that Iran, Khamenei, former Iranian president Ali Rafsanjani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah and various Iranian government departments, government-owned companies and the central bank, had all provided direct and material aid and support to al-Qaida in carrying out the 9/11 attacks.
The Palestinians, 100 years of catastrophic mismanagement
It is 100 years since the Ottomans ruled the Middle East region, and today Israel is the single oasis of freedom in a bubbling regional mess. Anyone, who like I have, has grappled with the complex history of the Israel/Arab conflict, must have spent long periods attempting to unravel the events that were to bring about such suffering on both sides of the great divide. Like any journey in which the travellers become truly lost, there were many crossroads along the way, and some of the decisions made were to have a disastrous influence and carry long lasting irreversible consequences. The conflict as we know it today was not a forgone conclusion from the start, and given some strong and well-intended leadership, it could all have been very different. There have also been many ‘second chances’ , so these, in my opinion, are the 11 greatest mistakes made by the Arab leadership in and around Palestine.