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Wednesday June 19, 2013
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Netanyahu: Rohani has no say in Iran's nuclear program
Prime minister says newly elected Iranian president's pledge of "nuclear transparency" is empty as he will have to yield to Ayatollah Khamenei's decrees • Rohani: World should seize chance for constructive interaction with Iran.
 
Boaz Bismuth | Opportunity is a matter of perception
Khamenei won't wake up tomorrow morning a changed man. Neither will Obama. Rohani lets both of them hold onto their beliefs because he wears both hats -- president of Iran and peddler of fantasies.
 
Isi Leibler | It's time for a Zionist chief rabbi
The early chief rabbis were passionately Zionist and regarded as moral leaders. Somewhere along the line, the Chief Rabbinate became rabidly anti-Zionist.
Ruthie Blum | Bad news about Iran
Rohani's aim is not to reform Iran's policies but to present them in a better light so that the West will leave Iran alone.
Dr. Gabi Avital | Organ donation is a matter of conscience
How can an act of altruism be an obligation required of citizens?
Yael Lerner | Saving lives is the highest value
While words like "coercion," "undemocratic" and "insensitive invasion of the private sphere" have been thrown around, my thoughts primarily go to the people whose lives will be saved.
Suspected price-tag raid in Abu Ghosh: Vandals scrawl 'Arabs out'
Tires of 28 cars slashed, "Racism or assimilation" scrawled on walls in Israeli-Arab town of Abu Ghosh • Local resident: Someone is trying to harm the unique coexistence we have here • Economy and Trade Minister Bennett: Attack is immoral, un-Jewish.
I will seek a demilitarized Palestinian state, says Netanyahu
Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett's remarks that the two-state solution has reached a "dead end" prompts angry responses from both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli coalition • PA official: Bennett's comments are "dangerous."
Dan Margalit | The high price of words
It is shortsighted for coalition ministers and MKs to speak out against the two-state solution.
Bill Clinton: Israel must make peace to survive
Former U.S. president attends 90th birthday event for President Shimon Peres: "The rest of you are here celebrating his wisdom -- I came to get his diet" • Clinton calls Peres "the world's greatest visionary."
Barbra Streisand chides haredim for treatment of women
"It's distressing to read about women in Israel being forced to sit in the back of a bus or ... having metal chairs hurled at them when they intend to peacefully and legally pray," says entertainer • Streisand to perform at Peres' 90th birthday gala.
Peres: US is right to arm Syrian rebels
In Reuters interview, Israeli president says U.S. weapons in rebels' hands pose no risk to Israel • Peres dismisses possibility that Israel may launch unilateral strike on Iran's nuclear facilities • Urges PA to resume peace talks.
David M. Weinberg | Facing the real tomorrow?
The Peres Presidential Conference offers gobbledygook: a foggy, fuzzy brand of "imagination, vision and a considerable amount of defiance," instead of fortifying participants with intellectual value that will help them defend Israel.
Pet Shop Boys rejects calls to boycott Israel
Pro-Palestinian group tries to pressure British duo to cancel their upcoming Tel Aviv concert, arguing that performing would constitute tacit support for Israel's policies of discrimination • Singer Neil Tennant: Israel is not apartheid South Africa.
Litzman: Forcing organ donation is secular coercion
United Torah Judaism MK levels harsh criticism at Health Minister Yael German over her plan to have Israelis automatically added to organ donor pool • "This proposal is clearly anti-religious and has no place in a democratic state," he says.
Lieberman seeks polygraph tests to root out Knesset leaks
Chairman of Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee irked by leaks to the media, wants to find culprits, Channel 2 says • Knesset's legal adviser says MKs have immunity from such measures.
Seeking influence, China to host summit backing two-state solution
Participants in the two-day meeting include U.N. officials, diplomats, academics, and present and former members of the Palestinian and Israeli parliaments • China is hoping to expand its influence in the Middle East.
Group seeks probe of seizure of moshav land for Arab village
The Ometz social justice group says the Shas party's integrity is at stake over a proposal to "seize" Moshav Beit Hanina's lands to build housing units for Jisr az-Zarqa • Haifa official says it is "hard to believe" proposal will see daylight.
Passions run high as Knesset okays national budget
Finance minister's biennial budget, economic arrangements law pass first Knesset reading • Proposals head the to the Knesset Finance Committee, headed by Habayit Hayehudi MK Slomiansky • Lapid defends his budget: We need successful business people.
Assad: Europe will 'pay price' if it arms rebels
German newspaper quotes Syrian president as warning EU that if arms are shipped to rebels, "the backyard of Europe will become terrorist" • Says EU has "no alternative" but to cooperate with Syria.