AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, ISRAEL'S OPENLY RACIST FOREIGN MINISTER, IS COMING TO LONDON ...to meet the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, as part of his bid to strengthen ties between Europe and Israel. PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL'S RACIST FOREIGN MINISTER WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 10.30AM - 12.00 NOON FOREIGN OFFICE, WHITEHALL, LONDON Protest called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, British Muslim Initiative, CND, Palestinian Forum in Britain. JOIN US to show our disgust at the government's willingness to meet with Israeli warmongers. During Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza, Avigdor Lieberman threatened action 'just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II', when the US used nuclear bombs to obliterate two cities. He has called for the execution of elected Arab members of Israel's parliament if they have any contact with Hamas, and threatene...

From PIC RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The new American administration pledged to continue cooperating with the new Israeli government to be formed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing optimism about the future of peace talks in the Middle East. more

Israel is continually held up as the only democracy in the Middle East. It's a lie. Israel has banned the Arab parties from standing in the forthcoming general election. The hard right are set to make gains - presumably on the basis that Olmert and Livni should have killed more Palestinian children. from the Times Israel: Hardline nationalists savour pre-election boost in polls Israeli politics are set to take a sharp turn to the right at next week’s general elections, with hardline nationalist parties surging ahead in polls in response to the war in Gaza. In a measure of the resurgence of the Israeli Right, the hawkish party Yisrael Beitenu may even squeeze out the Labour Party to take third place in the vote on February 10. That would mark a distinct shift in the political landscape. Labour was Israel’s founding party and ruled for decades before slowly losing out to new right-wing parties such as Likud in the 1970s.