Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to take a series of practical steps to de-escalate the crisis over the Temple Mount, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
''We won't accept any limitation on building in Jewish areas of Jerusalem and there will be no compromise about it,'' Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday at a news conference with his visiting German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Paris welcomed a decision by Canada to extradite to France Hassan Diab, who is a suspect in a deadly Paris synagogue bombing, after the Canadese Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.
US vice president speaks at Jewish Federations General Assembly, says of US-Israel ties: ''We disagree with one another, we love one another and we drive one another crazy. That's what friends do.''
On a visit to Gaza and Ramallah on Saturday, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that Jerusalem ''should be the capital of two states''.On a visit to Gaza and Ramallah on Saturday, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that Jerusalem ''should be the capital of two states''.
French Socialists MPs are preparing a resolution that would call on the French government to recognize a state of Palestine, weeks after a similar vot in the Britih parliament and in the wake of Sweden’s recent decision to make such a move.
