Haaretz

BERLIN - Germany's Federal Court of Justice is set to decide whether to release 4,500 pages of classified documents relating to the escape to Argentina of Adolf Eichmann and his subsequent capture by Israeli agents. ...

The custom is for every American president to put together a working paper that re-examines the government's stance on nuclear weapons. The document is in effect a summary of the main principles of the incoming administration's nuclear policy and a statement of the new president's intentions on the future of America's nuclear stockpile. Two presidents have produced such documents since the end of the Cold War: Bill Clinton in 1994 and George W. Bush in 2002. Now it's Barack Obama's turn to publish a statement that will set out his nuclear policy. ...

The custom is for every American president to put together a working paper that re-examines the government's stance on nuclear weapons. The document is in effect a summary of the main principles of the incoming administration's nuclear policy and a statement of the new president's intentions on the future of America's nuclear stockpile. Two presidents have produced such documents since the end of the Cold War: Bill Clinton in 1994 and George W. Bush in 2002. Now it's Barack Obama's turn to publish a statement that will set out his nuclear policy. ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel into a serious crisis in relations with the United States and to a collapse in peace talks with the Palestinians just when they were to be resumed. ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel into a serious crisis in relations with the United States and to a collapse in peace talks with the Palestinians just when they were to be resumed. ...

A widely predicted crisis between Israel and the United States upon Benjamin Netanyahu taking office as prime minister finally erupted this weekend. ...

A widely predicted crisis between Israel and the United States upon Benjamin Netanyahu taking office as prime minister finally erupted this weekend. ...

When six teenagers allegedly beat a Guatemalan immigrant into a coma last July in a Boston suburb, a Jewish and Latino coalition called the attack hateful. ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said the he was surprised by the U.S. administration's public condemnation of his government, after he apologized over Israel's announcement that it would construct 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. ...

Polish media on Saturday said that vandals have sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on a Holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp. ...

There is "consensus enough" between European Union members to approve more EU sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program if the United Nations Security Council stalls on the issue, Finland's foreign minister said Saturday. ...

The European Union could use closer trade ties as leverage to urge Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, the EU's top diplomat said on Saturday ahead of a trip to the region. ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, winding up a visit to Tunisia, on Saturday blamed Iran for blocking reconciliation between his Fatah organization and the radical Shiite faction Hamas. ...

A senior Hamas official told a Qatar based newspaper on Saturday that Israel's National Security Adviser had visited Cairo on Friday and requested that Egypt renew mediation between Israel and Hamas over the freeing of captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. ...

A suicide bomber targeting security forces in Pakistan on Saturday killed at least 11 people and wounded 35, police said, part of a renewed Taliban push against the government after one of the biggest security crackdowns in years. ...

What does the Arab (or Muslim) street think? Whom does it hate and whom does it admire? These questions have reverberated among us from the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser to Hassan Nasrallah today. But who speaks on behalf of this "street"? Due to the lack of reliable public opinion polls, authoritarian rule and media outlets that are trained what to say, it's not surprising that the assessments of the man on the street are so incomprehensible and based merely on impressions and gut feelings. ...

About the MESS Report ...

According to the well-known adage, we need to choose whether to be part of the problem or part of the solution. Visiting the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, I observed that the organization has apparently chosen to be both. Founded in 2006 with a mission of "strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe," the UNHRC is today composed of only 49 percent "free" member states, as classified by the democracy watchdog Freedom House. The remaining small majority includes such states as China, with the highest execution rate on earth, and Saudi Arabia, which still employs flogging and amputation as means of punishment. In the latest absurdity, the council will vote in May on Iran's request to take its place among the organization's 47 member states, and some predict it has a reasonable chance of attaining one of the four seats allotted to countries in the Asian region. ...

A recent wave of bellicose rhetoric between Israel and Lebanon has fueled fears the two hostile neighbors could be headed for another conflict, the UN special coordinator for Lebanon said on Friday. ...

International community will not recognize unilateral action, say UN, EU, U.S. and Russia.