Iranian President arrives in Brazil fearing isolation

The brazilian rejection of the iranian claim sparked a
yellow sign behind the scenes of the diplomacy.

The decision of the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to reject the request of the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for an official meeting during the Rio +20 soured the relationship Brasilia-Tehran, which had narrowed the friendship between Ahmadinejad and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, say diplomats gathered at Riocentro. Behind the scenes of the conference, the mood among delegates Iranians could not be worse, though, officially, Tehran diplomats strive to show tranquility.

'Son of Hamas' arrives in Israel

Photo: Deborah Danan

Mosab Hasan Youssef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Youssef, arrived in Israel Wednesday evening from the US. Despite receiving an official invitation to visit the Knesset from Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud), Youssef was detained at passport control for over three hours of questioning before eventually being allowed to proceed.

Israel's Conflict as Game Theory

The arab-israeli conflict in a
complex game.

Two men—let us call them Reuben and Simon—are put in a small room containing a suitcase filled with bills Israel has to change certain basic perceptions in order to improve her chances in the negotiations game with the Arabs, totaling $100,000. The owner of the suitcase announces the following: “I will give you the money in the suitcase under one condition…you have to negotiate an agreement on how to divide it. That is the only way I will agree to give you the money.”

68% of Arab-Israelis prefer to live in Israel

Some 80% of Arabs living in Israel blame Jews for the Nakba, but 60% of them are resigned to Israel as a state with a Jewish majority, the Index of Arab-Jewish Relations for 2011, conducted by Prof. Sami Samuha of the University of Haifa shows.

The full results of the survey, which Samuha has run annually for the last 30 years, are due to be announced at a university conference on Thursday.