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The poll is at the Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. The poll can be found at the following URL: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-under-jewish-pressure-over-palestine-20121128-2ad9t.html#poll and scroll to the bottom of the linked page. It reads: How should Australia vote on a bid to give Palestinians UN observer status? Please vote "no". Thanks.

Unfortunately, we're about to find out.

I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama's re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” — as Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom argued on Israel Radio this morning. But Shalom is putting a pretty face on a forbidding situation. Obama’s re-election means that Ehud Olmert is going to run against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Jan. 2013 Israeli election. It means that Obama is going to intervene aggressively in our election to boost Olmert. It means that a push for immediate Palestinian statehood...

I got an email from the Romney campaign the other day. I have never visited his website or given out my email to any other campaign of any sort EXCEPT I donated to McCain/Palin in '08. What do you guys think? Did John McCain give Mitt Romney his email list of those who supported the McCain/Palin campaign? I am beyond annoyed.

Western Australia's big chill is continuing with Perth marking a record-breaking 12 consecutive nights of temperatures below 5C, according to the WA Bureau of Meteorology. Temperatures dipped to a wintry 0.3C in the city overnight, with Jandakot recording a freezing minus -1.4C at 5.22am. The bureau says it is the longest cold snap on record, beating a July 1997 stretch of nine straight nights of 5C or below. Perth Zoo pampers animals with hot rocks, sun lamps and heated enclosures WA climate services technical officer Michelle Dalpozzo said a succession of high pressure cells, with clear skies and lights winds...

BESET by questions about the future of Jerusalem in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state's disputed claim on the city. Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament, Judaism's core canon. "As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check," he said.

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama issued a special statement to the people of Israel on Monday, congratulating the Jewish state on its 62nd Independence Day. "Israel remains our important partner and key strategic ally in the Middle East," the American president said, "and I am confident that our special relationship will only be strengthened in the months and years to come." Obama began his statement by saying, "On the 62nd Anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, I join the American people in congratulating the government and people of Israel on this celebration of their independence. "To...

FORTY-three years ago, this hill, Ammunition Hill, symbolized a wounded city, a city cut in half, and in its heart- a wall. Today, along the outline of that same wall, there are light-rail tracks that will connect the flourishing Jerusalem neighborhoods established and built during the decades that have passed since the very day we are marking here today. Twice we have paid the heavy cost of liberating the siege on Jerusalem–first, during the War of Independence, and again, when the city was bombed during the Six Day War. One of the most decisive battles of that campaign was fought...

WASHINGTON - Perhaps the tension between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama isn't personal but partisan, in the words of a member of Bill Clinton's White House administration. He suggests that the problem isn't that Netanyahu is a "Likudnik," but that, at his core, he is a Republican. Half-joking and half-serious, the official explained to me that when one hears Netanyahu's creed about economic affairs, it's like listening to a conservative Republican senator. That - maybe - explains the tension between the two leaders. Perhaps now that Obama has succeeded in passing his health care reform bill,...

Members of the Obama Administration, Senators, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Leaders of AIPAC, Ladies and Gentlemen, As the world faces monumental challenges, I know that Israel and America will face them together. We stand together because we are fired by the same ideals and inspired by the same dream the dream of achieving security, prosperity and peace. This dream seemed impossible to many Jews a century ago. This month, my father celebrated his one-hundredth birthday. When he was born, the Czars ruled Russia, the British Empire spanned the globe and the Ottomans ruled the Middle East. During his lifetime, all...

LONDON (Reuters) - Melting ice in West Antarctica could add tens of centimeters to rising sea levels over the next century, according to a report by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) on Tuesday. Global sea levels are estimated to rise by a total of 1.4 meters (4 feet 7 inches) by 2100. "We can see the West Antarctic glaciers are shrinking at a rate fast enough to contribute to a sea level rise of 1.4 m by 2100 but it will be no more than that," SCAR executive director Colin Summerhayes told reporters at a media briefing in...

Must be a Saudi prince.

Expressions on the Vets faces are priceless.

General Debate of the 64th General Assembly Statement by H.E. Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel The United Nations, New York, 24 September 2009 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and...

ACORN took action Wednesday to repair its image after two undercover bloggers posing as a pimp and prostitute videotaped some of the organization's representatives apparently assisting the pair in sex trafficking schemes in San Bernardino and three East Coast cities. "As a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees, I am, in consultation with ACORN's Executive Committee, immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN's service programs until completion of an independent review," said ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, in a statement. As it looks internally, ACORN is also planning to sue the bloggers for...

The Obama Administration has named Jeffrey Bleich as US Ambassador to Australia. Does anyone have any dirt on him that would normally not be found in the mainstream media reports on his appointment? I'm in Australia and I'm trying to research this lib. Van Jones style dirt would be awesome but I'll settle for just super-lib stuff. Thanks.

The world frets about the rise in fuel prices and the environmental damage caused by motor pollution. An inventor in Kiryat Gat says he has the solution. Hugo Tour, a retired Israel Air Force officer, claims the engine he's been working on for three years is the biggest breakthrough in motor technology since the invention of the internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto in 1876. At his home laboratory in Kiryat Gat, Tour has built a working bench-prototype of a split cycle engine, which he predicts will improve engine efficiency by up to 100 percent and reduce carbon emissions by...

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