Wednesday 11, c.8.30 AM: In north Teheran, Iran – Israel's Mossad (or America's CIA according to former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer Philip Giraldi) assassinates MOSTAFA AHMADI ROSHAN (32), a nuclear scientist who served also as a university professor in Teheran (and killing his driver).

Friday 13: In New Orleans, USA – America's Republican National Committee (RNC) adopts a resolution implicitly supporting the annexation of the whole of Palestine by Israel. The actual text of their resolution reads –

8: In Jerusalem, Israel – Another three religious Jewish men are arrested, bringing to nine the number arrested in Jerusalem's largest-ever child sex-abuse case. They are suspected of sexually abusing over 70 children in its Nahlaot neighbourhood, some as young as one-year-old beginning in 2006.

the USA – The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, ANDREW ADLER, suggests in his newspaper, as a third alternative after a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah or attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran –

Friday 20: In the USA – ADLER apologises the following day. But ABRAHAM FOXMAN, National Director of the Jewish 'Anti-Defamation League' states –

Sunday 22: In Israel – Israel's Cabinet renews its temporary race-based 'Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law' which prohibits Palestinians married to Israelis from acquiring citizenship. Israel's High Court of Justice is divided over the legitimacy of the law, six justices supporting the law and five opposing it's renewal, including the court's outgoing president, Justice DORIT BEINISCH who states that –

Israel – The number of Palestinians held by Israel in prison indefinitely without trial ('administrative detention') rises to 309.

Monday 13: In New Delhi, India – Two cars of the Israeli embassy are attacked with explosive devices placed by motorcycle, 'moderately' injuring TALI YEHOSHUA-KOREN the wife of Israel's Defense Ministry’s representative to India, a local employee and two passersby. The attacks used the same method used by Israel's Mossad in Teheran, Iran, earlier this year.
Israel blames Iran, which in turn denies any involvement and suspects that Israel's Mossad set up the 'attacks' to help justify a planned future Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear development facilities.

also accuses Israel of working with terrorist group 'MEK', known as the People's Mujahideen, in the killing of Iranian scientists.

Wednesday 15: In Tokyo, Japan – Japan's Prime Minister YOSHIHIKO NODA urges visiting Israeli Defense Minister EHUD BARAK not to resort to military action against Iran over its 'nuclear ambitions'.

Friday 17: In Teheran, Iran – Iran's deputy intelligence chief AHANGARAN reports that the joint US-Israel engineered Stuxnet internet worm has now infected 16,000 computers. (See: 29 november 2010, and 15 January 2011).

Sunday 19: British Foreign Secretary WILLIAM HAGUE warns Israel that military action against Iran would not be "a wise thing".

Thursday 23: A spokesperson for the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy CATHERINE ASHTON says that she is –

In New York – The United Nations Security Council issues a unanimous statement strongly condemning attacks on Israeli diplomats, after the recent attacks in Georgia and India.

Friday 24: In Cape Town, South Africa – NATHAN GEFFEN, Visiting Academic, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, publishes a bravely honest article 'Why is Israel singled out?' in the Cape Times newspaper.

In Israel – Israel's state-run 'Israel Aerospace Industries' signs a $1.6 billion arms deal with the authoritarian government of Azerbaijan to sell them military drones, anti-aircraft and missile defense systems, (giving Israel access to Azerbaijan airfields near the border with Iran, according to US Intelligence, but which Azerbaijan denies).

Jerusalem, Israel – Muslim rioters clash with Israeli police on Temple Mount at Al Aqsa Mosque. Jerusalem District Police Commander NISO SHAHAM states that this is the most serious clash in the area since the recent wave of protests erupted two weeks ago after Jewish right-wing leaders (Likud Party hard-liner Moshe Feiglin, etc.) called on Jews to visit the Temple Mount and cleanse the area of Muslims and to destroy their holy sites. (Feiglin subsequently denies his involvement in the public posters calling for this. Feiglin has reportedly visited the Temple Mount on the 19th of every Jewish month for the past 10 years.)

Jerusalem, Israel – Father PIERBATTISTA PIZZABALLA, Catholic Custodian of the Holy Land and head of the Franciscan Order in Israel, calls on Israel's President Shimon Peres to use the power of his office to apprehend those responsible for a number of incidents in the past few weeks in which Christian sites in Jerusalem have been vandalized.
The incidents include slogans painted on –

Saturday 25: In Palestine – Palestinian Prime Minister SALAM FAYYAD issues a statement accusing the international Quartet of ignoring Israel's actions, which lead to Palestinian deaths, while focusing only on renewing diplomatic talks.

Tuesday 28: Residence of Israel's President – ASHER GRUNIS (אשר דן גרוניס‎) is welcomed as the new president of Israel's Supreme Court.
At this event celebrating retiring of Israel's Supreme Court President and inauguration of the new Supreme Court President, Supreme Court Arab Judge, Justice SALIM JOUBRAN, declines to sing Israel's Jewish national anthem.

(23.6% of Israel's population are not Jewish according to CIA World Fact Book).

Thursday 1: In Moscow, Russian Federation – The Chabad Jewish Rabbi, BEREL LAZAR, states that most Russian Jews are expected to support presidential candidate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Friday 2: In Jerusalem, Israel – The heaviest fall of snow in this city in four years (3cm), which causes the suspension of Egged bus services.

Monday 5: In Israel – The 'Public Committee Against Torture In Israel' submits affidavits by Palestinian women to Attorney General YEHUDA WEINSTEIN describing their humiliation during interrogation by the Shin Bet security service without any charges being laid. Nine individual complaints are sent to the division of the Justice Ministry that investigates the police, and eight complaints are filed with the Military Advocate General.

Tuesday 6: In the USA – America's FBI offers a US$1million reward for information leading to the return of abducted (March 2007) Jewish retired-FBI agent ROBERT LEVINSON, last seen on Iran's Kish island while working on assignment as a private detective.

Wednesday 7: In the UK – Baroness JENNY TONGE is forced to resign as whip of Britain's Liberal Democratic parliamentary party because she had told audience members that: "Israel is not going to be there forever in its present form" at the student union debate on “Is Israel an Apartheid State?” on February 23, 2012, at Middlesex University in the UK.

Palestine, Near Bethlehem – A group of 11 Norwegian students and their teacher join Palestinian farmer YASSIN DA'DOUA on his land to plant 200 olive trees as part of the olive tree planting campaign organized by Joint Advocacy Initiative of East Jerusalem's YMCA and YWCA of Palestine.
Israeli troops try to prevent the planting, claiming the land is Israeli state land, but the farmer produces his documents proving his ownership, both from the Ottoman period and from the Israeli court which state that he is the private owner of the land.
Thursday Morning 8: A group of Jewish settlers of the nearby illegal Jewish settlement of Aliazar, some of whom (NADIA MATAR) are affiliated to the 'Women in Green', a fascist movement which favours the annexation of Palestine to Israel, storm onto the same Palestinian farmer's land, uproot 100 of the newly planted young olive trees of the previous day and take them away.

Palestine – Israel's Ofer Israeli Military Court sentences Palestinian cameraman HAMZA SULEIMAN BURNAT (19), from Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, to eighteen months imprisonment and a 5000 New Israeli Shekels fine, for photograping the military suppression of non-violent civilian protests against the Separation Wall and illegal Jewish settlements. He was in his graduation year at the time of his abduction and imprisonment by Israel's military four months ago. He was a volunteer cameraman for the Media Center of the Friends of Freedom and Justice Committee

Friday 9: In the US – Israel's ambassador to the United States MICHAEL OREN writes for the Wall Street Journal that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is safe for Christians. He states that –

His misleading statement ignores the expulsion of any Christian by the government of Israel who evangelises Jews, and he pretends that the current exodus of Palestinian Christians from the West Bank and Gaza is caused by increased pressure by Islamist groups such as Hamas.
(See corrective Letter to Oren by director-general of the Latin Patriarchate Schools in Palestine and the parish priest of Ramallah).

Berlin, Germany – The Madame Tussauds wax-museum unveils an exhibit of Jewish 13 -year-old girl ANNE FRANK whose diary, describing her Jewish family's experiences hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam, became one of the most widely read books. Her wax figure (left margin) was created by a London-based team, working closely with a group of expert researchers, who studied documents and historical artifacts relating to the period when Anne Frank lived.

Gaza City and the Strip, Palestine – The Israeli Airforce rockets the car of Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), and two of his associates, killing all three.
In Israel – This causes a barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza in retaliation, which provokes futher Israel airforce attacks on the Gaza Strip killing three and wounding at least 26 Palestinians. Some Gaza rockets penetrate Israel's Iron Dome protection system lightly damaging a Be'er Sheva school.
Sunday 11 March, schools are closed in Ashkelon, Be'er Sheva, Ashdod and other regional councils in South Israel, affecting about 207,000 scholars. Israel's airforce continues it attacks killing and wounding many more Palestinians.
Monday 12, All school classes are cancelled in Israeli towns located within 40 kilometers of the Gaza Strip because of the barrage of rockets by Islamic groups.
A truce, in the violence arising from the assassination, is eventual brokered by Egypt.

Sunday 18: In Jerusalem – At a Christians United For Israel meeting, its American head and founder JOHN HAGEE jokingly compares the late arrival of Israel's right-wing President Netanyahu to the Messiah –

And after Netanyahu's late arrival HAGEE then introduces him with a comparison of his leadership to that of Moses and David, to rapturous applause –

Monday 19: – Christian Peacemaker Team reports on the forced relocation of Palestinian communities (ethnic cleansing) by the Israeli military authorities in area C.

Friday 23: The United Nations Human Rights Council decides to appoint a panel to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. (See: March 30 secret visit of Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to Washington, and Washington's consequent subterfuge in Bern on Wednesday, April 25).

Jerusalem – Franciscan monks discover a huge, unsightly pylon in front of the Church of All Nations in East Jerusalem overlooking the Garden of Gethsemane. The two electric lines leading from the pylon are labeled "Ir David," and "Ma'aleh Zeitim," the two large Jewish settlements in the area. The pylon was erected as part of a separate electricity infrastructure meant to serve East Jerusalem Jewish settlers, who demanded to be connected to the Israel Electric Corporation instead of the Palestinian East Jerusalem Electricity Company. (Later, on Wednesday May 2, the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land submits an administrative appeal against the Jerusalem municipality and the Israel Electric Corp, claiming that the Jerusalem municipality approved the action illegally).

Monday 26: In Frankfurt, Germany – Jewish PETER FELDMANN of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), is elected city mayor with 57% of the vote; the first Jew to occupy such a position in Germany since WW2. About 10% of the city's population is Jewish.

the Eastern Mediterranean – American, Israeli and Greek naval forces begin joint military exercises. Scenarios being used involve defence of offshore gas platforms (which Israel has developed south of Cyprus in a disputed region) from enemy attack, anti-submarine exercises, and air battles. The Greek media speculate that the exercise is a message to Turkey. Several weeks previously, Israeli's new Air Force chief (Amir Eshel) visited Greece and met with its defence minister, chief of staff and air force commander.

Thursday 29: In Washington, USA – Israel urgently requests, through its Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, that the United States not cooperate with the UN-sponsored international committee to probe its Jewish West Bank settlements in Palestine and that it also cease cooperation with the Human Rights Council on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Friday 30: In Washington, US – Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny AYALON makes a secret visit to meet with his U.S. counterpart Bill BURNS to ask for help in thwarting the establishment of the UN Human Rights panel and suggests that the U.S. publicly threaten to quit the UN Human Rights Council if the panel is established to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. (See: Wednesday, April 25).

Monday 2: In Jerusalem, Israel – Israel's Prime Minister, BINYAMIN NETANYAHU, asks his Defense Minister, EHUD BARAK, to delay the expulsion of Jewish Israeli settlers from the hijacked house in Hebron (West Bank, Palestine) until their legal options are exhausted. The Jewish settlers claim to have purchased the property through a company Al-Aydun al-Akarat (99% owned by Arabic speaking Jew Assaf Nehmad, formerly of Israel's Shin Bet internal security service) which had used Mohammed Abu-Shahala as a front-man as the Palestinians are often unwilling to sell their property to Jews as it could be seen as collaboration with annexation.

4: In Germany – Nobel poet laureate Günter Grass publishes a poem on the conflict between Israel and Iran: 'Nuclear Israel is a threat to world peace'.

19: In Los Angeles, US – The Simon Wiesenthal Center announces three new names added to its list of most wanted Nazi war criminals –

Sunday 22: In Egypt – Termination of the contract to supply gas to Israel is announced by Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS). Mohamed Shoeib, chairman of EGAS, states that EGAS is using its right to terminate the contract due to East Mediterranean Gas Company's (which operates the pipeline) breach of the gas supply agreement, and that the decision was made after a thorough legal review by local and international legal experts. In response, Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said that the unilateral Egyptian announcement was of "great concern" politically and economically, and "is a dangerous precedent that overshadows the peace agreements and the peaceful atmosphere between Israel and Egypt". (see Tuesday 24 April).

Monday 23: In Turkey – The Turkish government announces its veto of Israel's participation in a 'Mediterranean Dialogue' group of the NATO Conference set for May 20 in Chicago, USA, consequent to Israel's refusal to apologise for its killing of Turkish citizens in international waters on the Gaza relief convoy in 2010. The Turkish decision is binding upon NATO members.

Tuesday 24: In Jerusalem – Israel announces its recognition of three illegal Jewish 'outposts' in Palestine as new Jewish settlements: Bruchin and Rechelim, in the north, and Sansana, near Hebron in the south; in disregard of Palestinian objections.
In Cairo, Egypt – Egypt announces that it is willing to continue selling natural gas to Israel on condition the price is raised. (see Sunday 22 April).

Wednesday 25: Catherine ASHTON, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security condemns Israel's legalization of Jewish outposts on Palestinian territory and calls on Israel to reverse its decision:

In New York – Palestinian UN observer Riyad MANSOUR writes to the UN Security Council that the intensified construction of Israeli settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territory "is glaring proof" of Israel's "unlawful, expansionist aims".

Bern, Switzerland – U.S. Middle East envoy David HALE meets with UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi PILLAY and askes her not to advance the matter in the near future of their panel to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. (See: Friday, March 30).

Friday 4: In Ayalon, Israel – HAGAI AMIR (44), convicted of conspiring with his brother Yigal Amir to assassinate Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is freed from the Ayalon Prison this morning, after a 16-and-half-year solitary confinement. Upon his release, Hagai AMIR shows himself to be defiant, making a 'victory' sign and saying that he is "proud" of his actions. Family members (Herzliya's Neveh Amal) take him to an illegal West Bank Jewish settlement for the weekend where his parents are expected to join him for a family celebration. (See: Novermber 4, 1995).

South Africa – The book 'Eye On The Diamonds' by Terry Crawford-Browne is published (by Penguin) in which he states –

Israel – Ten of the between 1,500 to 2,500 hunger-striking Palestinians, held indefinitely without trial in Israeli jails/prisons, are hospitalised as their condition worsens. HAMAS, the democratically elected ruling party of the tiny neighboring territory of Gaza, has warned Israel that if any of the prisoners die while on hunger-strike, they will retaliate.

Tuesday 8: In Jerusalem – The Prime Minister of Israel forms a coalition government with the Kadima party (28 seats, led by Shaul Mofaz) to give the current rightist Likud government a clear majority of 94 of the 120-seats in Israel's parliament (knesset).

11: In Jinba cave village in the southern Hebron hills, Palestine – Israel demolishes a Palestinian elementary school, and confiscates the vehicle used to transport teachers to it, although no other school is available. In addition, it orders an access road, tents, mud huts, sheepfolds and solar energy facilities completely razed, reinstating demolition orders frozen by agreement with the State prosecution in 2007.
(Israel had designated the area a 'live-fire exercise zone' for its Defense Forces in 1999, but the evicted residents petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice, which issued an interim injunction allowing them to return until it issues a final ruling. Ever since, the case has been stuck in court, with the State requesting and receiving continual postponements of the deadline for filing its response. Last month, the State had promised to file its response within 30 days. Three illegal Jewish settlement outposts have however recently expanded into this 'live-fire zone': Avigail, Mitzpeh Yair and Havat Ma'on with no restrictions on their movement in the area, and none of their vehicles have been confiscated.)

Tuesday Evening: B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue, Manhattan – J Street founder and President JEREMY BEN-AMI, in a debate with Weekly Standard editor BILL KRISTOL, a director of Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), moderated by Jane Eisner, states that –

Thursday 17: In Washington, US – Israel's Defense Minister BARAK meets with U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta in the Pentagon who promises a further $70 million in military aid. Israel has already received $205 million from the U.S. to support the short-range missile defense system known as Iron Dome. Iron Dome is manufactured by Israel's state-owned Raphael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.

Saturday 19, c.4:30PM: In Asira al-Qibliya, near Nablus, West Bank, Palestine – Jewish settlers, apparently from the nearby illegal Jewish settlement of Izhar, attack the village with stones. Palestinians youths retaliate by throwing stones back at the settlers. The Jewish settlers later claim in their own defense that they believed that the Palestinians had started a grass fire.

Thursday 24: In Ankara, Turkey – Turkey issues arrest warrants for four former senior Israel Defense Forces officers, and plans to indict/charge them over the deaths of nine Turkish nationals during Israel's botched raid in international waters on a Turkish-sponsored aid flotilla to Gaza in 2010.
            These officers are –

The four are accused of giving the orders for the raid on the Mavi Marmara, in which nine Turkish volunteers were killed.
sorces report that Washington is applying heavy pressure on Ankara to get the Istanbul prosecutor to reject the indictment.

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