And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. (Zechariah 12:3)

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Merkel rebukes Israeli PM Netanyahu for failing to advance peace
Israeli paper reports that PM was told in fractious phone call: 'You haven't made a single step'

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk
Friday 25 February 2011

Binyamin Netanyahu was rebuked after expressing disappointment that Germany voted for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has sternly rebuked the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in an unusually fractious telephone call, according to media reports.

Netanyahu had done nothing to advance the peace process, Merkel said in a conversation this week, reported in the Israeli daily Haaretz.

The Israeli prime minister telephoned Merkel on Monday to say he was disappointed that Germany had voted for a UN security council resolution condemning settlements that was vetoed by the US.

According to a German official quoted by Haaretz, Merkel was furious. "How dare you?" she said. "You are the one who has disappointed us. You haven't made a single step to advance peace."

Entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/25/merkel-rebukes-netanyahu-peace-israel

THEN:

Angela Merkel suffers further election blow over nuclear policy
The Telegraph
April 2, 2011

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was heading for a humiliating defeat in a vital election on Sunday night in a state that had been in her party's hands since 1953 after a wave of anger over her government's nuclear policy.

Entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8409736/Angela-Merkel-suffers-further-election-blow-over-nuclear-policy.html

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Germany's Merkel on crutches after knee surgery

Reuters
BERLIN Fri Apr 1, 2011

German Chancellor Angela Merkel underwent a knee operation late on Thursday and will probably need to use crutches for a while, a government spokesman said on Friday.

Entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/01/us-merkel-crutches-idUSTRE7306V920110401