Where Benjamin Netanyahu appears
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lated, economically strapped and politically febrile strips of land on the face of the earth. Still, I did see it as an important first step toward the kind of wider disengagement that would prioritize Israel’s own security interests, and p...
/ BARAK / 112 then in response to Hamas rocket fire into Israel. The moral: Arik was wrong to withdraw. But the Islamists’ ascendancy was happening anyway. After all, it was Hamas attacks that provided the spearhead of the intifada of terro...
…(National) BRINKHOF F-MOEGENBURG; AP JT Rogers, far right, and the NT production of Osfo, above. Clinton with Netanyahu and Arafat in 1993, below Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial...
…decades ago, and that angling has potential ramifications for the 2012 elections. The visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the past week captured just how aggressively Republicans are stoking doubts about Mr. Obama. Repub...
…an existential challenge to my dual identity as an American and a Jew. In 2010, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged me to accept the position of Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. He told me that in order to serve in that c...
…, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen. Sincerely, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031332
…as any in the world, and a high-tech economic sector justifiably compared to Silicon Valley. Every few weeks, Bibi, Lieberman and I would meet for a wide-ranging discussion on the patio of the Prime Minister’s residence. Shortly after we’d...
…n agreement, through the Egyptians, which established a period of calm on our border for as long as we could. Bibi’s “victimhood” narrative notwithstanding, one aspect of the military balance in the south was now dramatically different. Wit...
…ers burned pictures of him, or passed out photos of him dressed in an Arab keffityeh, or even a Nazi uniform. Bibi had publicly declared that opposition to the agreement must remain within the bounds of the law. Yet as he addressed the bayi...
Article 5. The Daily Beast The Palestinian Right to Dream Peter Beinart May 25, 2011 -- I watched Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress with a guy named Fadi Quran. He recently graduated from Stanford, where he double-majored in physics a...
…asures designed to protect its security. That’s why the process is called land for peace. The problem is that Netanyahu has never believed in land for peace. His strategy has been to put up obstacles, create confusion and wait it out. But o...
Netanyahu originally planned to come to Washington with a generous peace proposal to entice the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. But Obama painted him into a corner and made him change his script by notifying him, as he was about...
…witz said. Dershowitz said Trump made it clear he was aware that the former professor is “very friendly” with Netanyahu. And the Israeli media is reporting that Dershowitz was tapped to be a back channel sorts between Netanyahu and Trump. T...
…ot easy. At one point, we announced a call-up of reserves. We hinted at a possible ground incursion. But both Bibi and I knew we were going to avoid that if at all possible, and we did. Though there were inevitable civilian casualties, most...
…error. The kind of intolerance we were seeing from the right wing was not going to go away. He was furious at Bibi, who in his view was hypocritically going through the motions of calling for restraint and pretending to be unaware that the...
… "the year of the settlement," with the Ministry of Defense authorizing an additional 6,000 housing units and Netanyahu pushing for the construction of 11,000 homes in the month of December alone. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 018221 The lack of economic...
a deal to be struck? Do Israelis have the political courage to sacrifice on settlements and Jerusalem so the conflict can finally be resolved? Can the Palestinians negotiate in good faith? Luckily, polling organizations in Israel and Palest...
…is, president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, a group of Jewish-American Democratic activists. Mr. Netanyahu on Monday experienced first-hand the tension arising from that complaint among Democrats, and Republicans’ rejection of...
… degree by its sense of the American mood. That mood, beginning in the White House, is of growing impatience. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will address Congress this month. He has responded to tumultuous events in the Mid...
…al-security interest—a tough sell. And ever since Obama bollixed up his relations with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2010, Hillary has worked overtime to soothe Bibi. “She’s indispensable—the only one trusted on all sides [o...
