Where Benjamin Netanyahu appears
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…rab neighbors. The Israeli paper Haaretz later reported that Trump asked Dershowitz to contact Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and convey the president’s belief that peace could be achieved now. In his interview with the Globe,...
… wishes of President Obama. I felt this even more strongly when, a few weeks later, I was contacted by one of Bibi’s close political allies. He sounded me out on the possibility of launching our strike against Iran after the joint exercise:...
… parliamentary opposition. Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ruined her reputation when she refused to join Netanyahu in his last government. While it is quite true that Livni was an ineffective opposition leader, it is the very fact of h...
…lose. The potential merger between Hamas and the more moderate Fatah is cause for despair, but it should spur Netanyahu to try to split the moderates from the radicals by offering a magnanimous vision for peace. He should realize that it wi...
Bibi spent a few minutes with us and then invited me to his private office for a confidential meeting. He explained that this was one of the most secure locations in the world and that anything I told him would never leave the room. He then...
I finally persuaded Netanyahu that if I accepted the position
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayu and President Moshe Katsav of Israel
but it helps Netanyahu stir support at home and
…on Feb 4, 2013 -- Now that he has finished his consultations with the country's political parties and charged Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new coalition, Israel’s respected President, Shimon Peres, is once again very much in the news....
the Netanyahu government refused. If domestic politics in
adopted a sort of 1950s Jewish uncle (tough-guy variety) delivery, with assorted Yiddishisms—Hillary Clinton, he declared, had been “shlonged” in the 2008 primary— helping to give an inarticulate man an unexpected expressiveness. Now his da...
…t minimize the difficulty of getting Palestinians to accept the watered-down principle on refugee rights. The Netanyahu government, and perhaps others in Israel as well, would react negatively at the outset and would try to mobilize opposit...
s strategic interests in the Middle East. And then there was Dennis. In Middle East circles, if you mention the name Dennis it is immediately clear that you are referring to Dennis Ross. No one has logged more hours working on Arab–Israeli...
…e Likud and the political right would obviously denounce the idea of giving up the Golan Heights, even though Bibi had been ready to do just that when he was Prime Minister. But even on the left, there was little enthusiasm for returning th...
… festivities. Before we get to the matter of coalition politics, which is very much on our minds right now as Netanyahu struggles to put together a government, let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defens...
Bibi had seized on Oslo I to accuse Rabin
…ccepts those conditions or the Palestinian Authority rejects Hamas — the President has made it harder for the Netanyahu government to resist the demands of Israeli extremists who oppose all negotiations. Netanyahu originally planned to come...
and Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister of Israel
given the tension between the Americans and Bibi. That wasn’t just
even though Bibi had been ready to do just that when
