Results for “Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki”

increase its defense spending. Under Prime Minister Abe, the defense budget has expanded by 7% but has been kept at roughly 1% of GDP, in keeping with historical guidelines. This is small by international standards and more likely than not will rise in the coming years (Chart 24}...

…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 abandoned the idea of a military strike, I raised head-on my objections to the skewed image Bibi was promoting of...

…ge named Wadi Khawaret, which disappeared, with the establishment of the State of Israel, when I was six years old. As Prime Minister half-a-century later, during my stubborn yet ultimately fruitless drive to secure a final peace treaty with Yasir Arafat, there were media sugges...

… to an offer that presented me with 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 capac...

… Hurriyet Why Golda Meir was right Burak Bekdil August 23, 2011 -- It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres’s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister Erdogan has also declared...

… who have succeeded in blocking their deployment to Sanaa. According to well-informed sources, the Vice President, the Prime Minister, and the Speaker of the Yemeni Consultative Council have tried to convince President Saleh to sign the agreement mediated by the Gulf Cooperation...

…e said our task was to continue what Rabin had begun, and that at least for now he would fill Rabin’s shoes not just as Prime Minister but Defense Minister as well. The whole country stood still, shocked, until the state funeral two days after the assassination. It was attended b...

…sn’t over land-for-peace. In an echo of a similar crisis that brought down the government during Rabin’s first spell as Prime Minister in the 1970s, it was over a violation of the Jewish Sabbath. It turned out that Israel’s state electric company had been transporting a huge stea...

…pe Group Head, Human Resources and Communications Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Member of the Board of Management and Chief Executive Officer, T- Systems Minister of Industry of Canada President Found...

…erm as chief-of-staff and, with initial opinion poll numbers suggesting he’d do well, even briefly entered the race for Prime Minister. Now, he endorsed Yitzhik Mordechai instead: a man not only with strong military credentials, but of Sephardi background and religiously observan...

… I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded, the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I would remain in office, at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televised message, I reminded the country that I’d been elec...

…sn’t over land-for-peace. In an echo of a similar crisis that brought down the government during Rabin’s first spell as Prime Minister in the 1970s, it was over a violation of the Jewish Sabbath. It turned out that Israel’s state electric company had been transporting a huge stea...

… I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded, the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I would remain in office, at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televised message, I reminded the country that I’d been elec...

…ings have frayed nerves in the Israeli government, which had already been skeptical of the Egyptian revolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Knesset committee on May. 30, "Global terrorist organizations are meddling [in Sinai] and their presence is increasing...

…he result, for the first time in peacetime, was a national-unity coalition, including both main parties. Peres would be Prime Minister for the first two years, and Shamir the final two. But the stipulation of most relevance to me was that one man would be the Defence Minister thr...