How has Israel responded? With forthright denunciations? With ringing appeals to humanity? ... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintains close diplomatic relations with Lithuania and hails Orban as “a true friend of Israel” because he “understand[s] that the threat..…
The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who has regarded Africans as a greater threat than terrorists and touts Israel’s wall on the Egyptian border as keeping them out — gave thousands of African “infiltrators” a choice of leaving the country or facing..…
Alienation from the political class Israel has never been greater and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cronies hope that spreading fear of Iranian bomb will help them ride out political storm that has seen his poll rating plummet to low. ..…
Israel has, for example, rather been silent of the faith of Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said recently that Israel considers the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a terrorist group, taking the same position as Turkey, the United States..…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely fails to use these attacks as opportunities to urge Jews emigrate to the safety of Israel. ..…
This comes as Trump’s top Israel adviser Jason Greenblatt told Israel’s Army Radio on Thursday that the US president-elect was not going to condemn Israel’s land expropriation policies, and did not view the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank as an obstacle to peace between..…
Yaalon had fought with all my might against phenomena of extremism, violence and Israeli society that threaten its fortitude, and had lost faith Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to The New York Times.. And yet most Israeli Jews do not believe that intolerance is..…
Among Masortim and Hilonim, the most common party affiliation was Likud, the largely secular, center-right party that currently leads the ruling coalition government in Israel (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party). ..…
Many Arabs are skeptical of America's motives for waging war on Iraq, believing the true reason is to capture oil fields and to help protect Israel, its main ally in the `A warning card. The issue of Syria dominated Israel yesterday, with top officials Prime Minister..…
However, in his new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, former President Jimmy Carter remembers telling Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir that 'Israel was punished whenever its leaders turned away from devout worship of God.' ..…
When officials refer to Camp David, they are using shorthand for the negotiations that began in 1978 between the leaders of Egypt and Israel at the U.S. presidential retreat near Washington. With coaxing from President Jimmy Carter, Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel..…
This time the operations were much more effective, under the guidance of the ruthless Lehi leader Yitzhak Yzernitsky (who would become Israel’s seventh prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir). ... Begin became prime minister in 1977 and Shamir succeeded him in 1983. ..…
Meanwhile, Obama's former Secretary of State and likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recycled talking points that could have come from the speechwriters for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: . Israel has a right to defend itself. The steps Hamas has..…
The new government of Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which took office in March 2009, steadfastly opposed any land-for-peace deal with Syria. ..…
Israel's former--and future?--prime minister talks about the threats to peace. . ..…
This is not solely because of the long-established reasons often cited for Israeli doubts: former PLO chairman Yasser Arafat’s failure to accept what most Israelis viewed as generous offers from Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 2000–2001; the suicide bombings during the second intifada;..…
As a member of the Haganah and a member of the Knesset, as a Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs, as a Prime Minister and as President — Shimon helped build the nation that thrives today: the Jewish state of Israel. ... Israel’s own leaders understand the necessity..…
By against any threat and that, I think that above and beyond that are two principles, longstanding principles of American policy that you reiterated in your speech — that Israel must have the ability always to defend itself Israel has the right, the sovereign right to make its own decisions. ..…
You can also see it in former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s apparent willingness to relinquish much of the West Bank in 2000 and early 2001. . ... Last summer, Israel’s vice prime minister, Moshe Ya’alon, called the anti-occupation group Peace Now a..…
Israel's Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu speaking at United Nations headquarters New York City on Thursday, September 27, 2018.. ... Iranian government has responded with ridicule and demands for Israel to come clean about its own undeclared, nuclear after Israeli..…
In Israel there are thousands who are used to assaulting everybody … Why is the man who killed [former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin a hero while our people are criminals?' ..…
CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times On Wednesday, before a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. ..…
A public outcry and a media storm have raged in recent months over a joint declaration issued by the prime ministers of Poland and Israel and read by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last June. ..…
Earlier on Thursday Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for a resumption of Israel-Palestinian peace talks when he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the U.N. ..…
DEBKAfile's sources add Russian- Israeli crisis over Il-20 has passed into the hands of four security advisers John Bolton for Trump and Meir Ben Shabat for Israel, Their conclusions will be put before President Putin and Prime Minister Netanyahu for decision when they meet again...…