Dan Williams
By Dan Williams
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Beats Clock To Swear In Coalition — and Divvy Up Spoils
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new rightist coalition government, hobbled by a razor-thin parliamentary majority, was sworn in late on Thursday amid wrangling within his Likud party over cabinet posts. The evening ceremony in the Knesset was postponed by two hours so Netanyahu could divvy up for Likud the remaining ministries, after others were assigned…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu’s 1-Seat Coalition Could Be Doomed From Start
Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to find much comfort at home or abroad in his fourth term as prime minister after taking six weeks to form a coalition that will hold a parliamentary majority of just a single seat. Long at odds with Western allies over his views on the Palestinians and Iran, Netanyahu could be…
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Breaking News Real Threat to Israel Is Iran’s Allies — Not Nukes
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thunders against a looming Iranian nuclear deal, his defense chiefs see a more pressing menace from Tehran’s guerrilla allies. Chief among these is Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that fought Israeli forces to a stand-still in their 2006 war and has since expanded its arsenal and honed its skills helping…
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Breaking News Gaza Report Slams ‘Massive and Unprecedented’ Attacks on Palestinian Civilians
(Reuters) — Israel inflicted “massive and unprecedented harm” to Palestinian civilians in the 2014 Gaza war with indiscriminate fire and lax rules of engagement, a report said on Monday, citing testimony given anonymously by dozens of troops. The 237-page report by the Israeli advocacy group Breaking the Silence described how Israel Defense Forces (IDF) left…
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Breaking News Israel Military Frets Over Soldiers’ Use of Social Media
(Reuters) — Israel’s armed forces see a growing threat in instant messaging applications — both to battlefield secrecy and to the privacy of women soldiers. According to official military journal Bamahane, the number of troop indictments for sex crimes has almost doubled since 2012, with “infringement of privacy” counts, some involving the collection and sharing…
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Breaking News Red-Faced Israel Pollsters Scramble To Explain Bibi Defeat That Wasn’t
(Reuters) — Embarrassed at failing to predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory, Israeli pollsters said on Wednesday they were blindsided by reticent rightist voters and may have unwittingly prodded waverers to back the incumbent. Netanyahu’s Likud won 30 of parliament’s 120 seats in Tuesday’s ballot, against 24 for the center-left Zionist Union – upsetting…
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Breaking News ‘King Bibi’ Reign in Doubt as Israel Votes
(Reuters) — Millions of Israelis turned out to vote on Tuesday in a tightly-fought election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to defeat a strong campaign by the center-left opposition to deny him a fourth term in office. In many respects the election has turned into a referendum on “Bibi” Netanyahu, 65,…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Insists He Gave ‘Practical Alternative’ on Iran
(Reuters) — Pushing back against President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he had presented a practical alternative in Washington to a “deeply flawed” nuclear accord being negotiated with Iran. Returning to Israel after addressing the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, Netanyahu voiced satisfaction with the speech that Obama said had offered…
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