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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Lashes Out at UN After Anti-Occupation Resolution
Israel will re-assess its ties with the United Nations following the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. The vote was able to pass the 15-member council on Friday because the United States broke with a long-standing approach of diplomatically…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Fires Off Trump-Style 3 a.m. Tweet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to take a cue from late-night tweeter and President-elect Donald Trump when he fired off a tweet at 3:28 AM Israel time on Wednesday morning (8:28 PM in New York). The US should veto the anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council on Thursday. — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) December…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Tweets Call for Veto of UN Settlement Resolution — at 3:28 am
Israel urged the United States on Thursday to veto a U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate halt to settlement building on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter in the dead of night in Israel to make the appeal, in a sign of concern…
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Opinion When It Comes to New Israel Envoy David Friedman, Bibi Should Be Careful What He Wishes For
Oh, the hawkish corner of American Jewry is jubilant with President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of David Friedman to be his ambassador to Israel. The Republican Jewish Coalition is kvelling on Twitter. Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, declared that Friedman — a bankruptcy lawyer with no diplomatic experience — has “the potential…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Appeals to Amona Settlers To Spare Children in Evacuation Fight
— Calling his Cabinet “more committed than any other” to West Bank settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the residents of Amona to leave peacefully ahead of the evacuation of their illegal outpost. Netanyahu made the plea Friday on his Facebook page, where he posted an open letter addressed to the some 40 settler…
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Community A Trump Embassy Move Would Be Nothing To Celebrate
During his campaign, Trump promised that he would honor a longstanding American commitment and finally move the American embassy in Israel from it’s current home in Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem, where the seat of the Israeli government is located. For more than a decade, no foreign embassy has been located there, and the world…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Vows To Tell Trump 5 Ways To Scrap Iran Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he would present to President-elect Donald Trump multiple options to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal. “There are ways, various ways of undoing it,” Netanyahu said in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday. “I have about five things in my mind.” He said he would…
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Opinion Like Houdini, Netanyahu Is a Great Escape Artist — Just Look at His Contortions On Settlements
October 31 marked 90 years since the death of Harry Houdini, the rabbi’s son who became the world’s most famous magician. Houdini dazzled audiences around the globe by conjuring up unforgettable performance art out of the most essential practice in Jewish tradition: escaping danger. It’s appropriate, then, that in the month since Houdini’s yahrzeit we’ve…
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