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Fast Forward Netanyahu Threatens To Skip German Talks If FM Meets ‘Breaking The Silence’
(REUTERS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Monday to cancel a meeting with Germany’s foreign minister if he sits down with a left-wing rights group. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel was due to meet with “civil society” groups in Israel on Tuesday, a Berlin spokeswoman said. Israeli media said Gabriel would meet with…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Middle East Policy Is ‘Welcome Change,’ Netanyahu Tells Mattis
(JTA) — President Trump’s recent actions in the Middle East are “a welcome change,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis during a meeting Friday in Jerusalem. The “forthright words on the part of President Trump and very forthright deeds against the use of chemical weapons by Iran’s proxy, Syria,”…
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Breaking News Parents Of Soldiers Killed In 2014 Gaza War Rip Netanyahu At Hearing
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The parents of soldiers killed in Israel’s 2014 Gaza War verbally attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government during a Knesset hearing, with one throwing a cup of water at a lawmaker. At the Knesset State Control Committee hearing Wednesday on the state comptroller’s report on the war, the mother…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Netanyahu Makes Fun Of His Changing Hair Color
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made fun of his changing hair color in a Passover greeting from the Galilee this week. Appearing in front of a valley in northern Israel with his wife, Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister commented on his verdant surroundings. “Everything is green, a bit brown,” he said, “and I’m not talking…
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Opinion How Bibi’s Arrest Or Election Defeat Could Revive The Peace Process
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a police investigation regarding very expensive gifts that he allegedly received during his tenure, recently raised the option of calling early elections for the Knesset. He used an odd excuse for the timing, something about the reform of electronic media, but political observers believe that his real motive…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Sings Trump’s Praises At AIPAC — Opposition Leader Sounds Hope For Peace
Israeli prime minister, in the midst of a coalition crisis at home, chose to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference by satellite from Jerusalem, delivering a brief address stressing the strength of relations with the U.S. Netanyahu thanked President Trump for his support for Israel and praised United Nations ambassador Nikki…
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Fast Forward Israeli News Publisher Caught Promising Bibi Better Coverage
Arnon Mozes, publisher of the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, was taped promising to bash Benjamin Netanuyahu’s political rivals in the paper in exchange for a business advantage, in the latest twist of a police anti-corruption probe into the Israeli prime minister. According to Haaretz, Mozes pledged to attack Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and his Jewish…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Said To Reject U.S. Proposal On West Bank Settlements
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly blew off a demand by President Donald Trump to freeze settlement building in isolated areas of the West Bank as a condition for continuing construction in larger blocs and east Jerusalem. “The talks have not been completed, but there is progress and we will hear about it when we…
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