OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Citing Iran as an existential threat is to don a mask which conceals what many Israelis perceive to be the real danger arising from internal Israeli policies that Netanyahu refuses to acknowledge. Now that all the hype is over following his controversial grandstanding at a joint[…]
Tehran has called the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the US Congress on Iran’s nuclear talks deceitful and a desperate attempt to impose an irrational agenda. In his speech to Congress, Netanyahu said that the world must stand together to stop Iran from gaining access to a[…]
OPINION by Marwan Bishara- The political rift between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become evermore personal with the latter’s visit to Washington this week. But behind the personal and the political spat lies a strategic difference with dangerous implications for the Middle East, indeed[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his planned address Tuesday to the US Congress on Iran’s nuclear programme is not intended as a sign of disrespect to US President Barack Obama. The speech, which has caused a public rift between the two leaders, is instead intended to “speak up about[…]
Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday tried to calm tensions with Israel before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address, yet insisted the Obama administration’s diplomatic record with Iran entitles the U.S. to “the benefit of the doubt” as negotiators work toward a long-term nuclear deal. On a mission to[…]
A former chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency is slamming the prime minister’s handling of the Iranian nuclear threat. Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious speech to Congress, Meir Dagan says “the person who has caused the greatest strategic damage to Israel on the Iranian issue is the prime minister.” The[…]
United States officials have questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judgement and said his outspoken condemnation of efforts to secure an Iranian nuclear deal had injected destructive partisanship into US-Israeli relations. In an escalation of hostile exchanges between the allies six days before Netanyahu gives a speech to Congress on[…]
Less than a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2012 warning to the UN General Assembly that Iran was 70 percent of the way to completing its “plans to build a nuclear weapon”, Israel’s intelligence service believed that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons”. A secret[…]
OPINION by Robert Fantina- One may be excused for thinking that the impossible has occurred: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may finally have pushed the United States too far. One might have thought that constant, ongoing violations of international law might have done it. But no, that didn’t interest the[…]
With the Israeli prime minister under fire internationally for his hard-line policies, a key partner of Benjamin Netanyahu is standing firmly behind him ahead of the March parliamentary elections – heralding what could be an even tougher stance toward the Palestinians if the two sit together in the next government.[…]
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