Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West Bank. The announcement came several hours after a three-month pilot project which was approved by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing religious “government of war” is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, PLO officials said Thursday, vowing to fight it on the international stage. The PLO blasted Israel’s “extremist” cabinet, after Netanyahu announced a coalition government that gave him a slim parliamentary[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held on to his job, announcing that he had hammered together a new coalition government just ahead of a midnight legal deadline. But with a knife-edge majority of just one seat in the 120-member parliament expectations were that he would have to expand the ruling[…]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Israel’s Arab citizens on Monday for remarks he made during last week’s parliament election that offended members of the community. The move appeared to be an attempt to heal rifts and mute criticism at home and in the United States. Netanyahu drew accusations of racism[…]
In a fresh rebuke to Benjamin Netanyahu, United States President Barack Obama said the Israeli leader’s pre-election disavowal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes it “hard to find a path” toward serious negotiations to resolve the issue. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Obama also scolded[…]
OPINION by Neve Gordon – Benjamin Netanyahu is truly a magician. Just this past Friday, most polls indicated that his Likud party would likely receive around 21 seats in the Israeli Knesset, four seats less than Yitzhak (Bougie) Herzog’s Zionist Camp (Labor Party’s new name). Revelations of corruption at the[…]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have softened his tone from hard-line statements made during his re-election campaign about the establishment of a Palestinian state. In a TV interview on Thursday – just two day after he won re-election – Netanyahu said that he remains committed to Palestinian statehood,[…]
Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against the establishment of a Palestinian state in the face of a diplomatic backlash. In the closing days of his campaign, Netanyahu said there could be no Palestinian state while regional violence and chaos persist[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Racism wins. These two words encapsulate the results of Israel’s latest election. Though early exit polls indicated a tie between the two contesting blocs, official election returns give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud a more decisive margin of victory. “Against all odds: a great victory for[…]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday began laying the groundwork for forming his next government, even as the country’s new opposition leaders-to-be slammed him for running a campaign based on fear-mongering. Aides said Netanyahu plans to form a government of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties within a month, with hopes of adding[…]
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