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| October 2, 2013
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NYT says Netanyahu sabotaging Obama’s Iran efforts…not warning him

 

NYT daily dishes out fierce criticism of Netanyahu following his General Assembly address, says the PM ‘seems eager for a fight. It could be disastrous if Netanyahu and his supporters in Congress were so blinded by distrust that they sabotage the best chance to restore relations’

By Yitzhak Benhorin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to “sabotage the best chance” to restore relations between the West and Iran, the New York Times is claiming in an editorial following Netanyahu’s General Assembly address.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday October 1, 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in New York - Photo: AP/Andrew Gombert,Pool

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday October 1, 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in New York – Photo: AP/Andrew Gombert,Pool

 

“Netanyahu has legitimate reasons to be wary of any Iranian overtures.. Continue Reading »

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| October 1, 2013
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Video & Complete Transcript of Israeli PM Netanyahu’s UNGA speech

Watch Video: Focusing on Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s PM strikes defiant tone: ‘If Israel is forced to stand alone, it will.’

PM Netanyahu went on to say Palestinians must recognize the Jewish state to achieve peace.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Thank you, Mr. President.

 

I feel deeply honored and privileged to stand here before you today representing the citizens of the state of Israel. We are an ancient people. We date back nearly 4,000 years to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We have journeyed through time. We’ve overcome the greatest of adversities.

Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly. October 1, 2013.

Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly.

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| September 30, 2013
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Peres: ‘All options open on Iran’ just hrs before Netanyahu-Obama meeting

At his visit to the ICJ in The Hague, Israel’s President Peres reported that economic sanctions may have impact but threat of force could be necessary.

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Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Monday “all options” are being kept open in forcing Iran to give up its nuclear program.

Peres in The Hague

Israel’s President Peres delivers a statement at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Sept. 30, 2013. – Photo: AP

Speaking at The Hague, Peres said the economic sanctions against Iran now have not dissuaded the country from enriching uranium or building long-range missiles, although it may have affected Tehran’s public statements. Continue Reading »

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| September 26, 2013
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Abbas at UN urges Israel to abandon “security obsessions”

State of Palestine President, Mahmoud Abbas, urged Israel to abandon “security obsessions and pretexts,” and to “sow the seeds of good neighborliness.”

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday in New York, saying that the Palestinians refuse to enter into  “a vortex” of new interim agreements with Israel.

Abbas speaks at the UN General Assembly.


Abbas speaks at the UN General Assembly. – Photo: AFP

Speaking for the first time in the name of the State of Palestine, Abbas said raising the status of Palestine was not aimed at deligitimizing Israel, but “to consecrate the legitimacy of a State that must exist, which is Palestine.” Continue Reading »

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| September 23, 2013
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Netanyahu allows Jews to return to Machpelah house

 

Just hours after Hebron shooting of IDF soldier, PM Netanyahu issues order that authorizes Jews to return to Machpelah house, following fierce criticism from Right over upcoming terrorists’ release.

By Attila Somfalvi

Following a string of terrorist attacks and political pressure from the Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a directive to allow Jews to move into Hebron’s Machpelah house. The move has already been sanctioned by the Judea and Samaria Military Court which ruled that the house was lawfully purchased last summer.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Photo: AP

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: AP

Earlier on Sunday, ministers Naftali Bennett and Yisrael Katz expressed fierce criticism of the plan to release a second round of terrorists as part of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. Continue Reading »

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| September 22, 2013
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EU demands Israel to explain seizure of Palestinian aid & abuse to diplomats

EU diplomats accuse IDF soldiers of manhandling them while attempting to deliver aid to Palestinians.

Foreign Ministry official calls EU’s actions a ‘provocation’, illegal & IDF responded to physical attack.

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The EU ambassador in Israel called the Foreign Ministry Deputy Director-General for Europe Rafi Shutz on Saturday, to express concern over an altercation that took place between EU diplomats and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Friday.

Khirbet al-Makhul

Israeli soldiers pull a Palestinian off a truck loaded with items European diplomats wanted to deliver to locals in the West Bank herding community of Khirbet al-Makhul, September 20, 2013.

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| September 14, 2013
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Kerry heading to Jerusalem for update with Netanyahu on Syria deal

US Sec. of St. Kerry currently in Geneva for talks with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov over a plan to remove Syria’s chemical weapons & avert U.S. military action.

John Kerry will meet with PM Netanyahu & Abbas on Sunday.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Israel on Sunday, and he will update Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on developments in securing a deal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva to discuss a plan to disarm Syria’s nuclear arsenal.

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| September 8, 2013
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Israel’s PM unimpressed by Iranian greetings for Jewish New Year

Netanyahu said in a statement that the Iranian regime ‘will be judged only by its actions & not by its greetings’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday dismissed the significance of reports that the new Iranian president and his foreign minister had both issued greetings to mark the Jewish New Year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: GPO

Twitter messages that appeared to have been issued by newly-elected Hassan Rohani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, wishing Jews a good Rosh Hashana – the Jewish New Year, which was celebrated this week – made headlines in Israel.

They were a change in tone from Rohani’s predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who left office last month and regularly use to rile Israel by calling for the destruction of the “Zionist entity”. Continue Reading »

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| September 5, 2013
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Underrated

 

Israel’s ‘hawkish’ right-wing Likud Prime Minister Netanyahu is surprisingly a wise pragmatist with a deft touch amid all the regional chaos.

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

 

Everybody loves to hate Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu – Illustration: The Commentator

When he appeared at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2012 to warn the international community about Iran’s impending nuclear threat with a graphic depiction of a bomb, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt dismissed it as “confusing”. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called him “a local party boss”.

In 2011 former US President Bill Clinton blamed him for the failure of the peace talks with the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| September 2, 2013
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US & Russia position warships for Syrian confrontation

 

U.S. moves USS Nimitz aircraft carrier into Red Sea to help support possible assault.

Russian reconnaissance ship getting into position in the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel sends home its reserves for the meantime as it dials back its missile defenses.

By Shlomo Cesana, Lilach Shoval, Mati Tuchfeld and Reuters

 

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support a limited U.S. strike on Syria, if needed, defense officials said on Sunday.

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Russia, meanwhile, is sending a reconnaissance ship to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Interfax news agency reported on Monday.

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| August 28, 2013
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LIVE TIMELINE: US readies strike on Syria as GB drafting UNSC resolution

 

Video: UN inspectors arrive outside Damascus at site of chemical attack.

Israeli cabinet convenes to discuss probable U.S.- U.K. attack.

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Momentum appeared to build Wednesday for Western military action against Syria, with the U.S. and France saying they are in position for a strike, while the government in Damascus vowed to use all possible measures to repel it.

USS Nimitz.

A U.S. Navy F/A 18 Hornet fighter jet lands on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier. – Photo: Reuters

 

The prospect of a dramatic U.S.-led intervention into Syria’s civil war stemmed from the West’s assertion – still not endorsed by UN inspectors – that President Bashar Assad‘s government was responsible for an alleged chemical attack on civilians outside Damascus on August 21 that the group Doctors Without Borders says killed 355 people. Continue Reading »

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| August 25, 2013
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French Foreign Minister in Ramallah, next Jerusalem

Abbas meets with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Ramallah who urges Israel to stop settlement activities.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that there is “nothing” preventing him from personally meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mahmoud Abbas and Laurent Fabius

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius shake hands after addressing the media following their meeting in the West Bank city, Ramallah, August 24. – Photo: Reuters

The comments come nearly one month after direct peace talks between the two sides resumed after a three-year stalemate.

“There is nothing at all that prevents a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the right time for us to meet or at a time we need to meet,” Abbas said in Ramallah at a press conference with visiting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Continue Reading »

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| August 24, 2013
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Netanyahu to address UN General Assembly Next Month

This September’s speech will be the 3rd year in a row that Netanyahu will address the United Nations.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will address the United Nations General Assembly next month in New York.

PM wants cabinet to vote on release of terrorists - Photo GPO

Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo GPO

According to The Jerusalem Post, the Prime Minister’s Office said the Sept. 30 speech would focus on Iran. This will be the third year in a row that Netanyahu will address the United Nations.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is also expected to address the world body.

In last year’s U.N. speech, Netanyahu presented a cartoonish-looking picture of a bomb with a thick red line that he said delineated the point in Iran’s nuclear development process beyond which it must not be allowed to proceed.

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| August 16, 2013
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Netanyahu exposed anti-Israel incitement at UN sponsored , West financed Arab summer camps

 

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was briefed by PM Benjamin Netanyahu & other top Israeli officials on Friday about UNRWA camps inciting & indoctrinating Arab children.

Either unable or unwilling to end the UNRWA indoctrination of Arab children, Ban expressed his concern over Israeli home constructions.

By Mati Tuchfeld, Israel Hayom Staff and Reuters

 

 

At a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to present proof of anti-Israel incitement in summer camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian children in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip.

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| August 13, 2013
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Kerry warned Israel faces demonization campaign ‘on steroids’ should talks fail

 

 

 

Columnist Jeffery Goldberg criticizes Netanyahu’s ‘self-destructive West Bank settlement policy’.

He also claims Kerry believes Prime Minister is afraid of int’l isolation, telling him that if peace-talks fail, Israel would face a demonization campaign ‘on steroids’.

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In a new article, Bloomberg columnist Jeffery Goldberg claims that despite Israel’s West Bank settlement construction, US Secretary of State John Kerry managed to grab Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s attention by highlighting growing isolation Israel would face should peace talks fail.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Photo: AP

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: AP

In his op-ed, Goldberg slammed Israel’s self-destructive” West Bank construction” and quoted a source close to negotiations as claiming Kerry believes Netanyahu fears delegitimization as much as he fears the Iranian threat and wants nothing but to remain in power. Continue Reading »

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