Benjamin Netanyahu

WATCH Israel’s Prime Minister Addresses the US: REMEMBER! – Iran is not your friend, it seeks your destruction!

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday, saying in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, ‘Iran cannot be allowed to become a nuclear threshold state.’
• PM: Israel supports the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State group.

By Shlomo Cesana, Eli Leon & Israel Hayom Staff

With the Nov. 24 deadline for a nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran fast approaching, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that any deal allowing Iran to maintain enrichment capabilities, essentially making it a threshold nuclear state, would be bad for the world.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Photo: AP

In an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Netanyahu delivered perhaps his sternest note of caution to date to the U.S.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran Nuclear threat

israelandstuffcom | November 3, 2014

REPORT: Benjamin Netanyahu & Jordan’s King Abdullah met secretly about Jerusalem tensions

Unpublicized meeting was leaked by a Kuwaiti newspaper, and still lacks confirmation by both the Jordanian & Israeli governments.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II reportedly held a secret meeting in Amman on Saturday amid tensions in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II

Jordan’s King Abdullah meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the royal palace in Amman, Jordan on July 27, 2010. – Photo: Avi Ohayon

According to a report published Monday in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, an urgent meeting was called for the leaders to discuss the escalation in violence in East Jerusalem and tensions surrounding the Temple Mount.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan king, Temple Mount

israelandstuffcom | October 19, 2014

Israel’s Prime Minister: We will continue building in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital

Israeli leader says construction benefits Jews and Arabs alike, “for Jerusalemites of all religions.”

By i24news

Israel’s construction in Jerusalem will continue, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, stressing that “we are building for Jews and Arabs alike, for Jerusalemites of all religions.”

: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – PMO

Netanyahu spoke at a ceremony in the Israeli capital marking the unveiling of a new road named after the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, famous for his hawkish views.

Championing the legacy of the late premier, whose son Yair serves in Netanyahu’s government as the Minister of Agriculture, the leader said that Shamir “emphasized at every turn our obligation to safeguard Jerusalem’s unity.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, housing, Jerusalem, new construction

israelandstuffcom | October 5, 2014

Netanyahu asks UN chief: How would S. Korea respond to rocket attack from North Korea?

Israeli sources say UN head Ban Ki-moon, & Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a “heated” argument during their meeting on Tuesday
• Netanyahu: Jerusalem will highlight the fact that Hamas is not being adequately investigated by the UN.

By Shlomo Cesana

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a tense meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday, protesting that the U.N. Human Rights Council is biased against Israel and defends Hamas, making the inquiry into Operation Protective Edge unfair to Israel.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet on Tuesday – Photo: AFP

Israeli sources said Ban and Netanyahu had a “heated” argument during the meeting.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel UN

israelandstuffcom | October 2, 2014

Tension Again as Netanyahu Tells Obama Get Your Facts Right on Jerusalem Construction

PM Benjamin Netanyahu rejects White House censure of Israel’s plan to construct 2,500 new residential units within its capital, in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos
• PM Netanyahu: These are not settlements, these are neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Israel’s capital!

Israel Hayom Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected U.S. government criticism of an Israeli construction plan in an east Jerusalem neighborhood.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, Wednesday – Photo: AP

“I think [the Obama administration] should be acquainted with the facts first,” Netanyahu said in a NBC News interview with Andrea Mitchell in New York, after returning there from Washington, where he had met with U.S.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel US, new construction

israelandstuffcom | October 2, 2014

Netanyahu tells Obama: Let’s Bring Arab states into Israel-Palestinian peace process

Obama meets Netanyahu for 1st time in 7 months, telling the PM: The Gaza status quo must change.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Barack Obama during their White House meeting Wednesday that he wants to integrate Arab states in the peace process with the Palestinians. Obama told Netanyahu that the status quo between the two sides, in Gaza and the West Bank, must change in order to advance peace.

White House, Washington, DC, October 1, 2014.

US President Barack Obama (R) speaks with Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) during a bilateral meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, October 1, 2014.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel US

israelandstuffcom | September 26, 2014

Jerusalem circumvents Arabs bid criticizing Israel’s ‘atomic arsenal’ at UN nuclear assembly

3-month long Israeli world-wide diplomatic campaign thwarts Arab League proposal demanding Israel join global anti-nuclear weapons pact.

Member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency rejected a resolution initiated by Arab League nations criticizing Israel’s alleged nuclear abilities.

The nuclear power plant in Dimona – Photo: Archive

The resolution, which is non-binding, condemns Israel, calls on it to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and make its nuclear facilities subject to international supervision. Fifty-eight countries voted against the text and 45 states for. The representatives of many nations chose not to attend the vote.

A senior official in the Foreign Ministry noted that Arab League nations decided this year to make a special effort in order to pass the resolution, which was rejected last year as well.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab League, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel nuclear, UN

israelandstuffcom | September 24, 2014

Exclusive New Year J’Post interview with Israel’s PM Netanyahu

Surprisingly cheerful, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sits down with the Jerusalem Post & extols policy-making based on looking at the region as it truly is, without being overly optimistic.

By HERB KEINON

Power invigorates.

That must be the reason Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appeared extremely chipper Sunday afternoon, during a 30-minute pre-Rosh Hashana interview with The Jerusalem Post.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

Just a month after Operation Protective Edge, in the midst of a percolating political crisis both within his party and in his coalition, as Iran, Islamic State and Hezbollah are either near or at the gates, one would think there would be signs of strain and fatigue on the prime minister’s face, extreme agitation in his demeanor. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem Post, New Year

israelandstuffcom | September 14, 2014

Netanyahu forced to mediate which Israeli security agency controls state cyber defense

Israel’s Prime Minister is expected to make a decision on the cyber-defense issue this week after procrastinating for months.

The Shin Bet security service and National Cyber Bureau have been waging a months-long battle over authority for protecting Israel’s economy and civilian institutions against cyber attacks.

An IDF course for cyber-defense in Ramat Gan. – Photo: Alon Ron

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken on the cyber issue as a personal project — the bureau is part of the Prime Minister’s Office, and he has defined cyber attacks as one of the four main threats to Israel.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, cyber warfare, cyberterrorism, IDF cyber-defense

israelandstuffcom | July 28, 2014

Israel’s Prime Minister seeks demilitarization of Gaza in 4 U.S. interviews

PM Netanyahu told news interviewers on Sunday that Hamas violated its own cease-fires & is responsible for Gaza’s civilian casualties.

By Haaretz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his message to the American talk shows on Sunday, accusing Hamas of “violating its own ceasefires,” and asking how Americans would react if they were the targets of what he called a “terrorist operation.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at a Golani Brigade exercise.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Defense Ministe Moshe Ya’alon watching a Golani Brigade exercise. – Photo: GPO

Interviewed by CNN, CBS, NBC and Fox, Netanyahu spoke repeatedly of achieving “sustainable quiet” on Israel’s border with Gaza. He did not deny that Israel intended to enlarge its incursion into Gaza, saying only that he would take “whatever action is necessary” to defend Israelis.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Gaza rockets

israelandstuffcom | July 20, 2014

Israel’s PM Netanyahu: Gaza’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ moving forward fairly quickly

Prime Minister Netanyahu tells CNN in an interview, that Israel regrets all civilian casualties, accuses Hamas of exploiting the civilians as human shields.

By Reuters

Israel’s military mission in Gaza to destroy tunnels used by Hamas for terrorist attacks is being done fairly quickly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday.

PM Netanyahu’s message to the people of Gaza – PMO

The prime minister repeated his accusation that Hamas is using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and said that there are sometimes civilian casualties that Israel regrets.

The Saja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City came under heavy IDF artillery bombardment overnight Saturday, and Israel and Hamas agreed Sunday to what was originally a two hours-long humanitarian ceasefire in the area, that has since been extended to four hours. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, CNN, Operation Protective Edge

israelandstuffcom | July 18, 2014

Israel’s PM Netanyahu’s complete statement on the IDF ground operation in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says operation launched to destroy Hamas’ underground terror tunnels leading into Israeli territory.

By Haaretz

The Prime Minister’s Office released a statement on the ground incursion that was launched Thursday night in the Gaza Strip:

Netanyahu addressing the Knesset April 24, 2013.

Netanyahu addressing the Knesset – Photo: Emil Salman

“The prime minister and the defense minister have ordered the IDF to begin a ground operation in order to damage the underground terror tunnels constructed in Gaza leading into Israeli territory.

“Such a tunnel was used earlier this morning by Hamas terrorists to enter Israeli territory, with intent to case massive harm to Israeli civilians. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Operation Protective Edge

israelandstuffcom | June 29, 2014

Israel Backs Kurds for Independence

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: The Kurds “proved its political commitment… deserves political independence”

By Dan Williams; editing by Ralph Boulton

(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support for Kurdish statehood on Sunday, taking a position that appeared to clash with the U.S. preference to keep sectarian war-torn Iraq united.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference January 21, 2014 – Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP

Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against shared Arab adversaries.

The Kurds have seized on recent sectarian chaos in Iraq to expand their autonomous northern territory to include Kirkuk, which sits on vast oil deposits that could make the independent state many dream of economically viable. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Kurdistan, Kurds

israelandstuffcom | June 14, 2014