Jeffrey Heller
By Jeffrey Heller
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Fast Forward Wide Skepticism Over Benjamin Netanyahu’s Claim To Back Arab Peace Plan
Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a 14-year-old Arab peace plan in trying to project a softer image internationally for a new governing coalition in Israel widely seen as more hardline towards Palestinian statehood. In what some political commentators and opposition politicians called spin but a spokesman for Netanyahu dubbed “an important development,” the right-wing prime…
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Fast Forward Far Right-Winger Avigdor Lieberman Joins Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his choice for defense minister, ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman, signed a coalition agreement on Wednesday and issued assurances that the most right wing government in Israel’s history would act responsibly. Once Lieberman is sworn in, Netanyahu will have a government of 66 legislators, widening his current one-seat majority in the 120-member…
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Fast Forward ‘Magician’ Benjamin Netanyahu Springs Far Right Wing Coalition Shocker
“He’s a magician, he’s a magician,” the partisan crowd chanted as a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu strode into his party headquarters a little over a year ago to declare a come-from-behind victory in Israel’s election. Now, with the expected entry into his right-wing government of ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman as defense minister, it looks like Netanyahu, in…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Launches Talks With Avigdor Liberman — Raises Pressure on Center Left
Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman in an effort to recruit him into Israel’s government, and political sources said the prime minister agreed to his demand to be appointed defense minister. Netanyahu, who won a fourth term last year, governs by a majority of one in the 120-member Knesset, making his…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Israel Planned Rescue of Cairo Embassy Guards in 2011 Standoff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he threatened to send Israeli commandos into Cairo in 2011 to rescue a number of Israeli security staff besieged by demonstrators who had stormed the mission. Netanyahu’s remarks, at a ceremony in Israel’s Foreign Ministry to mark the country’s annual memorial day, added a new twist to…
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Fast Forward Israeli General Warns of Nazi-Like Jewish Extremists in Holocaust Remembrance Speech
Israel’s deputy military chief suggested in a Holocaust memorial speech that there were signs of Nazi-like behavior in Israeli society, drawing condemnation from two cabinet ministers on Thursday before he backtracked on the remarks. Major-General Yair Golan’s speech, at a ceremony on Wednesday, would have touched a nerve at any time in a nation that…
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Fast Forward Trump Says He Loves Israel, but Does Israel Love Him?
JERUSALEM – “I love the people in this room. I love Israel. I love Israel,” Donald Trump told a convention of pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington this week. But the feeling still isn’t quite mutual. At least not yet. In Israel, where distrust of Democratic President Barack Obama runs deep and conservative Benjamin Netanyahu is in…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden’s Wife and Grandchildren Narrowly Escape Tel Aviv Terror
Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his wife Jill and their grandchildren were dining on a Tel Aviv beach when a Palestinian killed an American tourist with a knife and wounded 11 other people on the seafront “not very far” away. Since October, Palestinian stabbings, shootings and car rammings have killed 28 Israelis and…
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