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Fast Forward Isaac Herzog Held Unity Talks After Netanyahu’s Secret Summit With Arab Leaders
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said he entered into negotiations to join a unity government a year ago on the basis of a secret regional peace initiative bring negotiated at the time. Herzog, head of the Zionist Union, told American Jewish leaders on Monday that he demanded a total freeze on settlement…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Scuttled Secret 2016 Peace Push With Arab Leaders
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined a peace proposal presented by then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a secret summit in 2016 with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Aqaba, Jordan, according to a Haaretz investigation. The proposal included the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and renewed…
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Opinion How Trump Pleased Bibi Netanyahu And David Duke Alike
What was noteworthy about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent summit with President Trump was that the leaders’ press conference had little to do with Israel. An Israeli reporter asked Trump the following question: “Mr. President, since your election campaign and even after your victory, we’ve seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Claims Alliance With America Has Become ‘Even Stronger’ With Trump
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The alliance between Israel and the United States has become “even stronger,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu made the remarks on Sunday during the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, his first meeting with government ministers since returning on Friday from meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, his administration, and members of…
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Fast Forward Trump & Netanyahu: ‘No Daylight’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there would be “no daylight” between the United States and Israel and planned to set up a number of working groups in areas of bilateral security and economic interests. Like their joint news conference prior to the leaders meeting on Wednesday, the joint…
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Community The Latest Trend In Zionism? Anti-Semitism.
“The truth,” writes Bernard Henri-Levy in his recent book, The Genius of Judaism, “is that one can now be anti-Semitic only by being anti-Zionist; anti-Zionism is the required path for any anti-Semitism that wishes to expand its recruiting pool beyond those still nostalgic for the discredited brotherhoods.” Is that true, or has the ancient virus…
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Fast Forward Awkward Greetings As The Trumps and Netanyahus Meet
Yesterday’s White House greeting between the Trumps and the Netanyahus was rife with awkward moments between the two first couples. It started out with a stilted exchange between President Trump and First Lady Netanyahu and ended with Melania Trump’s hand on Sara’s Netanyahu’s behind. Trump cozied up to Netanyahu at Wednesday’s meeting between the world…
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News Right-Wing Writers Celebrate Trump Retreat On Two-State Solution
An off-the-cuff comment from President Trump on Israel has set off a flurry of cautious excitement from conservative commentators. During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Trump said he was “looking” at both one-state and two-state solutions. “I like the one that both parties like,” he added. “I can live…
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