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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Faces Probe for Bribery Claim in German Submarine Scandal
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s attorney general reportedly will announce a criminal investigation into suspicion of bribery against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The country’s Justice Ministry on Thursday said it would issue an update about the case and announce the closure of others that are not supported by evidence. Netanyahu reportedly will be summoned for questioning,…
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Israel News Israel Right Winger Says John Kerry Is 100% Right — the Two-State Solution Is Dead
Israel’s top far right wing politician said John Kerry got things 100% right when he said many Israeli leaders are dead-set against the two-state solution — but Naftali Bennett insisted that’s what makes Kerry so wrong to push for a Palestinian state. “It’s true. If it’s up to me, we will not establish another terror…
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Fast Forward Israel Attorney General Orders Criminal Probe of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel’s attorney-general has ordered police to open a criminal investigation in two unspecified matters involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Channel 10 television said on Wednesday. When asked, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman declined to respond to the report. Netanyahu has in the past denied wrongdoing in the purchase of submarines from Germany, where media have…
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Israel News 5 Israeli Politicians Trying to Score Points off UNSC Anti-Settlement Resolution
Israel is in an uproar over last week’s United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements, which the United States greenlighted by withholding its veto. But as Israeli politicians from the hard right to center-left condemn the resolution, some are finding a silver lining: scoring political points with the voting public. Here are the five…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slams John Kerry Speech as ‘Skewed Against Israel’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Middle East speech on Wednesday was biased against Israel. In a statement in English issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu said: “Like the Security Council resolution that Secretary Kerry advanced in the U.N., his speech tonight was skewed against Israel.” The Israeli leader…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Seeks To Rally Israelis With No-Holds-Barred Attack on ‘Underhanded’ Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its “shameful” decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli settlement-building. But with the clock ticking down on Barack Obama’s presidency, a possibly more amenable Republican Donald Trump waiting in the…
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Opinion David Friedman’s Critics Are Wrong — Here’s Why
Is it possible to be too pro-Israel for some Jews? Apparently, it is – given the hyperventilated response to President-elect Trump’s nomination of David Friedman to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. I understand that Friedman has made some remarks that do not comport with the views of many on the opposite end of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Lashes Out at UN After Anti-Occupation Resolution
Israel will re-assess its ties with the United Nations following the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. The vote was able to pass the 15-member council on Friday because the United States broke with a long-standing approach of diplomatically…
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