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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Insists Ready for Peace Talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a meeting with peace activists that he is prepared to continue negotiations with the Palestinians. “I am ready now to go to Ramallah or any other place in order to meet and hold direct negotiations without preconditions,” Netanyahu told three representatives from Women Wage Peace at a meeting…
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Opinion 4 Dramas Exposed by the Forward’s Interview With President Obama — Real and Fake
Jane Eisner’s brings into relief no fewer than four separate dramas that have come to a head in the last year — three real, one fake. The fake one is the so-called crisis in U.S.-Israel relations. Here I agree fully with both the President and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Disagreement over the Iran deal…
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Opinion Don’t Fall for ‘Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome’ on Iran Deal
In real estate, they say, it’s location, location, location. In policy, especially military policy, the secret is timing. Let me explain. Lately there’s been a mini-hubbub on the Web, aimed at discrediting my coverage of the Iran nuclear debate. My critics keep claiming I said something I never said: that Israel’s security establishment likes the…
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Fast Forward Barak Calls Netanyahu ‘Weak’ in New Recordings
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called Benjamin Netanyahu “weak” in recordings aired on an Israeli news channel. “Bibi is weak, he doesn’t…he doesn’t want to take tough steps unless he is forced to do so,” Barak said in the recordings aired on Sunday on Israel’s Channel 2. The recordings are part of series of…
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Opinion The Game-Changing Iran Report That Bibi Fears
Israel’s military intelligence corps has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a surprising report assessing the opportunities and threats that the Iran nuclear deal poses for Israel. What’s startling about the report is not its substance, which is mostly a predictable mix of standard arguments presented for and against the deal: No nukes for 10 years,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Seeks To Rescue Teetering Diaspora Project
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to the Jewish Agency for Israel indicating his support for a renewed joint initiative between Israel and the Jewish world, JTA has learned, two weeks after the agency withdrew from a similar initiative in protest. In a letter sent earlier this month, Natan Sharansky and Chuck Ratner, the chairman…
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Fast Forward Israel Denies Reports of Truce Talks With Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office denied reports that Israel has been negotiating with Hamas. A statement from his office Monday was in response to media reports claiming that direct talks took place recently and were in their final stages. “Israel officially clarifies that there have been no meetings with Hamas. Not directly, not through…
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Opinion The Forward Discovers the Real Iran — Not Netanyahu’s Caricature
Over the course of the past 25 years, the image of Iran presented by the Israeli government has become increasingly simplistic, one-dimensional, void of any nuance — in short, incomplete at best and inaccurate at worst. The Iranian government itself has contributed greatly in reducing the image of Iran to an invariably menacing entity with…
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