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Fast Forward Abe Foxman Urges Bibi To Dump Aide Who Mocked Obama and Kerry
Former Anti-Defamation League National Director Abe Foxman is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “distance himself” from the appointment of Ran Baratz as head of the Israel’s public diplomacy (hasbara) department in the Prime Minister’s Office. “No apology or explanation can now repair the damage,” Foxman said. “When Netanyahu didn’t know about Baratz’s statement,…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu Ignores Roots of Palestinian Violence — and Betrays His Party’s Founders
At a November 1 top-secret Israeli Cabinet meeting, the tension between Likud lawmakers and the country’s intelligence chiefs finally exploded. The chief of Military Intelligence, Major General Herzl Halevi, had come to deliver the Israel Defense Forces’ analysis of the terror wave plaguing Israel for the past month. The main causes, he reported, are tension…
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News Liberals Push Back Against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Fence-Mending Effort
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech at a liberal Washington think tank is provoking outrage from some progressives who say that the appearance gives a bipartisan sheen to his government’s right-wing policies. The Israeli leader’s scheduled November 10 appearance at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic left-leaning institution, is seen as an attempt…
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Fast Forward U.S. Hits Back at Israel Media Guru Over Anti-American Comments
The United States takes offense at comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new communications director accusing President Barack Obama of anti-Semitism and suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry had the mental abilities of a 12-year-old, the State Department said on Thursday. It said Kerry had spoken to the Israeli leader on Thursday and…
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Opinion How I Would Reaffirm Unbreakable Bond With Israel — and Benjamin Netanyahu
We have recently marked the 20th anniversary of the assassination of then Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, a good friend, a courageous warrior and a great statesman. This somber anniversary, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington on November 9, is an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bonds of friendship and unity between the…
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Opinion What Americans Don’t Know About the Middle East Conflict and Why
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows better than anyone else that if we Palestinians are permitted to engage non-violently, odds are we will expose Israel’s military occupation for what it is, a system of modern-day apartheid or worse. This is why, following his March election victory, Netanyahu assembled an extreme right-wing cabinet that would work…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Blasts Israeli Media for Downplaying Journalist’s ‘Incitement’ Against Him
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized his nation’s media for downplaying a journalist’s “incitement” against him in a post on his Facebook page. Netanyahu’s comments on social media followed his filing of a police complaint against Gilad Halpern, an editor of the English-language edition of Ynet, who uploaded a photoshopped image of Netanyahu in an…
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Opinion Blame Mahmoud Abbas for Violence? But He’s ‘Mr. Irrelevant’
It seems there are almost as many explanations for the current terror wave plaguing Israel as there are people trying to explain it. We’re told it’s caused by economic despair, rage at the occupation, hatred of Jews, alarm (false or otherwise) over the Temple Mount, and incitement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Each theory…
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