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Opinion 5 Ways for Barack and Bibi To Get Along Better
(JTA) — Now that enactment of the Iran nuclear deal appears to be a sure thing, the profound and often personal disagreement between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran is not about to go away. In the contemplative spirit of the Days of Awe, we canvassed the experts to recommend…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Won’t Quit Doomed Fight Against Iran Deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to continue his campaign against the Iran nuclear deal, even as President Barack Obama has secured enough congressional support to sustain a veto of any effort to block it. Hours after Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced that she was supporting the agreement, effectively ensuring that the deal will…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Threatens Shoot-To-Kill Crackdown on Stone-Throwers
Israel is considering giving its security forces a freer hand to shoot at young Palestinian stone-throwers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. Under standing orders, Israeli soldiers facing violent Palestinian protests can open fire with live bullets only in life-threatening situations. That effectively bans firing at Palestinians who flee after hurling a rock…
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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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