This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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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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Fast Forward Netanyahu Urges U.S. Jews to Oppose Iran Deal
The Iran nuclear deal will pave the path to Iranian nuclear weapons whether or not Iran keeps its end of the agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Iran could get to the bomb by keeping the deal, or Iran could get to the bomb by violating the deal,” Netanyahu said in a 20-minute webcast…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Visits Jewish Woman Burned in Jerusalem Firebombing
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a Jewish mother of three injured in a firebombing attack in northern Jerusalem. Inbar Azrak, 27, was hospitalized with burns at Hadassah Medical Center at Ein Kerem following Monday night’s attack, when a firebomb was thrown at the car in which she was riding with her…
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Opinion The Problem With Netanyahu’s Response to Jewish Terror
When you leave Jerusalem’s Western Wall plaza through the Dung Gate out of the Old City, your gaze turns naturally southward toward another hill glimmering in the distance, across the Valley of Hinnom. Christian tradition calls it the Hill of Evil Counsel, where the high priest Caiaphas consulted his aides before ordering Jesus arrested. In…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Israel Condemns Murders of Palestinians, Who Celebrate Killing of Jews
Israel condemns the murders of Palestinians, who celebrate the killing of Israelis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “This is what distinguishes us from our neighbors. We deplore and condemn these murderers. We will pursue them to the end. They name public squares after the murderers of children. This distinction cannot be blurred or covered…
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Letters Appeal to Authority
Among the most potent logical fallacies available to the polemicist is the “appeal to authority,” by which one attempts to suggest that the opinion of an expert on a question within the general area of his expertise must be correct. An “appeal to authority” is at the heart of J.J. Goldberg’s column “Israel Security Establishment…
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