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Opinion JeSuisBibi as Benjamin Netanyahu Jostles for Cameras
(Haaretz) — Just as you can sometimes identify Israeli tourists abroad by their loud voices, poor manners and gauche behavior, none of the hundreds of millions of people around the world who watched Sunday’s Paris rally on television had any problem locating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: smack in the middle of world leaders at the…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Rebuked by Rabbi for French Emigration Plea
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to ruffle a few feathers while taking part in the “Charlie Hebdo” rally in Paris on Sunday, an event his office initially said he would not be attending for security reasons. Perhaps most awkward was his invitation to French Jews – alarmed by the Paris attacks and the…
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Israel News Why Benjamin Netanyahu Attended Paris Anti-Terror March Over France’s Objections
French President Francois Hollande asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to come to Paris for the march against terror on Sunday, but the Israel premier decided to attend anyway after hearing that political rivals were going to be there, according to an Israeli source who was involved in the contacts between the Elysees Palace and…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Defends Decision To Attend Paris March
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to visit the site of the Paris supermarket attack less than a day after reports surfaced that the French president asked him to not attend the unity march. Netanyahu on Monday met with French Jewish community leaders, calling the memorial service the previous night at Paris’ Great Synagogue…
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Opinion After Paris Attacks, Let’s Not Repeat Past Mistakes
The last few days have brought us from terror to despair to tentative hope to… what? The cascading terror visited first on Charlie Hebdo and then on the kosher supermarket in Paris drove home a despairing reality: the ease with which hatred of Jews is ignited in a Europe that was supposed to have confronted…
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Opinion Lessons of Paris — and War on Terror
When you’re at war, it’s not enough simply to pick up a gun and start shooting. The other side will be doing the same thing. Of course you want to be tough and show you won’t be bullied. The trouble is, so do they. To succeed in war, you need to know certain things. You…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls on World To Act After Paris Terror Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a “global response” to the attack on a satirical magazine in Paris. Netanyahu issued his statement Thursday during a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende in Israel. “These extremists are part of a global movement and this necessitates a global response,” Netanyahu said of the slaying of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Gets 90% of Funds From U.S.
More than 90 percent of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection funds have come from the United States. Of the total contributions of nearly $259,000 — slightly over 1 million shekels — about $237,000 came from American donors, according to records made public by Israel’s State Comptroller and first published by BuzzFeed. Three wealthy families…
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