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 Far-Right Israeli Politician Visits Temple Mount, Defying Benjamin Netanyahu
A far-right politician who wants Jews to be allowed to pray at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa compound visited the site on Sunday, defying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for restraint after clashes this week between Israeli police and Palestinians. Sunday was the first day the compound, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple…
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Opinion When Israel’s Chickens Come Home to Poop
The policies of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister are starting to bear an eerie resemblance to climate change: The critics all look like a bunch of whining scaremongers prophesying an implausibly apocalyptic ruination that’s sure to come in some fuzzily distant end-time. Even if it’s true, it’s too far away to worry about. That is, until…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls for Temple Mount Calm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday urged lawmakers to show restraint over Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, which has been at the heart of rising tension with the Palestinians in recent weeks. Daily clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the streets of East Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple…
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Fast Forward ‘Chickenshit’? Maybe But That’s How Israelis Like Benjamin Netanyahu
(JTA) — An anonymous White House staffer apparently isn’t the only one who thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is shy about taking chances. A piece this week in The Atlantic magazine by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg ignited a firestorm with its revelation that an Obama administration official had called the Israeli prime minister “a coward” and “chickenshit.” But…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Reopened for Muslim Worshippers
The Temple Mount will reopen immediately to Muslim worshippers, the Israel Police said following security assessments. The announcement on Thursday evening came soon after the Obama administration called on Israel to reopen the area to Muslim worshippers. Entrance to Muslims for Friday prayers, however, will be restricted to men over the age of 50. Israel…
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Fast Forward White House Addresses ‘Asperger-y’ Comment About Benjamin Netanyahu
With all the media attention directed at the expression “chickenshit” used by anonymous senior administration officials to describe Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, some of the other insults contained in the Jeffrey Goldberg’s report went almost unnoticed. “Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous,…
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News Jews and Muslims Unite in Outrage as Israel Closes Temple Mount Over Violence Fears
Muslims and Jews united in outrage as Israel blocked all access to the Al Aqsa compound — known to Jews as the Temple Mount — amid fears of unrest following the shooting of a prominent right-wing Israeli activist and the police killing of his suspected attacker. Muslims in Jerusalem’s Old City prayed on the streets…
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The Schmooze Israeli Cartoon Shows Bibi as a 9/11 Terrorist
Today in things in poor taste: A Haaretz cartoon by Amos Biderman showing one Bibi Netanyahu, flying an Israel plane into an American building. Subtle. I guess people who lost a loved one on 9/11 will just have to get past that boring old thing called grief in the interest of depicting political tension.
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