This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Opinion Why Benjamin Netanyahu Is Wrong To Cite ‘American Values’ in Jerusalem Feud
Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn a goodly measure of criticism for his latest verbal tussle with the White House, culminating in his charge that the Obama administration violated “American values.” Frankly, most of the criticism is undeserved. There’s a lot to be said about the exchange and the bilateral tensions it reflects, but the prime minister’s…
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Opinion A Kippah on the Head of Israel’s Intelligence Chief
It seemed at first little more than a throwaway line in an otherwise wonkish interview-profile of Israel’s outgoing chief of Military Intelligence, Major General Aviv Kochavi, appearing September 19 in Yediot Aharonot. “In the final days of his term in M.I.,” military correspondent Alex Fishman wrote, “Kochavi finds himself trying to make the case that…
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Opinion Why Hamas Never Wanted War — and Knows It Lost
Hamas is eager to have Mahmoud Abbas’s U.S.-trained Presidential Guard take control of the border crossings between Gaza and Israel. But the Islamist organization isn’t likely to give in to pressure from Abbas and the West to put its own military wing under Abbas’s control, nor to let officials of the proposed Fatah-Hamas unity government…
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Fast Forward White House Hits Back Hard at Benjamin Netanyahu Over Jerusalem Settlements
The White House rejected criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a withering response on Monday, accusing him of refusing to acknowledge how much help the United States has been to Israel over the years. A long-time split between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu appeared to widen further after the Israeli leader’s visit to…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Holds Bible Study Session With Parents of Slain Teens
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a Bible study session, attended by the parents of three Israeli teens kidnapped and killed this summer. Iris and Uri Yifrach, Rachel and Avi Fraenkel, and Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaar joined the Tanach Study Circle, a tradition started by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and which was renewed…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu ‘Baffled’ by U.S. Rebuke Over East Jerusalem Building
The U.S. condemnation of Israeli housing starts in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood is “against American values,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. In an interview Sunday morning on the CBS News show “Face the Nation,” Netanyahu said he was “baffled” by the criticism. “What we are being criticized for is that some Jewish residents of…
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Opinion How Israel Hides Its Asylum Seeker Problem
Lily Padula “There is no asylum seeker problem in Israel.” So said Netanyahu when, following his recent address to members of the Jewish Federations of North America in New York, one of the attendees raised the issue of African asylum-seekers. “They are illegal job immigrants,” the Israeli prime minister said, adding: “Asylum seekers can come…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Reacts to J Street Campaign Comparing Him to Beyonce
Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking on Fusion, the Hispanic-millenial targeting network, reacted to the J Street campaign in which his caricature appears in a Beyonce pose, captioned “If You Like It, Then You Should Put a Border On It.” “You’ve never been compared to Beyonce, I’m sure,” interviewer Jorge Ramos says. “Wow,” Netanyahu says. “There are a…
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