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 New Crop of IDF Chiefs Is Flock of Hardline Doves
The Israeli military has sent what amounts to a barely disguised message to the political leadership and the troops in the latest round of senior command promotions, announced April 25. With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process frozen, settler militancy on the rise and right-wing religious nationalists increasingly making their presence felt at the junior command level,…
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Fast Forward Israel Offers To Help Nigeria Find Kidnapped Girls
Israel offered Nigeria help on Sunday in locating 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram in an attack that has drawn global condemnation and prompted some Western powers to provide assistance. “Israel expresses deep shock at the crime against the girls,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quoted him as telling Nigerian…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Wants Spiffier Private Plane for Overseas Trip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, complaining he has to rely on “some antenna they stick on a window”, says he lacks reliable and encrypted communications on the chartered aircraft that fly him on visits overseas. The disclosure, by the leader of a country with deep security concerns, appeared in a report on Sunday by a…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority Joins 5 U.N. Global Treaties
The Palestinian Authority formally joined five global treaties at the United Nations. The membership became official on Friday, the United Nations told the French news agency AFP. The five treaties ban torture and racial discrimination and protect the rights of women, children and the disabled, according to the report. The membership comes after Palestinian Authority…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Wants ‘Jewish State’ Law
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would seek a new law declaring Israel a Jewish state, striking back against a Palestinian refusal to recognise that status in now-collapsed peace talks. “I will promote a Basic Law that will define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people,” Netanyahu said in a speech…
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Opinion 5 Reasons Israel Was Smart — Not Right — To Kill Peace Talks
Getty Images For Benjamin Netanyahu, timing is a beautiful thing. When Mahmoud Abbas announced the formation of a Fatah-Hamas unity government on Wednesday, Bibi knew he had it made. He pulled out of the peace talks on Thursday, doing the smartest possible thing at the smartest possible moment. Not the wise thing, not the morally…
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Opinion Obama’s Peace ‘Pause’ Spells Victory for Bibi
Getty Images There’s a lot of talk about what Barack Obama and John Kerry should, or can, or might, or won’t do in support of the two-state Israeli-Palestinian peace that has been a stated American policy goal for many, many years, following the collapse of talks. On Friday morning, we learned that Obama has suggested…
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Opinion Bibi’s Peace-Talk Halt: Bad Tactic — or Bad Faith?
Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mahmoud Abbas in 2010/Getty Images Israel’s decision today to suspend peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization, in response to yesterday’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement, is really three distinct decisions. One is sensible. The second is understandable if questionable. The third is inexcusable. The first decision is the actual suspension of talks,…
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