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Opinion More From Spy Chiefs: Palestine Conflict, Not Iran, Is Our Top Threat
Yesterday I posted my translation of a Facebook post by Yuval Diskin, the former director of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency. He wrote that Israel’s security is threatened by a growing anger and frustration among the Palestinian public — and that the frustration is due in large measure to Israeli government policies. Among those…
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Opinion Did Bibi’s ‘Vengeance’ Tweets Provoke Violence?
Getty Images In moments of national tension — Israelis know these all too well — one can expect a leader to measure every word on a scale that calms on one side and inflames on the other. So what are we to make of Benjamin Netanyahu’s tweets on Monday as the country was preparing to…
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Opinion Unruly Hebron Clan Pushes Hamas — and Israel — to Brink
Mourners at the fresh grave of Naftali Fraenkel, one of three Israeli teens murdered, allegedly by members of the Hamas-linked Qawasmeh family of Hebron. / Getty Images Now that the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers have been found and laid to rest, the crisis is rapidly turning into a wickedly complex, five-sided tug-of-war…
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Israel News As Israel Mourns Slain Teens, Everyone Wants Someone To Blame
The discovery of the bodies of three Israeli teens kidnapped in early June in the occupied West Bank touched Nissim Ibarith in a way that most other Israeli tragedies haven’t. “They were just boys,” said Ibarith, a Palestinian Israeli from the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. Ibarith heard the news during his shift sweeping the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Islamic Extremism Makes Israeli Presence in West Bank Necessary
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said turmoil in neighboring Arab countries counted out the removal of Israeli forces from the West Bank for “a very long time.” Netanyahu, speaking Monday to the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on the next steps in Israel-Palestinian peace, also outlined plans for a north to south border…
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Opinion Spooks Warn Pols: Don’t Strike Hamas Over Kidnap
Israeli troops search for evidence at site where the bodies of 3 kidnapped youths were found near village of Halhoul. / Getty Images Israel’s security cabinet was due to convene at 9:30 pm (2:30 New York time) to discuss Israeli responses to the murder of the three teenagers whose bodies were found just before 6…
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Fast Forward Israel Not Working for Kurdish Statehood, Avigdor Lieberman Says
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described Iraqi Kurdish independence as a fait accompli on Monday but said his country was taking no action to help the Kurds achieve formal statehood. The remarks appeared aimed at heading off potential confrontation with the United States, which wants to keep Iraq united, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Voices Support for Kurdish Independence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support for Kurdish statehood on Sunday, taking a position that appeared to clash with the U.S. preference to keep sectarian war-torn Iraq united. Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against shared Arab…
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