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 Benjamin Netanyahu Plans Landmark Visit Down Under
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first Israeli prime minister to visit Australia while in office. Media reports in Australia and Israel on Wednesday suggested that Netanyahu would spend one week in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne in mid-July following an invitation by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott when the pair met in Davos, Switzerland,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Unload Iranian Weapons Ship Bound for Gaza
Israeli military forces began unloading and searching the cargo of an Iranian ship captured in the Red Sea carrying weapons bound for Gaza. The civilian vessel the Klos C, which was carrying the weapons, including medium-range missiles capable of hitting major Israeli cities, hidden amid commercial cargo, arrived in the Eilat port on Saturday afternoon,…
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News Benjamin Netanyahu Gives Declawed AIPAC Little To Fight For
Something was off-kilter in Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 4 appearance before the annual Washington policy conference of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying powerhouse. After five years of raging that the Obama administration was too hard on Israel and too soft on Iran, the Israeli leader faced a record crowd of 14,000 activists ready to storm the barricades…
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Fast Forward Israel’s New ‘Jewish State’ Threatens To Derail Peace Talks
When peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians resumed last July, everyone assumed that the main sticking points would remain, as ever, security, borders, the status of Jerusalem and the plight of refugees. It looks like everyone was wrong. As the United States struggles to put together a framework deal that will allow negotiations to…
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Israel News At AIPAC, Mideast Peace Process Is Way Down the Agenda
“You can clap,” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the crowd of pro-Israel activists during a rare awkward moment in the otherwise meticulously orchestrated gathering. The Israeli leader was asking the 14,000-strong audience to back his call for Palestinian leadership to move forward with the peace process. “You want to encourage them to do that….
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Demands Palestinians Recognize Jewish State in AIPAC Speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers on Tuesday not to allow Iran to retain the ability to enrich uranium, and urged Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state if they wanted peace. Addressing the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC in Washington after White House talks on Monday, Netanyahu broke no new ground on Middle…
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News Put Abbas to the Test
The tendentious exchange between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu these last few days underscores how differently each man views the third party in the on-again, off-again Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. That would be Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. So diametrically opposed are Obama and Netanyahu in their public assessment of the Palestinian leader that there…
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Fast Forward Obama Assures Netanyahu Of Commitment To Preventing Nuclear-Armed Iran
President Barack Obama assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Washington remains committed to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and also called on Israel and the Palestinians to compromise to reach a U.S.-brokered peace framework. In a meeting at the White House, Netanyahu told Obama that no country has a greater stake…
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