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, Citing Familiar Themes, Says Palestinians Block Peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a major address asserted that the primary obstacle to Middle East peace is the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Netanyahu made his remarks Sunday at Bar-Ilan University — his first address there since a 2009 speech in which he famously declared his support for a…
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Opinion Feeding the Bad, Not the Good
David Barash, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington, tells an instructive story in a recent New York Times OpEd essay. The story, he tells us, is believed to be of Cherokee origin. “A girl is troubled by a recurrent dream in which two wolves fight viciously. Seeking an explanation, she goes to her…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat Hopes To Ride Bibi Backing to Reelection
Nir Barkat walked across town from his spacious and handsome home in Jerusalem’s Beit Hakerem neighborhood to a synagogue in affluent Talbieh. For part of the way, he was accompanied by the Netanyahu family. If it were up to the prime minister and his wife, Barkat − who was quick to commemorate Benjamin Netanyahu’s late…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ Warning on Iran Leaves Him as Lone Wolf
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that Iran’s new president was a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, but he himself looked increasingly like a lone wolf as his allies seek to bring Tehran into the fold. After years of worrying about Iran’s disputed nuclear ambitions, Netanyahu took to the stage at the U.N. General…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says He Would Take Phone Call From Iran Leader
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. media he would not initiate contact with the new Iranian president, but would not turn down an overture out of hand. “Yeah, we’re not the first to call,” Netanyahu told Piers Morgan, a CNN host who asked him in an interview segment broadcast Thursday if he would take…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu’s Warning on Iran Falls Flat
One of the Marx Brothers — I think it was Karl — once wrote that history has a way of repeating itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” He forgot to mention how hard it is to tell which is which. Case in point: Benjamin Netanyahu’s whirlwind, two-day United States visit at the end of…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Tells U.N. Israel Is Ready to Stand Alone on Iran — And Is Left Alone
(JTA) — The “credible military threat” against Iran that Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to hear while he was in the United States this week eventually emerged — from his own lips. The Israeli prime minister, in a blunt speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, warned that Israel was ready to go it alone…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls Hassan Rouhani ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ in U.N. Speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed a charm offensive by Iran’s new president as a ruse concocted by a “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” and declared that Israel was ready to stand alone to deny Tehran an atomic weapon. In a combative address to the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu spoke harshly about Hassan Rouhani,…
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