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 Opens Shoah Exhibit at Auschwitz Holocaust Museum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a new permanent exhibit titled “Shoah” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The ceremony took place Thursday in what used to be the Nazi extermination camp at the former Prison Block 27, which has been designed as an exhibit showing the death camp in the larger context of genocide in…
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Fast Forward What Israel Should Learn From Nelson Mandela
Compare Benjamin Netanyahu to Nelson Mandela, the world’s iconic peacemaker, who is now old and ailing in a Pretoria hospital. He is unable to help us with our predicament, though perhaps his legacy can. It occurred to me to examine whether Israel in 2013 can learn any lessons from Mandela’s extrication of South Africa from…
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Opinion How Bibi’s Right Flank Maneuvers To Box Him In
The guessing game continues: Will he or won’t he? Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to open peace negotiations with the Palestinians on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative — meaning, in effect, agreeing to start from the pre-1967 armistice lines as the basis for negotiating future borders? Netanyahu is under pressure. He…
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Fast Forward Israel Has Frozen East Jerusalem Settlements Since Beginning of 2013
Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman responded on Monday to reports on Army Radio, which said there has been a de facto settlement freeze in Jerusalem neighborhoods located beyond the Green Line since the beginning of the year. “One should view this as a temporary hiatus,” Lieberman said. “We have an interest in [Secretary of State]…
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Opinion Shin Bet Big: Bibi’s Stand Keeps Abbas from Talks
Speaking of intelligence leaks, Israel had one last week that speaks volumes about the prospects for Secretary of State Kerry’s Middle East peace mission. Consider how a June 4 classified briefing to the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee was described the next day in Maariv’s lead headline: “Shin Bet chief: Abu Mazen Doesn’t Believe…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Disavows Claim from Cabinet Minister That Israel Opposes Two States
Israel’s prime minister said he would work with John Kerry to advance peace talks with the Palestinians, following a government official’s assertion that the ruling coalition opposes a two-state solution. “(T)ogether we will try to advance a way to find an opening for negotiations with the Palestinians with the goal of reaching an agreement. This…
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Fast Forward Desperate To Revive Talks, Kerry Returns to Israel — Again
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week for his fifth visit to the region in barely two months to extend his push for a revival of peace talks, sources on both side said. A senior American official indicated in March that Washington would try…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Suggests He Will Consider Revised Arab Peace Plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled readiness on Wednesday to consider a 2002 Arab peace plan whose terms were recently softened to include possible land swaps between Israel and the Palestinians. “We are listening to every initiative – the Arab initiative has been mentioned – and we are prepared to discuss initiatives that are proposals and…
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