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 Bibi and Abu Mazen Kiss
One can always dream, right? This photo(shopped) image has been making the rounds and it’s hard to tear your eyes away from that pucker. It’s one of a series from a new ad campaign from Benetton that harkens back to the days when they were regularly producing wonderfully subversive ads that demanded a double take…
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News Palestinians Rethink Statehood Bid
Israelis warned of a “diplomatic tsunami,” Palestinians promised a game changer that would reshape Middle East peacemaking, and the White House and Congress geared up for an all-out battle inside and beyond the United Nations. But on November 11, the Palestinians’ initiative to gain statehood recognition from the U.N. Security Council ended finally not with…
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Fast Forward Bibi Clamps Down on Free Speech: Opposition
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has set upon itself to limit free speech and declare war on Israel’s judicial system, Labor leader MK Shelly Yachimovich said on Sunday, adding that a wave of recent Likud bills was pushing Israel away from the democratic world. Yachimovich’s comment came after, earlier Sunday, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation…
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Israel News Should Israelis Debate War With Iran?
A recent poll showed that a majority of Israelis believe that a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities will prompt a broader war with Hamas and Hezbollah, even though the public is evenly split on whether to launch a military attack on Iran in the first place. This national ambiguity means that it’s not at all…
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Fast Forward Sarkozy Reflects World’s Frustration With Bibi
If a remark by French President Nicolas Sarkozy publicized Tuesday is any indication, not much is left of what was once a strong friendship between himself and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dating back to when both men were finance ministers. The French president, unaware last Thursday that a mic in the meeting room at the…
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Fast Forward Sarkozy Tells Obama: Can’t Stand ‘Liar’ Bibi
Ooops. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was caught on an open microphone telling President Barack Obama last week he was fed up with dealing with Benjamin Netanyahu and considered the Israeli prime minister a liar. Sarkozy made the comment during a private conversation with Obama during a G20 summit in the French riviera town of Cannes…
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News Canada Stakes Out Strong Pro-Israel Stand
Canada’s foreign affairs minister, John Baird, reacted swiftly last month when word reached him that the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to Ottawa had promoted a YouTube video in which a Palestinian girl urged sympathizers to “destroy the Jews.” Linda Sobeh Ali’s re-Tweet of the video, Baird made clear, had ended her credibility as a diplomat in…
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Opinion Israeli Democracy Questions War on Iran
The infighting in Israel over whether or not to attack Iran, which went public more than a week ago and will continue unless and until the bombs start falling, shows this country at its best and worst. So far, the best is winning. Until Israel’s No. 1 journalist, Nahum Barnea, exposed it in his Yediot…
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