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News What John Bolton’s Firing Means For Israel — And Bibi’s Reelection Chances
On Tuesday night in Israel, the major television stations broadcast what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised would be a “dramatic announcement.” The bigger drama, though, happened thousands of miles away. It overshadowed and undermined Netanyahu’s big moment. Netanyahu promised in his speech that after what he predicted would be his election victory on Tuesday, Israel…
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Israel News Netanyahu Promises To Annex West Bank Settlements If Re-Elected
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea if reelected. Speaking to the press a week before the election, Netanyahu also said that the Trump administration’s peace plan, which he said would be released days after the election, would provide a “historic…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Visits Hebron For First Time Since 1998, Vows Jews Will Remain
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, making his first visit to Hebron since 1998, said Wednesday that the West Bank city “will never be empty of Jews.” Netanyahu made the remarks at a ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the massacre of Jews in Hebron, a mostly Palestinian city about 18 miles…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Is Now Also Israel’s Ministers Of Defense, Health, Welfare And The Diaspora
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named himself as the country’s Minister of Welfare on Wednesday, a month after incumbent minister Haim Katz resigned amid expected criminal fraud charges. In addition to leading the country and now serving as Welfare Minister, Netanyahu is now also Israel’s Defense Minister, Health Minister and Minister of the Diaspora. It’s…
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Fast Forward Ocasio-Cortez: Criticizing Netanyahu Isn’t Anti-Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman Democrat congresswoman from New York, said her criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not be seen as shots at the Jewish state. “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” Ocasio Cortez told Israel’s Channel 12 News in a recent press…
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Fast Forward Fliers Claiming Jews Were Behind 9/11 Appear In Bay Area
(JTA) (J. The Jewish News of Northern California) — Anti-Semitic fliers saying that Jews and Israel were behind the 9/11 attacks appeared in Northern California about 30 miles from San Francisco. The fliers discovered last weekend in Novato, a city of about 52,000 in the North Bay area, were plastered on telephone poles, storefronts and…
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Opinion By Blindly Supporting Netanyahu, AIPAC Has Betrayed American Jews
Even if they have never attended it, just about everyone in the American Jewish community is aware of The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual Policy Conference, which attracts nearly 20,000 people and is billed as the largest pro-Israel. This one day Washington-based event features presentations by an array of journalists, academics, and commentators on…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Deafening Silence On Trump’s ‘Dual Loyalty’ Is A Betrayal Of Israel’s Founding Principles
Has Israel lost the principles upon which it was founded? I’m a Jewish immigrant living in America and I’m getting sick of this. Really sick. From the time he was a candidate up until today, President Trump has bashed immigrants, every day and every night. And every now and then, he has made statements about…
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