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 Netanyahu Meets With Putin In Moscow To Discuss Syria
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and participate in the Victory Day Parade in Red Square. The parade commemorates the Allies victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Netanyahu went to Russia the day after President Donald Trump pulled out of the…
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Opinion Who’s Most Endangered By Trump’s Iran Deal Exit? Israel, Say Its Army Chiefs
After months of intense, worldwide speculation, Donald Trump finally pulled the trigger on U.S. participation in the Iran nuclear deal with his May 8 statement decertifying the deal and restoring sanctions on Iran. He’d been begged by the top leaders of America’s European allies to compromise, to let the deal’s framework stand and give them…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Offends Japanese Prime Minister By Serving Him Dessert In A Shoe
Prime Minister of Israel ?? and his wife ❤️ host the Prime Minister of Japan ?? Great honor to cook for you! Not obvious for me #unforgettable night ❤️?? A post shared by segevmoshe (@segevmoshe) on May 2, 2018 at 1:04pm PDT (JTA) — After a day of high-level meetings in Israel on May 2…
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Fast Forward New Israeli Law Allows Netanyahu And Lieberman To Declare War
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Parliament passed a law that would allow the country’s prime minister and defense minister to declare war. The law passed Monday evening, an amendment to the country’s Basic Law, transfers authority from the government to the smaller Security Cabinet to launch military operations and declare war. It passed by a vote…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Speech Proves What We Knew All Along — And That Changes Everything
Make no mistake: the Iranian archives that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently presented to the world are very important. Maybe the information we have seen so far is not new, although there is a multitude of documents that we might still hear about. But it comes straight from the horse’s mouth. These are Iranian…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, Trump Administration Officials Condemn Abbas’ Anti-Semitic Remarks
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he “another anti-Semitic speech” by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “With utmost ignorance and brazen gall, he claimed that European Jews were persecuted and murdered not because they were Jews but because they gave loans with interest,” Netanyahu said in a statement issued on Wednesday,…
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Opinion How American Jews Enable Bibi’s Never-Ending Cycle Of Abuse
There once was a feeling among American Jews that Benjamin Netanyahu was one of theirs. For decades, Israel had been represented on the international stage by a parade of grey, rumpled bureaucrats, brash generals and uncouth political hacks. When Bibi arrived on the scene, immaculately dressed and without a trace of accent, it was as…
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Fast Forward Sean Hannity Just Compared ‘Boy Cried Wolf’ Netanyahu To Churchill
Never in the field of conservative media has anyone gone so overboard. Fox News host Sean Hannity had the chutzpah to compare Benjamin Netanyahu to Winston Churchill after the Israeli Prime Minister released new intelligence reports showing that Iran had once sought nuclear weapons. Watching the Prime Minister of Israel @netanyahu is like watching the…
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