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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Accuses West of Allowing Nuclear Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rebuffed criticism in Washington of his plans to speak in Congress, accusing world powers of forsaking a pledge to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “I respect the White House and the President of the United States but on such a fateful matter, that can determine whether or…
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Breaking News Arab Envoys Will Skip Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to Congress
Israel’s ambassador to the United States has unsuccessfully lobbied the envoys of at least two Arab countries to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. Amb. Ron Dermer sent emails to the ambassadors of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates encouraging them to come to the speech due to “a common interest” in thwarting…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Says No to Meeting With Democratic Senators
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined on Tuesday an invitation to meet with U.S. Senate Democrats during his trip to Washington next week. “Though I greatly appreciate your kind invitation to meet with Democratic Senators, I believe that doing so at this time could compound the misperception of partisanship regarding my upcoming visit,” Netanyahu…
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Breaking News 2 Top Democratic Senators Invite Bibi for Meeting
(Reuters) — Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators during his upcoming visit to Washington, warning that making U.S.-Israeli relations a partisan political issue could have “lasting repercussions.” Senators Richard Durbin and Dianne Feinstein extended the invitation “to maintain Israel’s dialog with…
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Opinion Speech-Gate Won’t Dethrone Benjamin Netanyahu — But Bottle Deposits Might
It’s been a month since Benjamin Netanyahu first infuriated the White House by accepting a Republican invitation to address Congress and attack the president’s Iran policy. A month in which American Middle East watchers have been asking anyone they could find whether the resulting chill in U.S.-Israeli relations would hurt the Israeli prime minister in…
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Breaking News 23 Democrats Call on GOP To Delay Benjamin Netanyahu Speech
Twenty-three Democrats wrote John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, urging him to delay Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. The letter, sent to Rep. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday, was spearheaded by Reps. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). It said the March 3 speech was…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu’s Feud With White House Deepens as Speech to Congress Looms
(Reuters) — For someone who was educated in the United States, speaks fluent American-accented English and worked as a management consultant in Boston, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sure knows how to rub his closest ally up the wrong way. In surprisingly critical and unvarnished comments on Wednesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest accused Israel…
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Israel News Will Black Lawmakers’ Anger Over Benjamin Netanyahu Speech Hurt Support for Israel?
In fewer than 140 characters, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York summed up the feelings of many African-American lawmakers toward Israel’s leader these days. “Bibi:” the 23-term representative tweeted, “If you have a problem with our POTUS’s foreign policy meet me at AIPAC but not on the House floor.” Rangel, a frequent attendee of…
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