Netanyahu apparently has a Mossad Leak problem
Israels Mossad told its allies that Iran was not working to produce nuclear weapons just a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned it was barely a year from being able to do so; [.] Netanyahu apparently has.. to the security of Israel. Hes a very different PM than Israel has known in the past. A lot of those top guys go back to Rabin. They remember that lost promise of peace. Life is too short and shit gets too real to live in fear. by bastrop on Mon Mar 02,��.
Rivlin urges Ban to take a stand against Palestinian ICC bid
The president declined a meeting with US President Barack Obama during his visit to the United States after the American president decided not to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the latter arrives in Washington in early March to.
Netanyahu: Herzog and Livni will divide Jerusalem
Netanyahu, who 18 years ago claimed Shimon Peres will divide Jerusalem, said at the International Bible Contest on Tuesday that we will thwart all challenges and withstand all pressures. Im telling you here, on this day, on the last candle of.
Netanyahu has caused Israel the most strategic damage on.
���The person that has caused Israel the most strategic damage when it comes to the Iranian issue is the prime minister,��� he told us.. ���But we began to grasp the enormity of the challenge only in 2002-2003, during Sharons term in office... The head of the CIA is a political appointee; the national security adviser is a political appointee; the secretary of state is a political appointee.. We worked towards achieving a ceasefire that simply begins the countdown to the next confrontation.���.
A selection of views on Kerrys peace initiative - Mondoweiss
If everything goes as expected, Saeb Erekat and Tzipi Livni, Minister Livni, and Isaac Molho will be joining me in Washington to begin initial talks within the next week or so, and a further announcement will be made by all of us at... On the security track, everybody knows that one of the greatest challenges to peace has always been the perception in Israel of the threat to Israel, and Israels security is paramount.. It should be obvious by now what his real agenda is.
The Peculiar Challenge of the Forthcoming Elections
Netanyahus chicanery is wondrous indeed to behold, but the honest truth is that the only real political belief Netanyahu holds to strongly is that he should be the prime minister, the correct specifications for the prime ministers bed on his state funded 747, and the correct shade. The Palestinians would suffer a lot more under that than they do under the inconveniences they have to put up with today because of the security threats their own people are responsible for.
Prime ministers should be immune from prosecution
The challenges faced by an Israeli prime minister are likely bigger than the challenges faced by all or most world leaders. In such a situation, we can give up on investigations against an incumbent prime minister. Nothing will happen if a criminal.
This House regrets that Ariel Sharon was not tried for war.
Entering electoral politics in 1973 as a member of the Israeli legislature, the Knesset, for Likud, he became the security adviser of PM Yitzhak Rabin, he had a spell between 1981 and 1983 as Minister of Defence, during which Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, parts of. [1] Israel Opinion, Ariel Sharon, the architect of Israel, ynetnews.com, 12 January 2014, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4475698,00.html.. Firstly, prosecutions are not always a deterrent to future crimes.
Ed Koch calls Jeremy Scahill a terrorist supporter and other.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3899089,00.html. He told Maan that ���the talks should stop as well as security coordination, and releasing political prisoners, in response to the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians... Prime minister tells forum of top seven government ministers he has no intention of allowing any vessels to breach Gaza naval blockade, now or later; referring to Rachel Corrie ship, en route to Israel, PM says: Well direct it to Israeli port��.
Its official: Israels Knesset votes to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the elections in an address to the nation Tuesday evening, shortly after he fired Finance Minister Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni of Hatnua. Lapid and Livni have been fiercely.
EU official: Huge challenge to reassure Jews
The EU faces a ���huge challenge��� to reassure Jews about their future in Europe after Islamist attacks in Paris, a top official said earlier this week as it discussed fresh counter-terror measures. European Commission First Vice President Frans.
Sharing election fever, sharing values
Prime Minister David Cameron commented on this at the Knesset. He said: .I remember being quite bemused as I sat listening to Israeli politicians telling me all about the challenges of coalition politics. They told me about building a coalition.
With north beginning to boil, Eisenkot is right man at right time
At present, with the Middle East in general, and Israels neighbors in particular, becoming less predictable and increasingly fragmented, volatile and self-destructive by the day, the most important challenge facing the incoming chief of staff is to.
Amid political tensions, Israel reportedly lobbies US for military funds
The prime minister is scheduled to speak Monday at AIPACs annual policy conference. The Obama administration will be represented at the event by UN Ambassador Samantha Power and national security adviser Susan Rice, who criticized Netanyahus .
Netanyahus vengeance theme - Mondoweiss
After vowing vengeance against human animals who killed Israeli teens, Israeli PM Netanyahu today walked back his language, saying that Israelis must remain cool-headed and seek justice. But the. This aid request is part of the 10-year Memorandum of Understanding signed by the United States and Israel in 2007 to gradually increase U.S. security assistance to Israel.. He can still wow the Israeli faithful with his bluster but a lynching looks real bad in Galut.
For Obama and Israel, the party is over
Analysis: Now that he is free of electoral pressures and has been challenged by Netanyahu, Obama is making it clear to Israel and its supporters that the presidential treatment of the Palestinian issue is about to take on a much more aggressive.
the nineteenth israeli knesset elections - GLORIA Center
Yet for varying political reasons, none of these individuals were at the head of a list able to mount a serious challenge to Netanyahus Likud in 2013. Barak had effectively terminated his own political. than national and security questions in his messages. As a result of this profusion of parties on the center and left, and the absence of a single authoritative leader around whom they could rally, Netanyahu was acknowledged as the near-certain next prime minister.
What to look out for in Israeli elections
In theory, he could end up denying the right-wing bloc a majority and joining with the left - or united with Finance Minister Lapid or others before the vote. No one knows if he really would - perhaps not even the smiling, down-to-earth Kahlon himself.
There will be no peace camp, Israelis warn US liberal Zionists
The next Israeli government is likely to be just as rightwing as the last, and no one is talking about peace in the election campaign, Mikhael Manekin and Gershom Gorenberg indicate to liberal US Jewish audiences.. Peace talks are not even being discussed in the campaign; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus message about Palestinians, ���Be very afraid,��� continues to resonate with the Israeli Jewish public. The ruling.. International-Ynetnews-Feb 8, 2015.
Netanyahu: No peace without real security
The talks ended because the Palestinians wanted them to, because Abbas chose a pact with Hamas over talks with Israel, Netanyahu claimed, and stressed that there was no peace without real security. No real security, without a long-term IDF presence.
Israeli report: Kerry proposed long-term Israeli military.
According to an unnamed Israeli diplomat, the American view of a post-settlement Israeli presence in a future Palestinian state, as presented this week by John Kerry, is very close to that of the Israelis. In fact, Kerry has. Kerry modestly stated that he presented ���some thoughts��� on post-agreement Israeli security deployment in the West Bank to both Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas. These ���thoughts��� were... Heres the latest proposal from the real world:.
The next prime ministers real security challenge
Analysis: In order to successfully deal with the serious threats Israel is facing, some of which may materialize as early as this year, the winner of the 2015 elections must be capable of reaching intimate cooperation and understandings with the.
Israel carried out 35 attacks against Palestinians in East.
Next, New Orleans Mayor Landrieu stressed a belief in tikkun olam, the Jewish principle of ���repairing the world���, and almost in the same breath, an unending support for Israel.. A couple weeks after being rejected by the General Assembly for a position on the Security Council, Canadas Prime Minister Stephen Harper has expressed his sour grapes at the rejection stating that Canada will not pretend... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3982560,00.html.
Swedish, Palestinian forge deeper ties with more aid, embassy
During Abbas visit, Swedish prime minister says embassy will immediately open in Stockholm, months after Sweden became first western EU country to recognize Palestine as state; Abbas vouches to work for peace with Israel. Reuters .
Eisenkots challenges
Eisenkot , who will take up his new post in mid-February 2015, does not know if the man who appointed him and is supposed to provide him with political backing will even be defense minister in the next government. Nor does he know if he could even be.
Homeland season 4 finale upsets Israel
Homeland has continued to ruffle feathers across the globe, after a scene in the season finale sparked outrage in Israel by comparing former prime minister Menachem Begin to a fictional Taliban leader. Just days after the Pakistani government hit out.
Return Of The Jewish Neocons | Real Jew News
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King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Photo: AP
In Lebanon, Abdullah backed Sunni allies against the Iranian-backed Shiite guerrilla group Hezbollah in a proxy conflict that flared repeatedly into potentially destabilizing violence. Saudi Arabia was also deeply opposed to longtime Iraqi Prime.
Palestinian drivers challenge Israeli-only roads in the West.
. African Palestinians- identity and challenges. Please join us on January 10 at 8:00 pm as Yasser Qoz, a member of the African Committee in Jerusalem, discusses the identity, roles, and challenges of African Palestinians.
Controversy mounts over Netanyahu speech to Congress.
In order to do our part to make the Israeli Prime Minister feel welcome in Washington, ECI will host a reception in the Prime Ministers honor to make clear, in case theres any doubt, that whatever the president does or says, Americans.. And picture when Netanyahu comes to the beltway the next month, hell make his tired case that he wants security assurances from the US regarding Iran, but he wont offer any fig leaf in return ��� the settlements will continue, and hell��.
Israeli army escorts 500 Jewish Israelis into controversial.
AFP ��� Israeli settlers warned on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face his day of judgment if he caves in to pressure to further limit settlement construction in the West Bank.. BETHLEHEM (Maan) ��� EU foreign affairs and security chief Catherine Ashton said Tuesday she was concerned by the conviction of a Palestinian anti-wall campaign leader by an Israeli military court on charges of incitement and organizing demonstrations. The EU��.
Lawfare ��� Todays Headlines and Commentary
. and Commentary �� Next Days Headlines and Commentary ��. The conditions were to mirror those as maximum security prisons around the United States and interrogations would proceed in accordance with the U.S. Army Field Manual. The report suggests that then.. Israeli website Ynetnews reports that party strongman and former Interior Minister Gideon Saar will not challenge Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the Likuds helm. Saars statement��.