
Netanyahu Charms ‘Progressives’ in Provocative Talk to Podesta Group
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charmed the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) in an unusual talk on Tuesday that some on the left had protested vehemently.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charmed the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) in an unusual talk on Tuesday that some on the left had protested vehemently.

GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee met with Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina came out swinging on foreign policy at the candidate forum in New Hampshire Monday night hosted by C-SPAN and the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Wednesday on NPR’s Morning Edition Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nuclear deal with Iran announced by the Obama administration on Tuesday guarantees Iran will become a nuclear state in a decade when the deal is over or whenever

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an angry warning Sunday about an impending nuclear deal between the world’s major powers and Iran, as negotiators drew close to a final agreement on Sunday. “We will not pay the price for this,” Netanyahu said, in a statement recalling the manner in which the West had abandoned Czechoslovakia to the Nazi regime at the Munich negotiations in 1938.

“The President congratulates the Israeli people, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the new governing coalition on the formation of Israel’s new government,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest released in a statement. “President Obama looks forward to working with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his new government.”

President Obama didn’t watch Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech. But the president is confident Netanyahu didn’t offer any ideas, and Obama’s sure his approach to Iran is better.

President Obama will apparently be too busy to watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. Obama has scheduled a conference call with European leaders.

Vice President Joe Biden is healthy enough to get out of town before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

National Security Advisor Susan Rice says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit next month to address congress is a mistake. She describes it as a partisan exercise that would damage the relationship that Israel has with the United States.

President Obama and his administration have implied that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak before Congress is a violation of protocol.

Americans–particularly conservative Americans–are accustomed to seeing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a strong international leader. He is “the Churchill of our time,” says talk radio’s Mark Levin. Yet Netanyahu struggled to win re-election in 2013, and faces stronger headwinds than ever as new elections approach on Mar. 17. Here are the top five reasons he may lose, and be replaced by opposition leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni (who would rotate the leadership).

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news that House Speaker John Boehner had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress, calling it a “departure from protocol.”