Netanyahu recounted his government’s achievements — economic, technological, military, and diplomatic — in what was likely the last speech of his term as prime minister.
Naftali Bennett, the likely incoming prime minister of Israel, addressed Israel’s Knesset on Sunday afternoon and thanked the U.S. for its support during the recent war with Hamas, but also stressed Israel’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.
Israel’s new government is facing a crisis of legitimacy as a prime minister whose party won only 6% of the vote is set to take the reins of government, while the party that won the most votes is being pushed out of office and into opposition.
As a coalition of anti-Benjamin Netanyahu politicians look to drive him from Israeli politics, many are seizing the opportunity to recast the legacy and motivations of one of the most consequential world leaders of the last century, according to Aaron Klein, a senior adviser to the prime minister.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday slammed the new emerging coalition that will unseat him from power as “dangerous and leftwing,” and accused his political rival Naftali Bennett, who will succeed him as prime minister, of “selling out.”
Like Margaret Thatcher, Benjamin Netanyahu is being brought down by rivals on the right after over a decade of astonishing success.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s former aide, Naftali Bennett, is on track to replace him as prime minister after Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid announced the formation of a unity government on Wednesday.
Israel’s Knesset elected a new president, Isaac Herzog, on Wednesday, placing a former left-wing rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a ceremonial role even as Netanyahu’s rivals struggled to meet a deadline to form a government.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) government courted by President Joe Biden with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars released a music video last month encouraging Palestinians to step on the U.S. and Israeli flags.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was in Israel with Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) to see the sites where Israel was attacked by the rockets from the Palestinian Hamas terrorists, being targeted at by Israeli civilians.
Antisemitism in the U.S. is much worse than it appears and is on the rise because of “woke culture,” intersectionality and parallels with the Black Lives Matter movement, the heads of a major U.S. Jewish group said this week.
Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” from Israel to discuss the perpetually transitioning government in Israel and the Israel-Palestine situation.
Right-wing party leader Naftali Bennett announced he plans to join Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in a unity government that will unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years in office and see a motley coalition formed between right-wing, centrist and leftist parties.
Naftali Bennett, the leader of the right-wing Yamina party in Israel, faces possible defections from his ranks as he tries to participate in a left-dominated coalition to replace incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next 48 hours.
Israel’s military chief alleged in private Gaza-based journalists of the Associated Press (AP) drank their morning coffee with members of the Hamas terror group in the building the Israel Defense Forces felled during the recent 11-day war, a new report said.
Ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s maiden visit to Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday hinted Israel could take military action against Iran’s nuclear sites without U.S. approval.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be imprisoned for “war crimes” against the Palestinian people, far-left Labour MP John McDonnell said on Saturday at a protest in London.
Joe Biden noted that the last time hostilities broke out in Israel during Obama’s watch it took 56 days and six months to negotiate a ceasefire.
Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the head of a rival political party for referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “the Israeli version of Erdogan.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the Israeli people for their “resilience” during eleven days of conflict with Hamas, calling Operation Guardians of the Walls a success and saying that Hamas had been dealt a “blow it cannot imagine.”
President Joe Biden is sending diplomat Michael Ratney to represent the U.S. in Israel in the absence of an official ambassador — despite Ratney’s role in an attempt by the Obama administration to interfere in Israel’s 2015 election and oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
President Joe Biden said his administration had worked on “intensive high-level discussions” to bring about peace in the region and thanked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for negotiating a Hamas ceasefire.
Former President George W. Bush told Fox News on Wednesday the current conflict between Israel and Gaza is “Iranian influence targeted toward Israel,” and an attempt to dissolve the Trump administration-brokered normalization deals between the Jewish state and Arab nations.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) discussed the ongoing conflict between Israel and terrorist group Hamas.
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler called out congressional progressives for spreading misinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict, notably their promotion of the Hamas terrorist group’s positions while criticizing Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces began bombarding southern Lebanon on Wednesday in response to incoming terror rocket attacks.
President Joe Biden demanded Israel participate in “significant de-escalation” of its defensive war against Palestinian Hamas terrorists, the White House revealed Wednesday.
The U.S. received “further information” from Israel concerning its decision to strike an international media office building in Gaza on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. “We have received some further information through intelligence channels,” Blinken said from
President Joe Biden spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night, expressing support for Israel’s “right to defend itself” but at the same time calling for a ceasefire.
The Israeli military unleashed another heavy wave of airstrikes late Monday into Tuesday morning across the Gaza Strip, demolishing a host of terrorist tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders. Sixty-two fighter jets dropped 110 “guided armaments” on 65 targets in the retaliatory strikes.
“The President expressed his support for a ceasefire,” the White House related in a readout of the call with Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), in a statement Monday, said the “United States should not stand idly by,” allowing casualties to rise in Gaza while President Joe Biden allows “precision-guided weaponry” be given to Israel “without any strings attached.”
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that President Joe Biden should call for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is not acting with the
The White House on Monday called an early afternoon lid on President Joe Biden’s public activities after an extended weekend at home in Delaware.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken signaled Monday the United States would not call for a ceasefire in the Middle-East, opposing Democrat Senators demands Sunday.
The sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel has been approved by the Biden administration as the nation continues its daily battle against Hamas terror rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military unleashed a series of precision airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early Monday morning, destroying nine miles of terrorist tunnels and the homes of Hamas commanders.
Aaron Klein, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote Monday that Palestinian Hamas terrorists must be condemned for deliberately using foreign journalists as human shields as opposed to Israel being criticized for targeting a terror complex disguised as an office building.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the airstrike of a building that housed Associated Press and Al Jazeera offices was justified by intelligence the building contained a “Palestinian terrorist organization.”
Israeli airstrikes killed 33 Palestinians on Sunday as Hamas fired a morning barrage of rockets into Israel.
