Benjamin Netanyahu - Page 85

The Jerusalem Post reports: release his full report on 2014’s Operation Protective Edge “before [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] fails in the next war,” Labor leadership candidate MK Erel Margalit said on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – In the latest altercation between the United Nations and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the latter’s offer to provide UN diplomats with history lessons on Jewish ties to the Temple Mount was swiftly declined by a UN official.

The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the Islamist group was “not calling for war” with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working behind the scenes to defuse the worst flare-up in violence since a 2014 conflict.

KIDMAT ZVI, Golan Heights (AP) — With his wide-brimmed hat, Wrangler jeans and ornate belt buckle, Yehiel Alon could easily pass for one of the Montana ranchers he once worked with.

The Jerusalem Post reports: there is no basis to reports that Germany wants to reassess the nature of its ties with Israel, Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold said Wednesday following a day of talks in Berlin with top German foreign policy officials.

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would upgrade its ties with the 28-member NATO military alliance by opening a permanent mission to its Brussels headquarters. “I declare that Israel will accept the invitation and open

The Times of Israel reports: Shots fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon struck an IDF vehicle near the northern border with the Palestinian enclave, the army said in a statement.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s opposition Labor party said on Tuesday that it was weighing severing ties with its British counterpart after fresh allegations of anti-Semitism in its ranks.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Recent revelations of anti-Semitism among British Labour MPs and officials show the extent to which radical Islam has made inroads in Europe, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday.

Fox News reports: Israel, Egypt, and Hamas agree on at least one thing: their mission to prevent the Islamic State terrorist group from expanding its grasp.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German government official denied on Sunday a magazine report which said Berlin might end its unconditional support for Israel due to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s increasing frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies.

TEL AVIV – A senior official in Jerusalem denied a report on Saturday that claimed Germany is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s settlement policies and Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she understands why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking the support of the UN Security Council.

Ynetnews reports: A week after the unprecedented confrontation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bayit Yehudi Chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a Security Cabinet meeting and first revealed on Ynet, Bennett addressed the clash on Thursday in a Facebook post in which he clarified that he had no intention of backing down from his position.

The Washington Post reports: CAIRO — The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt is staging increasingly sophisticated and daring attacks, officials and analysts say, prompting Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian militant group Hamas to form an unlikely alliance against the terrorist group.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Germany is beginning to re-examine its longstanding policy of near-automatic support for Israel in light of what it perceives as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s disinclination to move toward a two-state solution to the Palestine question. According to

(AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked a new diplomatic brushfire by declaring that the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, is and should remain “under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”

The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday officially rejected a French initiative aimed at relaunching peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, saying the plan undermines the process by “distancing” the prospect of direct talks between the two sides.

TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia will open an embassy in Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts the Arab Peace Initiative, an influential retired Saudi major general said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created the circumstances that led to the assassination of former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered in 1995, claimed former U.S. official Lawrence Wilkerson, who has reportedly advised Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously voiced alarm over Israeli statements about the Golan Heights on Syria’s border with Israel, a declaration that elicited a sharp response from Israel.

TEL AVIV – Peace will come when the world and the Palestinians realize that direct negotiations is the only way forward, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations contended in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times.

TEL AVIV – More Israelis believe Hillary Clinton will be better for Israel than Donald Trump, while the majority of Israelis (51%) believe that any of candidate is preferable to President Barack Obama as far as the Jewish state is concerned.

Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that while “it’s hard to disagree with” Bibi Netanyahu’s position that Israel will keep the territory it has, Secretary of State John Kerry “made a heroic effort” to with his attempts to get a two-state solution

TEL AVIV – Two days after the Jerusalem terror attack in which a bus exploded, police said on Wednesday that they are being hyper-vigilant against any threats when tens of thousands of Jews and Christians come to the capital over the Passover festival.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of their meeting on Thursday that the Golan Heights is a “red line” for Israel and it must remain a part of it.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett erupted at Wednesday’s security cabinet meeting, with the premier reportedly threatening to fire Bennett over the Bayit Yehudi leader’s objection to the meeting’s agenda.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was slated to travel to Russia Thursday morning for a quick round of a meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin during which the leaders are expected to discuss Syrian fighting and weapons sales to Iran.

TEL AVIV – While not officially claiming responsibility for Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, Hamas announced in a statement that a Bethlehem native suspected of detonating the explosive device came from the Islamist group. This while Israeli security officials have yet to release information conforming that the explosion was a terrorist attack.

TEL AVIV – Following Vice President Joe Biden’s damning remarks about the Israeli government, the White House said that disagreements between Israel and the U.S. are “a matter of policy.”

Israel remains in favour of installing security cameras at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, even after Jordan reneged on the project due to Palestinian reservations, a senior official said Tuesday. “Israel’s support for placing cameras on the Temple Mount

Israeli forces destroyed the home of a Palestinian assailant who stabbed a woman to death in January before being shot dead by a security guard, the army said on Wednesday.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (pictured) reiterated on Tuesday that the EU does not recognize Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights, echoing a similar statement from the US the day before.

Apparently fearing Israeli retaliation, Hamas has evacuated its offices in Gaza following Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, according to multiple Hamas sources.

TEL AVIV – Following the IDF’s discovery of a Hamas attack tunnel, a private Israeli firm hired by Gaza-border communities may have found a second one in Israeli territory.

Pro-Israel groups slammed CNN over a headline which failed to mention that a bus explosion in Jerusalem was a terrorist attack.

Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu vows revenge for terrorist bombing in Jerusalem; Mahmoud Abbas lobbies to revive international interest in Palestinians; In a new catastrophe, hundreds of migrants drown in the Mediterranean Sea; China’s bond market starts to unravel