Former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) criticized Democrats threatening to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress and President Barack Obama’s rhetoric in the war on terror on Thursday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.
Much of the Congressional Black Caucus has decided to ignore Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress about the impending Iranian nuclear threat, insisting that their insult is justified by what they call Netanyahu’s ”disrespect” of Barack Obama.
Former White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod declared that President Obama feels “very much unrestrained” on the issue of Israel on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Lead” on CNN. After anchor Jake Tapper read a passage from Axelrod’s book that said
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.
Author and Professor at Yeshiva University Rabbi Benjamin Blech said he felt “betrayed” by threats to skip out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. “Congress is
Sen. Bernie Sanders won’t be on hand when Israel’s prime minister speaks to a joint session of Congress next month.
On March 3, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver what many believe will be an epic anti-Obama administration speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, over the president’s ongoing and ill-advised nuclear negotiations with Iran. Speaker John Boehner
CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was “interrupting” other foreign policy business and “there’s a sound reason why Congress doesn’t just get to call the foreign policy shots on Monday’s
During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House, President Barack Obama addressed the decision not to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Washington, D.C. next month, which includes an address
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).
New polls indicate that the surge enjoyed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in polls over the past two weeks may be ending. A survey of likely voters by the Times of Israel showed Netanyahu’s opposition, the Zionist Union, headed by opposition leader Isaac Herzog, now has a small but significant lead. In addition, among the roughly 1 in 4 voters still undecided before the Mar. 17 elections, more are leaning towards the opposition than Netanyahu’s Likud.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that President Obama was diving into “academic land” while “people are being slaughtered” on Thursday. Levin reacted to Obama’s statement at the National Prayer Breakfast that “people committed
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) said that it was “very, very clear that President Obama doesn’t like Netanyahu” and that “I wish Israel was treated, sometimes, like we treat Iran. We’re so careful about what we say and
Democrats won’t “boycott,” but might not attend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress.
House Democrats, knowing their primary allegiance is to Barack Obama, met Wednesday with Israeli officials in an attempt to forestall Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to Congress about a nuclear Iran.
A report at Politico says “dozens of House Democrats are privately threatening to skip” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 address, while Vice President Joe Biden has yet to commit to attendance. They might want to rethink their position, as a new Rasmussen poll finds considerable public support for Netanyahu’s speech.
Canadian academic William Schabas has resigned from his position as the head of the United Nations’ inquiry into war-crimes allegations in last summer’s Gaza war, which pitted Hamas against the Israeli Defense Force.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party recently released a wildly popular campaign commercial in which a couple expecting a babysitter is greeted instead by the “Bibi-Sitter.”
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that the declining relationship between the US and Israel was due in part to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan argued there
When trying to make sense of Barack Obama’s foreign policy, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that a great deal of it has been meant to reward, placate, or at least avoid angering Iran.
Israel’s Likud Party has petitioned the country’s elections committee to ban the Obama-connected V15 (Victory 2015) organization that is allegedly working together with another group, OneVoice, in an attempt to sabotage Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chances at reelection.
While speaking at Turkey’s Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Ankara, and addressing members of his country’s Jewish community on Wednesday, Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek took the opportunity to use the memorializing moment to attack Israel for the war against Hamas in Gaza this past summer.
US Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1) teamed up on a strong letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry on January 29. It demanded a thorough investigation into the details behind news reports that US taxpayer dollars are being used to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu in the upcoming Israeli election.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is enjoying a surge in the latest opinion polls of Israeli voters. The Jerusalem Post reports that its latest poll shows Bibi’s party, the Likud, is leading the race for the first time in weeks. Other polls agree, and show the Likud leading its rival, the Zionist Union, which is a combination of the Labor and Hatnua parties.
The Obama Administration’s actions towards Israel become more intolerable each day, carrying with their insults deeply damaging national security implications for our country.
A bill that would levy tough new sanctions on Iran if it fails to sign an agreement to curb its nuclear program cleared a Senate committee on Thursday. But lawmakers are holding off on a full Senate vote to see whether diplomatic negotiations yield a deal.
Greece’s Alexis Tsipras escalates confrontation with Germany; Israel promises revenge after Hezbollah attack kills two soldiers; Hezbollah’s attack breaks a taboo from 2006 war
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” in an interview, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said “of course there is” antipathy in the Obama administration toward Netanyahu. Partial transcript as follows: BAIER: Are you surprised by the
On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer discussed the obvious conflict between the Obama White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahi. According to Krauthammer, it was perhaps a mistake for House Speaker
The speech that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver to a special joint session of the US Congress in March will be the most important address by an Israeli leader in the history of the Jewish state.
Hezbollah jihadists reportedly fired missiles that killed two Israeli soldiers in an army vehicle along the border with Lebanon on Wednesday morning. Another seven were wounded in the attacks with light to moderate injuries, according to Israeli media reports.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized President Obama for being “petulant” and “childish” by refusing to meet with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. Paul defended House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) extending an
On Tuesday morning Pope Francis sent out a tweet commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
January 27 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Located in occupied Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most infamous German death camp, in which over a million Jews, Romani, and others whom the Nazi regime deemed unfit for life were gassed and murdered.
Tuesday at the Republican leadership press conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) defended his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress without consulting the Obama administration saying, “We had a right to do it and we
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blistered President Barack Obama for making time to give interviews to YouTube bloggers while brushing off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) invited Netanyahu to address Congress in March, and the
Israel’s premier says he will go “anywhere” he is invited to speak about the country’s stance regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
Speaking at Iowa’s Freedom Summit on January 24, former Hewlett Packard CEO and possible Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina explained differences between herself and the Democrat’s favorite female candidate, Hillary Clinton. One of those differences is that Fiorina understands that
On Friday, White House spokesperson said that President Barack Obama would not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Washington, D.C. in March due to a policy of not meeting with foreign leaders prior to their election campaigns, “to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election in a foreign country.” However, that excuse proves empty against the historical record, as Bill Clinton met then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres in 1996.
YouTube celebrity “GloZell” Green, best known for eating cereal from her bathtub and snorting a latex contraceptive, has responded to Rob Lowe’s critical remarks of her personal interview with President Obama.
