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22 Nov 2010

Netanyahu faces ‘freeze’ opposition

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has reportedly met stiff opposition within his cabinet to a US proposal for freezing settlement construction in the West Bank for 90 days. Netanyahu's cabinet has been mulling the proposal for two weeks, and the stakes for a future peace deal with the Palestinians might be high. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, on Sunday said he will not return to peace talks with Israel unless there is a freeze on settlement building that includes East Jerusalem.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has reportedly met stiff opposition within his cabinet to a US proposal...
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15 Nov 2010

Obama has made an offer Netanyahu can’t refuse

The list of defense-related and other gifts the U.S. administration is willing to offer to Israel in exchange for three months of construction freeze in the settlements raises suspicions that someone has gone mad. An additional extension of the freeze, which he has previously rejected out of hand, may spell a political and ideological headache for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - but the offer by U.S. President Barack Obama is very enticing.
The list of defense-related and other gifts the U.S. administration is willing to offer to Israel in exchange for three...
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6 Nov 2010

Netanyahu’s refusal to extend settlement freeze is hurting Israel

Israel must yield to the U.S. proposal to extend its recently expired settlement building freeze by two months, opposition leader Tzipi Livni said Friday, blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist government for weakening Israel's security and world standing.
Israel must yield to the U.S. proposal to extend its recently expired settlement building freeze by two months,...
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31 Oct 2010

Netanyahu risks diplomatic rift with France over settlement freeze

Relations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have become considerably tense following a telephone conversation between the two leaders 10 days ago. During that conversation, the French leader apparently asked Netanyahu to extend the settlement freeze in the West Bank so that peace talks with the Palestinians could be resumed.
Relations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have become considerably tense...
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29 Oct 2010

Crunch Time

Every recent Israeli prime minister has done things he never dreamed of doing. I won't go through the whole list, but consider Yitzhak Rabin's pivot from "break their bones" to the prince of peace, Ariel Sharon's decision to withdraw from Gaza, and Ehud Olmert's pained conclusion that an agreement with the Palestinians required "a withdrawal from nearly all, if not all" the occupied territories.
Every recent Israeli prime minister has done things he never dreamed of doing. I won't go through the whole list, but...
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25 Oct 2010

Some Question Insistence on Israel as Jewish State

The more stridently Israel insists on Palestinian recognition of it as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the more adamantly the Palestinian leadership seems to refuse. As a result, some senior Israeli officials are beginning to question the wisdom of the policy of their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made recognition of the legitimacy of the Jewish nation-state a prerequisite for any final agreement with the Palestinians.
The more stridently Israel insists on Palestinian recognition of it as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the more...
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22 Oct 2010

Netanyahu Only when Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state will they be ready for peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying that only then they will be ready to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Army Radio reported Friday. Speaking at a meeting of worldwide Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Friday, Netanyahu said that peace must be based on a mutual agreement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying...
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22 Oct 2010

Going, Going, Gone

Netanyahu stands at Israel s new political center, which is to the right of where it was five years ago. An iron-clad Israeli narrative exists: We removed settlements from Gaza and look what we got - Hamas rockets! That s the prism through which withdrawal from the West Bank is viewed. You can dispute the narrative but it s there. So Palestinians must deal with it. Their thirst for sovereignty is matched only in intensity by Israel s insistence on security. Here lies the hinge of peace. In reality the Jewish state opening gambit is an attempt to settle the Palestinian refugee issue ahead of discussion of other final-status questions like borders. That can t work. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, has said a peace accord would settle all historical demands code for refugees and enough for now.
Netanyahu stands at Israel s new political center, which is to the right of where it was five years ago. An iron-clad...
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15 Oct 2010

Palestinians Netanyahu harming chance for peace by approving East Jerusalem construction

Senior Palestinian Authority officials on Friday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to foil the peace process, after the premier approved tenders for construction of nearly 240 new housing units east of the Green Line. "The Netanyahu government is determined to thwart any chance of resuming direct negotiations," said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, hours after media sources reported that Israel was moving ahead for the first planned construction of this kind in months.
Senior Palestinian Authority officials on Friday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to foil the...
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4 Oct 2010

Netanyahu humiliates Obama again

The Obama administration's attempts at seducing Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, are getting embarrassing. Netanyahu has made it very clear he is not interested. According to Ha'aretz, the latest (and most cringe-worthy) moment in the saga came this week when Dennis Ross, the president's top adviser on Israel-Palestinian issues, convinced Obama that Israel would only agree to an extension of the settlements freeze if Obama would "come off as friendlier" to Bibi. So Ross and his aides (working with the Israelis) drafted a letter to Netanyahu in which the US would give Israel everything it could possibly want in exchange for a two-month freeze.
The Obama administration's attempts at seducing Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, are getting...
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2 Oct 2010

Netanyahu pleads to save talks as Palestinians threaten walkout

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late on Saturday urged the Palestinians not to quit peace talks as negotiations hit a crisis point over Israel's settlement construction in the West Bank. Earlier in the day, a senior Palestinian official said talks could not continue unless Israel renewed a 10-month construction freeze that expired last week. In response, Netanyahu accused the Palestinians of violating the spirit of negotiations, which began in Washington a month ago, by imposing preconditions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late on Saturday urged the Palestinians not to quit peace talks as negotiations hit a...
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21 Aug 2010

Netanyahu has won, for now

Netanyahu's big achievement of the past few months has been his ability to re-direct American pressure: After more than a year of President Barack Obama leveraging heavy pressure on Netanyahu, the U.S. president has begun to apply pressure on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to submit to direct peace talks.
Netanyahu's big achievement of the past few months has been his ability to re-direct American pressure: After more than...
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11 Aug 2010

President Abbas and Peace Talks

Making peace between Israelis and Palestinians is somewhat like solving a Rubik s Cube. You get one colored square lined up but the next one just won t fall into place. So it is now. After three months of American-mediated proximity talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has agreed to direct negotiations on a two-state solution; the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is stubbornly resisting. It is time for him to talk.
Making peace between Israelis and Palestinians is somewhat like solving a Rubik s Cube. You get one colored square lined...
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22 Jul 2010

In Order Not to be Fooled by Netanyahu

The Israeli writer Gideon Levy described Benjamin Netanyahu as a huckster and con-artist in his article [Tricky Bibi] that was published in the Haaretz newspaper on 15 July 2010.
The Israeli writer Gideon Levy described Benjamin Netanyahu as a huckster and con-artist in his article [Tricky Bibi]...
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20 Jul 2010

Netanyahu: I deceived US to destroy Oslo accords

Netenyahu, seated on a sofa in the house, tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords, the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process.
Netenyahu, seated on a sofa in the house, tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill Clinton,...
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6 Jun 2010

Israeli PM defends aid ship attack

Israel's prime minister has claimed that a group of activists intent on violence secretly boarded the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, avoiding security checks, and attacked Israeli troops during last week's deadly raid. Binyamin Netanyahu made the accusations during a cabinet meeting on Sunday but provided no evidence to back them up.
Israel's prime minister has claimed that a group of activists intent on violence secretly boarded the Turkish ship Mavi...
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3 Jun 2010

Netanyahu was right

Netanyahu said the whole world is against us. Wasn't he right? He also said we live under an existential threat. Isn't it beginning to look like that? Give it another minute and Turkey will be at war with us too. Netanyahu said there's no chance of reaching an agreement with the Arabs. Wasn't that spot on? Our prime minister, who saw danger lurking in every alleyway and enemies waiting around every corner, who has always taught that there is no hope, who has drummed into us that we shall forever live by the sword (just as his father the historian taught him ), knew what he was talking about.
Netanyahu said the whole world is against us. Wasn't he right? He also said we live under an existential threat. Isn't...
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2 Jun 2010

Netanyahu World hypocritical for condemning Gaza flotilla raid

"Once again, Israel faces hypocrisy and a biased rush to judgment," Netanyahu said of his international critics, as he defended the actions of Israeli marines who, he said, fired in self-defense after boarding Turkish cruise liner Mavi Marmara
"Once again, Israel faces hypocrisy and a biased rush to judgment," Netanyahu said of his international critics, as he...
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19 Apr 2010

Netanyahu Israeli construction in East Jerusalem is justified

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday that Israel would not accept Palestinian demands that it stop building settlements in East Jerusalem. Appearing in an interview broadcast Monday on ABC's Good Morning America, Netanyahu called the Palestinian demand that Israel stop building in settlements "unacceptable" and said this long-standing Israeli government position is not his alone, but rather dates to governments led by Golda Meir, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday that Israel would not accept Palestinian demands that it stop building...
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19 Mar 2010

Assad Mideast peace ‘impossible’ with Netanyahu

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that peace with Israel was "impossible" as the government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not a real partner for talks, French news agency AFP reported.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that peace with Israel was "impossible" as the government headed by Prime...
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16 Mar 2010

The big white elephant in US-Israeli ties

After a year of wrangling and arms-twisting, the Palestinians finally agreed to four months of so called "proximity talks" in order to test Netanyahu's intentions. And the result: humiliation. The Israeli announcement of new settlement expansion in East Jerusalem on the eve of the talks was as humiliating to the Palestinian president as it was rude to Joe Biden, the US vice-president, who was visiting the country.
After a year of wrangling and arms-twisting, the Palestinians finally agreed to four months of so called "proximity...
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14 Mar 2010

Netanyahu Offers an Apology, but No Shift in Settlement Policy

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told his cabinet on Sunday that the ill-timed announcement of new housing plans for a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem during a visit here by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last week had been "regrettable" and "hurtful."
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told his cabinet on Sunday that the ill-timed announcement of...
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