Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to end the negotiations with Israel unless it freezes construction in Judea and Samaria. Abbas’s threats came during his meeting on Monday with Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Galon. “I will put the keys on the table and turn to international organizations,” he declared during that meeting. “The […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu landed in the United States early Monday. Netanyahu is set to meet with President Barack Obama later Monday, in a meeting that some commentators said could be the “toughest” the two have ever had. Speaking on Israel Radio, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, who is in the U.S., said that the Prime […]
Officials close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were satisfied on Wednesday evening that Netanyahu’s ultimatum to Economy Minister Naftali Bennett had worked. The officials made clear that the letter dismissing Bennett was ready and would have been delivered on Sunday had Bennett not apologized for his remarks against Netanyahu. Those same officials said that the […]
by Daniel Pipes July 9, 2013 updated Jan 4, 2014 In a column that appeared four days ago, “Is Netanyahu Turning Left?” I relied on David Weisberg’s analysis of this topic and drew some conclusions about it (principally that this is a matter of the prime minister’s ego). Here follow opinions of other informed observers, […]
by Daniel Pipes January 9, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Despite all that’s going on the Middle East – the Iranian nuclear buildup, the violence in Iraq, the shaking of Erdo?an’s rule in Turkey, civil war in Syria, Egypt and Yemen in melt-down mode, Libya unraveling, Tunisia in political crisis – U.S. […]
(CNSNews.com) – Back channel, bilateral talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in 2012-13 took place despite a pledge by Vice President Joe Biden last February that the administration would not hold such talks in secret. Hours after multilateral “P5+1” talks on Iran’s nuclear program delivered an agreement in Geneva last November, the Associated Press reported […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proposed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas the “return” of 80, 000 Palestinian “refugees” to Israel, a well-informed Palestinian Authority (PA) official told Chinese news service Xinhua on Monday. The senior official of said on condition of anonymity that Kerry’s proposal on the “return of Palestinian refugees” was part […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held Lebanon responsible for the rocket fire on northern Israel Sunday, and called on the Lebanese government to stop a “double war crime” against civilians – in Israel and on its own soil. “We hold the Lebanese government responsible for firing that is carried out from within its territory,” Netanyahu stated, […]
Republican Senator John McCain, who is currently on a visit to Israel, said on Friday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has “serious, serious concerns” about Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for a framework for peace with the Palestinian Authority. McCain is in Israel along with Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Lindsey Graham […]
The White House refused on Friday to respond in detail to reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former Defense Minister Ehud Barak and current Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Leaked documents by Edward Snowden which were exposed by various news outlets show that spies monitored the email […]
