…by Jonas E. Alexis If you think that Benjamin Netanyahu has ceased to amaze and humor you, then think again. Netanyahu should certainly start applying for a stand-up comedy job somewhere on the planet. Someone would hire him because he is the man who is willing to say some of […]
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Israel is currently in a “state of emergency,” in the wake of the alarmingly high number of new coronavirus cases, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said. The country has smashed past the 10,000 active cases mark and the growth continues. Speaking during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu called on […]
The Israeli Air Force has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria in recent years, justifying air and missile attacks by accusing Iran of trying to establish a proxy presence in the Arab Republic. Damascus has denied these claims, and accused Tel Aviv of blatant aggression. Israel will continue its […]
Israeli lawmakers have approved the prime minister’s request for retroactive tax benefits worth about 1 million shekels at a time when the nation is being hit by a crippling economic crisis. Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he was right to ask for a massive tax rebate, but apologised for making […]
Introduction John Bolton’s revenge book hasn’t revealed much that is new. But there is one exception: the story of Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to sabotage Trump’s would-be diplomacy with Tehran. This episode reveals something crucial and until now not fully appreciated: […]
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, interviewed by Press TV John Bolton has leaked the manuscript of his new unapproved book about his experiences in the Trump administration. And of course, the top headlines are that Bolton is confirming all these other reports that Trump is incompetent. And also, I think […]
The former national security advisor’s new tell-all book, suggestively titled ‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir’, is expected to hit stores on Tuesday, with a judge ultimately refusing a Trump administration request to delay publication on national security grounds. US President Donald Trump was prepared to back […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105387/08/1053870811_0:167:2888:1792_1200x675_80_0_0_30c5ca1431527bc4455a3f2f47df7d43.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006181079656037-netanyahu-doubted-kushners-ability-to-draft-workable-middle-east-peace-plan—bolton-memoir/ The leaked excerpts from the memoir of the former national security adviser have drawn a lot of attention over claims that Trump is not fit for the office of the president, as he is, reportedly, incompetent. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107965/17/1079651732_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_c6fa9d3ba26afae81e0db5adf0d12370.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006181079651773-netanyahu-presents-four-west-bank-plans-to-benny-gantz-but-talks-deadlocked–report/ Israeli media earlier reported, citing anonymous sources, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for a pretext to break the coalition agreement with Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Alliance in a bid to call a new election. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
An Israeli unity government was formed in May between two rivals, the Likud party’s Benjamin Netanyahu and the Blue and White party’s Benny Gantz, after months of political struggles and three elections. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for a reason to put his political partnership with Benny Gantz […]
Already strained relations between Israel and Jordan, one of the two Arab nations that maintain official diplomatic ties with the Jewish State, risk deteriorating further amid the looming Israeli take-over of a third of the West Bank. Jordan’s King Abdullah II has turned down attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has stopped easing coronavirus restrictions in Israel after a sharp increase in new Covid-19 cases. “There is a very sharp rise in illness,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “The first thing we’ve decided to do is put the brakes on it. We’ve stopped all the […]
Middle East 16:03 GMT 07.06.2020(updated 16:09 GMT 07.06.2020) Get short URL The Israeli intelligence service chief has recently received high praise from the Netanyahu government over his agency’s clandestine operations to procure medical equipment abroad for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, with the prime minister calling Mossad’s work “extraordinary” […]
[Editor’s note: The move to annexe the West Bank has almost no support within Israel, least of all with the usually militant settler community. This is purely a Trump-Netanyau plan and characteristically, it ignores any and all international law. The timing of this move is also cynically orchestrated to take […]
__________HaaretzNetanyahu Attacks Justice System at Opening of His Corruption Trial Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s first sitting prime minister to face trial on criminal corruption charges on Sunday. He arrived at the Jerusalem District Court for the opening session in the trial flanked by cabinet ministers from his Likud party who […]
Israel will not miss a “historic opportunity” to extend its sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. At a meeting of legislators of his right-wing Likud party on Monday, Netanyahu set land moves in the West Bank as “perhaps the first in importance in […]
__________HaaretzBiden the ‘Mensch’ Fires Annexation Warning Shot Across Bibi’s Bow Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, showed this week how something totally expected can nonetheless seem like a bolt from the blue. Biden’s statements against Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned West Bank annexation accurately reflect the Democratic Party’s position as […]
Israel’s Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday night that he’d managed to form a government sending an official notification to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin. The new Israeli government will be sworn in later today after a series of speeches that will start at 1600 GMT and will include the introduction […]
Sputnik/Moscow: Tel Aviv currently claims over 16,000 confirmed cases of the deadly novel coronavirus in the nation, while the disease has claimed 245 lives. Amid the pandemic, the country closed its borders to all foreigners and imposed a lockdown, but has recently begun to ease the restrictions. Israeli Prime Minister […]
Middle East 20:27 GMT 06.05.2020(updated 20:34 GMT 06.05.2020) Get short URL Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005061079222061-netanyahu-gantz-agree-to-swear-in-new-government-on-13-may/ On Wednesday, the High Court of Justice has unanimously rejected the petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu forming the new government while being under indictment, as well as those against Netanyahu and Gantz reaching a […]