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Israel PM heads to Berlin as settlement dispute grows
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due in Berlin on Wednesday for talks likely to focus on the growing crisis over settlement plans that could torpedo the viability of a Palestinian state. Ahead of his departure on a trip that will take him briefly to Prague and then on to…
Israel to build 3,000 settlements after Palestinian U.N. recognition
Israel is to build 3,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank after the Palestinians won recognition as a non-member state at the United Nations, an Israeli official told AFP on Friday. Asked if he could confirm a report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided…
Watch live: Clinton and Netanyahu hold news conference
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference to talk about a possible cease-fire with Hamas. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Nov. 20. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Israel ready to strike Iran ‘if necessary’: Netanyahu
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was ready to order a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities “if necessary”, in an interview aired by Channel Two television on Monday. “I am, of course, ready to press the button if necessary,” Netanyahu said in the interview. “I hope that…
Report: Israeli PM ordered strike on Iran in 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in 2010 ordered the army to prepare an attack against Iranian nuclear installations, though the order was later rescinded, Israeli television said Sunday. According to private television Channel 2, the order was not implemented due to opposition from the army…
‘Big Bang’: Right-wing Netanyahu-Lieberman pact polarizes Israeli politics
The rightwing alliance between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his foreign minister has polarised political forces in Israel ahead of next January’s parliamentary election. Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman’s surprise announcement late on Thursday that their respective Likud and Yisrael Beitenu parties would run on a joint ticket was dubbed…
Israel PM vows to continue building in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday pledged to continue unhindered construction in Jerusalem, including in its annexed eastern sector, despite criticism from the European Union. “We are not putting any limitations on building in Jerusalem, it is our capital,” he said at the start of the weekly…
Hezbollah says it sent Iranian-built drone over Israel
BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah boasted Thursday that his Shiite militant group sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, saying the device was built by the Jewish state’s archfoe Iran. Hassan Nasrallah’s acknowledgement of the drone which Israel shot down on October 6 came shortly after…
Netanyahu draws actual red line on cartoon bomb during UN speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu feels so strongly about imposing a “red line” on Iran’s nuclear program that he demonstrated by using a magic marker to draw an actual red line on a bomb diagram during his speech to the United Nations on Thursday. “There’s only one way to peacefully…
Obama brushes off Israeli pressure over Iran
President Barack Obama likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a line in the sand over Iran’s nuclear ambitions as noise he tries to ignore, according to remarks aired Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently urged the United States to establish what he called a “red line” regarding Tehran’s…
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