Israel Elections

Bibi Unveils Unity Government

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN and DAN PERRY | Posted 05.09.2012

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JERUSALEM — Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: pe...

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Avigdor Lieberman Likely To Be Israel's Next Foreign Minister

Telegraph | Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv | Posted 05.25.2011

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Avigdor Lieberman, the head of a provocative nationalist Israeli party, is on course to become the country's next foreign minister in a move likely to...

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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu Will Form New Government: Peres

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join a unity government _ a tricky alliance that would let the hawkish ...

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Israel President Peres To Decide On Governing Coalition

Al Jezeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, is set to begin work on deciding who will become the country's next prime minister and lead a governing coalition...

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Likud-led Coalition Government Gaining Support In Israel

Jerusalem Post | By GIL HOFFMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Likud and Kadima will be able to form a government together under the leadership of Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu, on the basis of equality be...

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Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Israel's new coalition government will be led by Kadima's Tzipi Livni or Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. Tzipi Livni is the foreign minister of Israel. ...

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Benjamin Netanyahu, one of Israel's most controversial political figures, is favored to win the election for prime minister over Tzipi Livni. Netany...

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Life of an Israeli Government: Nasty, Brutish and Short

Natan Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Israel's inability to stay out of the news for long is due not merely to hawkish administrations or a near-impossible region. The lack of strategic leadership is also the product of a broken political system.

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Israel's Election Day: Not a Change We Can Believe In

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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All three of Israel's candidates for Prime Minister belong to an era that should be receding behind us, not popping up in our ballot boxes again and again.

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Give Us Netanyahu. Please.

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Give us Netanyahu. Please. His re-ascension will help Americans realize that the false choice approach the Bush administration had been taking in Israel-Palestine affairs was flawed.

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Avigdor Lieberman, Hard Man Of The Right, Is Israel's Kingmaker In Waiting

The Independent | By Donald Macintyre in Umm el Fahm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician campaigning on a platform that Israeli Arabs should pledge loyalty to the state or lose their right to vot...

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Israel Is About to Make a Misjudgement as Disastrous as Gaza

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a few days, it looks likely to re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister once again. This is a man calling for the violent re-occupation of Gaza to "liquidate" its elected government.

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Israel Election: What Does It Mean to You?

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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Israelis head to the polls on February 10th to vote in a new government. As the crisis in Gaza demonstrates, Israeli politics affect the world. The ou...

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Another Israeli Election Down to the Wire

David Makovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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On February 10, Israelis will go to the polls to choose a new government, and the election campaigning -- curtailed by Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip -- has resumed in earnest.

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Israel Rules Out Hamas Contacts, Threatens Force

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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HERZLIYA, Israel — Israel's foreign minister threatened Monday to keep hitting Hamas as long as it attacks Israel, ruling out negotiations with ...

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Israeli Election: Netanyahu Says Iran Nukes Trumps Global Economy

AP | JOHN DANISZEWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Israeli election front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu told a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that preventing Ira...

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Obama Immediately Gets Working On Gaza

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Before attending an official prayer service this morning, President Barack Obama put in a bit of work, his communications office let it be known. And ...

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Israel's High Court Revokes Election Ban On Arab Parties

Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

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The High Court of Justice on Wednesday revoked a government decision to exclude Israeli-Arab parties from contenting in the national elections next mo...

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