Binyamin Netanyahu

Avigdor Lieberman Grilled By Police On Corruption Allegations, Again

Haaretz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World


Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on Friday for the second time since being sworn into his position earlier this week. Pol...

Uzi Arad, Netanyahu Aide, Visa In Question, Posing Early 'Test Of Wills' For New Governments

Inter Press Service | Stephen Green | Posted 05.03.2009 | World


WASHINGTON, Apr 2 (IPS) - The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led governme...

Netanyahu Capitol Hill Allies Prepared To 'Run Interference' On Obama

The Jewish Week | Posted 05.03.2009 | World


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sworn in on Tuesday as head of a cobbled-together coalition that has produced jitters in Washington, is an old hand...

West Bank Ax Attack Kills Israeli Child, Poses Test For New PM

AP | SEBASTIAN SCHEINER | Posted 05.03.2009 | World


BAT AYIN, West Bank — A Palestinian killed an Israeli teenager with a pickax and seriously injured a 7-year-old boy in a rampage through this We...

Benjamin Netanyahu: A Man Shaped By His Family

GlobalPost | C.M. Sennott | Posted 05.02.2009 | World


In the land of the biblical patriarchs, the stories of fathers and sons matter. And the story of the Netanyahu family is something as ancient as Le...

Avigdor Lieberman: We're Not Bound By Annapolis Peace Talks

Haaretz | Posted 05.02.2009 | World


New foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that Israel was not bound by commitments it made at a U.S.-sponsored conference to pursue cre...

Sy Hersh: Syria Still Wants Peace With Israel, Despite Gaza Operation

The New Yorker | Seymour M. Hersh | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


When the Israelis' controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks betw...

Netanyahu To Obama: Stop Iran, Or I Will

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


In an exclusive interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Tuesday, just before he was sworn in as Israel's new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...

Netanyahu Pledges Support For Peace Effort: Will Do All Within His Power

Jerusalem Post | Posted 04.30.2009 | World


Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday afternoon commended his soon-to-be predecessor Ehud Olmert for his peace efforts and said the Li...

Netanyahu Vows To Resume Peace Talks With Palestinians

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 04.25.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his government will be a "partner for peace with the Palestinians," the la...

Israel: Barak, Netanyahu Agreement Emerges Over Coalition Government

Jerusalem Post | GIL HOFFMAN and JPOST STAFF | Posted 04.24.2009 | World


Defense Minister and Labor Chairman Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu met early Tuesday morning and came to an agreement on a...

Shas Joins Netanyahu's Coalition

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 04.23.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought a nationalist religious party into what is shaping up to be a narrow, hawkish coa...

Netanyahu Given 14-Day Extension To Form Israeli Government

Haaretz | Posted 04.20.2009 | World


President Shimon Peres on Friday accorded Prime Minister-designate a 14-day extension to form a government. ...

Iran's Anti-Israel Rhetoric Aimed at Arab Opinion

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World


WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) - After Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in October 2005 for an end to the state of Israel, Israeli leaders bega...

Understanding Syrian Rapprochement: Optimists Versus Cynics

Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.06.2009 | World


Stuart Whatley

Underlying the prospect for renewed diplomacy with Damascus is the universally accepted possibility that Assad will merely feign peace efforts without ever following through -- for which he, and his father before him, are notorious.

Israel President Peres To Decide On Governing Coalition

Al Jezeera | Posted 03.21.2009 | World


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...

Likud-led Coalition Government Gaining Support In Israel

Jerusalem Post | By GIL HOFFMAN | Posted 03.15.2009 | World


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...

Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.14.2009 | World


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. ...

Israel's Election: HuffPost Contributors Have Their Say

Huffington Post | HuffPost Contributors | Posted 03.12.2009 | World


Israelis head to the polls tomorrow, February 10, to vote in a new government. Huffington Post contributors from Israel to Ramallah to DC have shared ...

Life of an Israeli Government: Nasty, Brutish and Short

Natan Sachs | Posted 03.12.2009 | World


Natan Sachs

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.

Another Israeli Election Down to the Wire

David Makovsky | Posted 03.07.2009 | World


David Makovsky

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.

Israeli Election: George Mitchell Will Return To Israel After February Election

Haaretz | Posted 03.02.2009 | World


United States Mideast envoy George Mitchell on Friday told Likud Chair Benjamin Netanyahu he plans to return to Israel shortly after February's genera...

Gaza War Strengthens Israeli Hard-Liners

Nytimes.com | ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 02.27.2009 | World


JERUSALEM -- With two weeks to go before the Israeli elections, the politicians who seem to have benefited the most from the military offensive agains...

Netanyahu Says He Would Allow Settlement Expansion In West Bank

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 02.27.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — The front-runner in Israel's election said in an interview published Monday that he would let Jewish settlements expand in the West ...

Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.06.2009 | World


Robert Scheer

Why is it that there is such widespread acceptance, beginning with the apologetic arguments of George Bush, that whatever Israel does is always justified as necessary to the survival of the Jewish state?