Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday on her centrist Kadima party joining a broad-based coalition. "The meeting started at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem at around 7 pm (1700 GMT)," an official said. Livni's party is the largest in parliament with 28 of its 120 seats against 27 for Netanyahu's right-wing Likud. But Israeli news reports said he was still offering just two to four ministries without portfolio in an... Read Full Story
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again asked moderate opposition leader Tzipi Livni to join his government. The Haaretz newspaper reports Friday that if Livni refuses, Netanyahu will try to fragment her Kadima Party and absorb some of its lawmakers into his Likud Party. Livni says she won't be part of a maneuver to split Kadima. But she says if Netanyahu's offer is serious, then she wants to explore how far he is willing to go in negotiations with the Palestinians. Livni refused to join... Read Full Story
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed an Egyptian-hosted summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a possible way to resume stalled peace talks, Israeli officials said on Thursday... Read Full Story
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel reduced spending on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank during 2009, according to official figures which show just four building starts funded in the third quarter. The Central Bureau of Statistics data was published this week, shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from his main ally, the United States, to halt all settlement activity, announced a 10-month freeze on new buildings. About half a million Israelis live in... Read Full Story
The impasse on negotiations between Israel and Palestinians continues and attempts by the Egyptian government to jump start talks has failed. The bottom line is the Israel government wants to continue expanding settlements on the West Bank even as it accepts a “moratorium” on future settlements. Of course, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not put it so bluntly since he believes there IS a moratorium on housing, but it does not include Jerusalem because in his view the eastern section... Read Full Story
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Monday criticized Israeli plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank, in unusually explicit terms a week before the two countries' leaders meet in Berlin. The comments, made by Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, coincide with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's first trip to Israel and are in response to Israel's approval last week of plans to build 900 new homes near Jerusalem. Germany has traditionally been softer than many other nations... Read Full Story
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed an Egyptian-hosted summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a possible way to resume stalled peace talks, Israeli officials said on Thursday. Read Full Story
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured a naval vessel on Tuesday, using the backdrop of his country's military power to warn of the threat posed by the nuclear ambitions of arch-foe Iran. "The threat that Iran poses is very grave for the state of Israel, for peace in the Middle East and the whole world," Netanyahu said aboard the INS Eilat, a missile ship used recently to intercept a weapons-laden cargo vessel Israel said was ferrying arms from Iran to the Lebanese Hezbollah... Read Full Story
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq." - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University, April 2008
An amazingly callous Netanyahu told the New York Times on 9-11 (when early estimates were about 10,000 dead) that the terror attacks were "very good" for U.S.-Israeli relations. His subsequent comments about how Israel was benefiting from 9-11 were made in Hebrew at Bar-Ilan... Read Full Story
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Netanyahu to Egypt to discuss peace, prisoner swapWashington PostAP JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Egypt to discuss US-backed efforts to relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians. He is also expected to discuss Tuesday negotiations to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for …Israeli Plan for East Jerusalem Homes Spurs Anger [...] Read Full Story
