Benjamin Netanyahu Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli power couple links politics with the press
He's a powerful Cabinet minister and a potential heir to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She's an influential anchor for Israel's state-run TV channel who led its recent election night coverage. Together they have emerged as the country's most high-profile power couple, with every step of their budding romance chronicled by ...
Netanyahu cool to Arab initiative
Israel's prime minister on Wednesday gave a cool reception to a renewed peace offer from the Arab world, in a fresh sign of trouble for U.S. efforts to restart Mideast peace talks. With Secretary of State John Kerry expected to return to the region next week as part of his ...
Obama's statements on Syria and chemical weapons
A look at how President Barack Obama's remarks about the Syrian civil war have evolved as evidence suggesting chemical weapons use by President Bashar Assad's government has emerged: ___ Aug. 20, 2012 "We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region, that that's a red line ...
Russia's S-300 missile causes hype, controversy
It's the most widely talked about weapon in the news these days, and one of the most elusive. The question of whether or not Russia has supplied the S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria has drawn a flow of opaque statements from senior officials in Russia, the United States, ...
Officials: Kerry returning to Mideast next week
Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East next week in another bid to revitalize peace hopes, officials said Monday, with the contours of a package possibly emerging to lure Israel and the Palestinians back into direct negotiations. It will be Kerry's fifth trip to the Jewish ...
Israel to send African migrants to third country
Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, according to a court document obtained Monday, a plan that has elicited criticism over its potential harm to the migrants. The plan, if implemented, is an attempt to address one of Israel's more pressing issues: ...
Syria's Assad 'confident in victory' in civil war
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is "confident in victory" in his country's civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any future Israeli airstrike on his territory. Assad also told the Lebanese TV station Al-Manar that Russia has fulfilled some of ...
Palestinian leader under pressure to restart talks
The Palestinian president has told advisers that as the U.S. tries to restart Mideast peace talks, he is under intense international pressure to return to negotiations with Israel and drop demands for a Jewish settlement freeze in the West Bank, officials said Wednesday. In a closed meeting, Mahmoud Abbas lamented ...
Israel warns Russia against giving Syria missiles
Israel's defense chief said Tuesday a Russian plan to supply sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Syria was a "threat" and signaled that Israel is prepared to use force to stop the delivery. The warning by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon ratcheted up tensions with Moscow over the planned sale of S-300 air-defense ...
Military exemptions threaten Israeli coalition
The leader of Israel's second largest party warned Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition could collapse if it fails to reform the military draft system and end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students. Finance Minister Yair Lapid made the threat after a committee meeting tasked with changing the ...
AP Interview: Israel deputy FM proud to be settler
Zeev Elkin has faced a wave of criticism since he was made the de facto chief of Israel's Foreign Ministry two months ago: He isn't prepared for compromise with the Palestinians. He doesn't speak English well enough. He is a West Bank settler. But Israel's deputy foreign minister, who is ...
Israel's president calls for return to peace talks
Israel's president on Sunday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to overcome differences and resume peace negotiations, saying the sides could not afford "to lose this opportunity." President Shimon Peres issued his call ahead of a gathering of Mideast leaders on the sidelines of a conference hosted by the Geneva-based World ...
Kerry: $4B Palestinian economic plan could work
Secretary of State John Kerry declared Sunday he believes a potential $4 billion plan is emerging that could expand the Palestinian economy by up to 50 percent in the next three years. It could also cut unemployment by almost two-thirds, and average wages could jump 40 percent, he said. But ...
Sunday, June 2
Today is Sunday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2013. There are 212 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 637 - Arab Muslim army vanquishes Persians at battle of Al-Qadisiyya, opening Persia to Arab conquest. 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte issues a liberal constitution in France. ...
Jordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on conflict
Jordan's King Abdullah II said Saturday extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. "Good faith talks must get going," Abdullah told the opening of a two-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Economic Forum on the shores of the Dead Sea, the lowest point ...
Kerry blasts Iranian election maneuvering
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry harshly criticized Iranian authorities on Friday for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates, suggesting that Tehran is standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy. Among those disqualified earlier this week by Iran's Guardian Council was former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The purge was seen ...
Kerry's focus on peace talks, not settlements
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. Explaining part of the strategy ...
Israel says Iran unaffected by world pressure
Israel's prime minister says a new report by the U.N. atomic agency shows that international pressure is having no effect on halting Iran's suspect nuclear program. In a confidential report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said this week that Iran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building ...
US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart
The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's two-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. As they met in Jerusalem, Kerry praised Israeli ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
With warnings about continued threats to US, Obama seeks to open secretive terror policies WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of drones against terror suspects, make good on a pledge to close the controversial ...
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