All Journal Posts Tagged 'netanyahu' (90)

Jerusalem is United: The Swedish Government Sucks

Sweden's attempts to insert language into an EU resolution on the Middle East that would recognize east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state harms European efforts to play a significant part in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued Tuesday morning. The statement followed a Haaretz report that the Swedes were pushing a resolution that will be discussed at a monthly meeting of EU ministers… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on December 1, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Netanyahu's cabinet approves 10-month settlement freeze

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following statement on the Cabinet Decision to suspend new construction in Judea and Samaria "Today, my cabinet authorized a policy of restraint regarding settlements which will include a suspension of new permits and new construction in Judea and Samaria for a period of ten months." Today, my cabinet authorized a policy of restraint regarding settlements which will include a suspension of new permits and new construction in Jude… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 26, 2009 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

Netanyahu: Unilateral moves by PA will be reciprocated

"There is no substitute for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and any unilateral attempts outside that framework will unravel the existing agreements between us and could entail unilateral steps by Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a high level gathering of Israeli and American policy makers at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem on Sunday night. Netanyahu's statement came a day after chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat announced that th… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 15, 2009 at 11:09pm — 5 Comments

Report: Meeting of Bibi and Obama was all about Iran

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama focused excusively on Iran when they met in Washington Monday, and so did Netanyahu and French president Nicolas Sarkozy when they met in Paris on Wednesday. Iran also was the subject for the meeting between defense minster Ehud Barak and US defense secretary Robert Gates Monday, DebkaFile reports. DEBKAfile's Washington sources report that… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 13, 2009 at 11:56am — 3 Comments

Obama's wit: "We'll trade our Lieberman for yours"

Ben Smith of Politico reports: A source at the White House for the president's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reports that Obama ended the event with a modest proposal for the domestic politics of both men. At the meeting's conclusion, the two leaders walked out to the adjoining room where the Israeli and American delegatio… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

US officials bash Bibi; Bibi's boys boast of beer with Barack

Senior Israel officials on Wednesday adamantly rejected media speculation about tension between Jerusalem and Washington. "The reception [of Netanyahu in the White House] was cordial and friendly in many aspects, and even included rolling-up sleeves and cracking open beer bottles when necessary, in line with the tradition of coordination between senior Israeli and US officials," National Security Adviser Uzi Arad told Israel Radio from Paris, the latest stop on PM Benjamin… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Israeli leaders hint meeting with Obama was really important

Although Monday night's talks between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama remain shrouded in secrecy, the Israeli prime minister broadly hinted that the "importance of the visit will become clear in the future." He discounted reports of tension with the American President: "Reports about a bad atmosphere are garbage," he said. "To put it mildly, they are grossly inaccurate and don't reflect the truth." On the contrary, Netanyahu insisted, the atmosphere "was very open and v… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 11, 2009 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Media Blackout Follows Obama-Netanyahu Meeting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a one hundred minute meeting with US President Barack Obama Monday night which addressed the Middle East peace process, Iran and Israeli security. About half of the meeting was one-on-one and half of which included four members of staff on each side. Barak, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, National Security Council head Uzi Arad and PMO adviser Yitzhak Molcho joined Netanyahu for the first half, while Obama and Netanyahu met privately… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 10, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Obama gives Netanyahu crawlspace access to Oval Office

Obama prepares for Netanyahu visit to White House
After weeks of hesitation and foot-dragging the White House finally and grudgingly announced that there would be a meeting between Barack Hussein Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the meeting was pointedly described as "brief" and scheduled after normal working hours, at 7pm (2am Isra… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 9, 2009 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Obama cancels GA speech, keeps Netanyahu dangling

Class act: Obama takes pleasure in humiliating the Prime Minister of Israel.
US President Barack Hussein Obama has canceled his scheduled appearance Tuesday before the Genera Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington to attend a memorial service for victims of the mass shooting carried out in Fort Hood, Texas, by a US Army officer of Muslim faith and Palestini… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 9, 2009 at 12:30am — 3 Comments

US ready to give up on direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to arrive in Israel on Saturday night for her first official visit since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in. Although Clinton comes with the stated goal of resuming talks between Israelis and Palestinians, there are indications that the Americans are getting ready to give up on that hope. In light of the wide as ever gaps between the Palestinians and the Israelis, voices are growing within the Oba… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 28, 2009 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

Constable Abbas throws a fit, vows to quit

Mahmoud Abbas, impotent "President" of the West Bank with the approximate power of a traffic cop, threw a tantrum and warned that he would resign unless US President Barack Hussein Obama would get tough on the Israelis. Channel 10 revealed the threat to resign on its Monday night newscast. In the past few days, Abbas has sent irate messages to the White House, vowing to step down and saying he would not participate in the next Palestinian elections, no matter when they are… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 26, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Netanyahu now says Israel may probe Gaza war itself

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mean to imply that an independent investigation into IDF Operation Cast Lead was necessary to refute the Goldstone Commission's accusations, according to a statement released on Saturday by the Prime Minister's Office. Israel routinely conducted such probes. 24 out of the 36 claims presented against the IDF by the Goldstone Commission have already been internally investigated, said the statement. Netanyahu told the Washington Post… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 24, 2009 at 8:03pm — No Comments

UN HRC adopts Goldstone report but Western states opposed or abstained

The Kangaroo Court called the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to adopted the Goldstone Report, riding on the votes of 25 of the body's 49 members, most of them repressive non-democracies. Six, including the United States, voted against while 16 others either abstained or did not vote. The Report, dismissed as a biased farce by Israel, accused Israel of "war crimes" and possible "crimes against humanity" while downplaying offenses by Hamas. The US, Holland, Italy,… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 17, 2009 at 1:00am — 5 Comments

Obama to share Nobel Peace Prize with his teleprompter

President Barack Hussein Obama has received a Peace Prize from the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway. It will entitle him to more than a million dollars to use as he pleases. He joins Yasser Arafat -- who won the award in 1994 together with Yitzhak Rabin and, as an afterthought, Shimon Peres -- as a winner of the prestigious award. He will need to share the award with his teleprompter. Most Israeli leaders suppressed their smirks and said really nice things, joining other wo… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 9, 2009 at 8:00pm — 9 Comments

Fatah demands settlement freeze before talks

The Palestinian Fatah party has told West Bank constable Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the movement, that he better not resume peace talks unless and until Israel totally freezes home building for Jews in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, a senior Fatah member said Wednesday. Fatah believes that only Arabs should be allowed to build homes there. Fatah's position is designed to help Abbas resist American pressure to begin negotiations with Israel, even though Israeli… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 30, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Is Obama Ready To Speak His Mind?

President Obama’s address at the United Nations on 23 September has given some indication that he would soon be releasing his own plan for achieving the creation of a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan - the so called “two state solution - an outcome that has avoided the best efforts of previous American Presidents for the last sixteen years. In his carefully crafted address he made the following statement: “The time has come to re-launch negotiations - without preconditions -… Continue

Added by david singer on September 27, 2009 at 12:15am — No Comments

Netanyahu gives "speech for the ages"

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventin… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 25, 2009 at 9:24am — 2 Comments

Obama expects Netanyahu to accept Olmert's firesale

In his meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, US President Barack Hussein Obama said that he expects Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept as a starting point the massive concessions offered by his predecessors. There's an historical record of the entire past negotiations and there are principles," he said. "We won't start the neg… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Netanyahu: Israel seeks "peace of recognition and security"

Transcript of an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: A big day today, the President of the United States hosting a summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders right here in New York. Let's get right to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He's joining us. The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, told our Fareed Zakaria the other day that he had an assurance from the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, that Israel has no intention… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 23, 2009 at 12:14pm — No Comments

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