RADAMISTO (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some time ago, Bill "Slots" Bennett said on his radio show that Likud politician Benjamin Netanyahu was one of his friends. Bennett is a neo-con and I suspect he likes Netanyahu ("Bibi") because he's a hawk. Josh Marshall has this description of "Bibi": (It's ironic that Netanyahu , who's got a thin national security resume by Israeli standards, should be seen in that light...
Jerusalem News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Two Likud Party members running for election to the next Israeli Knesset at the weekend voiced their views on controversial issues facing Israel. Land-of-Israel activist Yechiel Leiter - a former director-general of the Ministry of Education and a senior aide to Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon - has reportedly launched a diplomatic plan that would see 50 percent of Samaria and Judea...
The Constitution Club (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
It appears that former prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to once again regain that most perilous pentacle of Israeli politics. The devastating stroke suffered by Aeril Sharon and the disintegration of his political opponents has paved the way for this fiery, articulate, potentially “dangerous” and incredibly interesting personality to once again come to [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... headquarters of Chabad.President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the chief rabbis of Israel and the Indian ambassador attended the service at Kfar Chabad."For several days now, the whole world has had to answer the question of a small child, Moishe, who is asking, 'Where is my mother?' " Peres said in his eulogy. "The world must answer...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
... been no such shift. Polls suggest that Israelis are set to return to power former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud Party. Both Netanyahu and his party outright reject the significant territorial concessions Olmert allegedly supports.Finally, Cohen quotes Olmert as saying "I'd like to know if there's a serious person in the State of Israel who believes...
News Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Ehud Barak, who is now the defense minister; Shimon Peres, currently the Israeli president; and Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud Party. After the funeral, the bodies of the Holtzbergs were buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Another victim from Chabad House, kosher supervisor Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum of New York, was buried there earlier.Separate funerals were held...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | yesterday
... may not be close, however. Elections are due on Feb. 10 and the front-runner is hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes major territorial concessions. The Palestinians, meanwhile, are deeply spit between moderates in the West Bank and Hamas militants ruling the Gaza Strip.Some point out that dire warnings also accompanied Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, yet it was...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... as Kadima leader. After initial polls showed her running neck-and-neck with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Livni has recently dropped far behind him. Her attack on Olmert, who is widely unpopular, may have been an attempt to jump-start her faltering campaign. The double-billing scandal is one of a half-dozen corruption affairs Olmert has had to face during his nearly three...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... Ynet as saying after leaving a meeting he held on the financial crisis with opposition chairman Benjamin Netanyahu and the coalition factions. Olmert said he believed Livni and the Kadima Knesset (parliament) members were taking advantage of the announcement made by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, who said he is considering indicting the premier on the accusations against him in...
