Posts Tagged ‘Netanyahu’
Americans funding expanding Israeli occupation (“settlements”)
Der Spiegel | By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Christoph Schult | 23 July 2010 US Cash for Israeli Settlements Making a Mockery of the Moratorium Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlers are receiving [...]
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
The National (UAE) | By Jonathan Cook | 18 July 2010 English transcript: Bibi: ... The Arabs are currently focusing on a war of terror and they think it will break us. The main thing, first of all, is to hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to [...]
“This guy doesn’t get it, does he?” — Netanyahu, on Obama’s first criticism of Israel
The Independent | By Robert Fisk | 17 July 2010 They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason It is the season of grovelling. Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the [...]
Obama Mends fences with Netanyahu
People's Daily | By Wen Xian in U.S. | 14 July 2010 A change and not a change in U.S. Middle East policy U.S. President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 6, or last Tuesday, and they met at the same Oval office on March 23. The Obama administration's treatment of Netanyahu at the first [...]
Barack in Israel, Hussein in the Muslim World
Asharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 11 July 2010 Hussein? As soon as US President Obama addressed the Israelis in a televised interview with one of the local television stations, the shock hit our region. This is what became clear from the majority of the Arab media coverage, especially after Obama told the Israelis that he understands [...]
Does Israel Make Us Safer?
The Daily Beast | By Thaddeus Russell | 4 July 2010 Israel just announced it has loosened Gaza blockade rules to allow in consumer goods and Turkey is demanding an apology for the flotilla raid. As Obama and Netanyahu await tomorrow's meeting, historian Thaddeus Russell argues that it's time to ask if the country makes Americans safer—even [...]
One Holocaust Justifies Another
Haaretz | By Gideon Levy | 28 January 2010 Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at [...]
No gaffe: Clinton’s remarks make public a secret US-Israel understanding
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's ostensibly contradictory statement during her recent Middle East visit — declaring in Israel that "There has never been a pre-condition . It's always been an issue within the negotiations" while stating several days later during a visit to Morocco that there was no change in the American policy — is [...]
Israel Army Radio on Netanyahu-Obama Meeting
Israel Army Radio System | 11 November 2009 Google Translation (Edited) Why Americans hid the Netanyahu-Obama meeting? Netanyahu's office was surprised by the American demand to conceal his meeting yesterday with President Obama in Washington. Looking back on their two previous meetings, it seems that Netanyahu was running to the media [...]
What is Wrong with a “Jewish” State
Ha'aretz | Sun., July 12, 2009 This is what is wrong with a Jewish state By Bradley Burston JAFFA - Why was this Fourth of July different from all other independence days? What the world has seen over the past 12 months is a re-definition of patriotism. It derives from a central lesson of the Obama campaign, the Obama victory, and, so [...]
