Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu Must Walk Tightrope Between Concessions To Palestinians In Washington While Reassuring Right Wing Supporters Back Home Netanyahu’s Approach: ‘Security Will Bring Peace & Not That Peace Will Bring Security’ IsraCast: Israeli PM To Tell Palestinian Leader Abbas That Extension Of Settlement Freeze Is Part Of Negotiation & Cannot Be Prior Condition
Internal Politics
Israel – Cabinet Clash Over Settlement Freeze
Benyamin Netanyahu President Mahmoud Abbas Two dates loom large on the Middle East calendar – on Sept. 2nd, President Barack Obama is to launch a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace … Read More Israel – Cabinet Clash Over Settlement Freeze
Hezbollah Co-Opts Lebanon’s Army
Lt.Col.(res.) Dov Harari Capt.Ezra Lakia, seriously wounded IDF forces evacuating Southern Lebanon, 2000 Hassan Nasrallah One day after the deadly sniping attack by the Lebanese army that killed one IDF … Read More Hezbollah Co-Opts Lebanon’s Army
Netanyahu & Abbas at Crossroads
Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu & Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas Arm Wrestle Over Direct Talks Likud Cabinet Ministers Warn Netanyahu Not To Extend Ten Month Suspension On Settlement Building That Expires on Sept.26th Israel Hopeful That Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty Will Be Honored By President Hosni Mubarak’s Successor
Netanyahu & Abbas Vying For Obama’s Support
President Mahmoud Abbas (Photo: Amit Shabi) Barack Obama | Benyamin Netanyahu Gilad Shalit Recently Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met President Barack Obama in the White House, on July 6th it … Read More Netanyahu & Abbas Vying For Obama’s Support
Israeli-Palsetinian Talks Within Two Weeks?
Defense Minister Barak:’Hopefully U.S. Envoy George Mitchell Will Launch Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Within Two Weeks’ US State Department Cautions Against Breakthrough During Mitchell’s Current Meetings With Israeli & Palestinian Leaders IsraCast Assessment: U.S. Apparently Ready To Urge Palestinians To Accept Netanyahu Latest Gestures As Basis For Launching Proximity Talks
Middle East ‘March Of Folly’
Barack Obama | Benyamin Netanyahu Avigdor Lieberman (Photo: Amit Shabi) In a leak to the Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, two White House officials have disclosed that President Barack Obama … Read More Middle East ‘March Of Folly’
Obama Imposing Israeli-Palestinian Agreement?
Barack Obama Bibi Netanyahu Ehud Barak (Photo: Amit Shabi) Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has started consultations with six other members of his top level security cabinet on a reply to … Read More Obama Imposing Israeli-Palestinian Agreement?
Israel Seeks Obama Solution
Shimon Peres (Photo: Amit Shabi) Benyamin Netanyahu President Barack Obama has said there is no crisis between the U.S. and Israel and the special relations with the Israel people will … Read More Israel Seeks Obama Solution
Obama Clobbers Netanyahu
U.S. President Barack Obama Steps Up Pressure On Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu After Broadsides From Secretary Clinton, Adviser Axelrod & Spokesman Gibbs, Look For Envoy George Mitchell To Pitch In IsraCast Assessment: Mitchell May Lean On Netanyahu To Accept Some Sort Of Freeze On East Jerusalem Building For Duration Of Proximity Talks With Palestinians