All Entries Tagged With: "Binyamin Netanyahu"

The Day In Israel: Sun Nov 1st, 2009

In light of recent Lebanese accusations that Israel is spying on Lebanon, the question is whether this is the case.
The answer seems to be hell yeah.
Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) confirmed on Saturday that Israel was operating intelligence-gathering networks within Lebanon.
Speaking at an event in Be’er Sheva, Ya’alon said that “the moment Hezbollah renewed [...]

The Day In Israel: Fri Oct 30th, 2009

Ha’aretz reports that the Holocaust-denying leader of the PA who has not ruled out “resistance” against Israel is allegedly deeply suspicious of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and is losing faith in his intentions to reach a peace agreement.
Ok, I’m paraphrasing but you hopefully get my point.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
1:26PM: Lebanon’s ambassador to [...]

The Day In Israel: Thurs Oct 29th, 2009

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev, has warned that the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead will not go away.
The Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead will not go away even if Israel launches an independent inquiry into the campaign, UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said Wednesday.
“There are no legal questions here – and we [...]

The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 26th, 2009

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have decided to appoint a small team to review Israel’s course of action on the Goldstone report, and make recommendations on what should be done in the diplomatic, legal and public relations planes.
The prime minister said during the meeting that the establishment of an investigation [...]

The Day In Israel: Sun Oct 25th, 2009

The US Congress is expected to vote in favor on a bipartisan bill calling on US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to categorically negate the UN’s Goldstone Report.
Meanwhile, here in Israel, the cabinet had a heated discussion on whether Israel will set up a commission of inquiry on the Goldstone report’s [...]

The Day In Israel: Tues Oct 20th, 2009

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has pledged that Israel will ensure the Goldstone report is vetoed at the United Nations General Assembly.
“It’s going to the UN,” the premier told lawmakers from his Likud party. “We’ll make sure it gets vetoed.”
He sounds confident. The question is: should he be?
Senior diplomats in New York, meanwhile, said the [...]

The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 19th, 2009

IDF sources responded to reports of Hizbullah finding Israeli “spying devices” by saying the incident was staged in an attempt to divert attention from the explosion of a weapons cache in southern Lebanon last week.
Quite frankly, this is a real possibility, given Hizbullah’s love of the stage. Plus they seem to have had trouble getting [...]

The Day In Israel: Mon Oct 12th, 2009

My friend Richard Landes has just launched a new website : Understanding the Goldstone Report.
Those of us who have constructed Understanding the Goldstone Report, have been following the claims under contention since the events themselves almost a year ago, and have read the report in detail.  We offer a wide range of analysis, from careful [...]

The Day In Israel: Sun Oct 4th, 2009

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According to the British Times, when Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently did his best David Copperfield impersonation and briefly “disappeared” – in what turned out to be a (not so) secret trip to Russia – he gave the [...]

The Day In Israel: Fri Oct 2nd, 2009

The PA has dropped its plans to present a draft resolution condemning Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead to the Human Rights Council for a vote in Geneva today, in effect deferring its adoption of the Goldstone Report. The decision seems to be the result of pressure of the Obama administration kind.
The source added that [...]