Israeli leaders condemn Iran deal, ‘one of the darkest days in world history’
Netanyahu’s fellow Likud member, Science Minister Danny Danon, said the Iran pact “is like providing a pyromaniac with matches.” The condemnations are not new. Netanyahu has led a tireless campaign against the prospects of a deal, including an address before the U.S. Congress in March to hammer home Israel’s worries over Iran — whose […]
Iran deal historic mistake for the world: Netanyahu
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a nuclear deal concluded between major powers and Iran on Tuesday was “a historic mistake for the world.” “In every area where it was supposed to prevent Iran attaining nuclear arms capability, there were huge compromises,” his office quoted him as saying at the start […]
Lapid Blames Netanyahu for Iran Nuclear Deal
Yesh Atid chairperson Yair Lapid launched a vitriolic attack against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, amid predictions of an Iran nuclear deal being reached later the same day. In an interview with Army Radio, Lapid said, “the deal is indeed terrible and awful. If there is a failure – there is someone responsible for the failure: you […]
Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Hypocrisy’ of flotilla participants only aides Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with Defense Minster Moshe Ya’alon reacted Monday shortly after the Israeli military’s successful early morning interception of the Marianne av Göteborg, which sought to break Israel’s sea blockade of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu and Ya’alon congratulated Israeli security forces for completing the mission without incident. Soon after the mission […]
Israel approves extending fortified fence on its Jordan border
He said the fence would help protect an Israeli airport due to open next year at Timna, 19 km (12 miles) from Eilat, and which has been billed as a wartime alternative should Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport come under rocket attack. “This is an important matter. It is part of our national security,” Netanyahu said. […]
UN to Netanyahu: Translate Your Words into Actions
The United Nations on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to translate into action his commitment to a two-state solution, Reuters reported. During the recent election campaign in Israel, Netanyahu angered several Western leaders when he declared in a series of interviews he would do everything in his power to prevent the establishment of a […]
Elkin Urges French Aliyah after Beheading Attack
Israeli Immigration and Absorption Minister Ze’ev Elkin on Friday urged French Jews to flee to Israel after an Islamist terrorist attacked a factory near Lyon and pinned a severed head to the gates. “I call on the Jews of France – come home! Anti-Semitism is rising, terror is increasing,” Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party who […]
Benjamin Netanyahu: Int’l peace proposals are forced on Israel, push it to indefensible borders
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that the relative quiet that preceded Friday’s terror attack in the West Bank in which 25-year-old Danny Gonen was killed, “shouldn’t fool anyone.” Speaking at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting hours after an additional terror attack in which a Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded a Border […]
Iran deal will foster and fund terrorism, Benjamin Netanyahu tells Jewish Agency meeting
The deal over Iran’s nuclear program currently taking shape in negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the West is a “historic mistake,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Diaspora leaders on Monday during an appeal for world Jewry to raise its voice in protest. Speaking to the heads of national communities as well as the […]
‘Iran nukes will be Israel’s gas chambers’
Rep. Gohmert was the driving force behind the speech given to Congress in March by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who received a remarkable 26 standing ovations while delivering a passionate warning against the Iranian nuclear peril. Gohmert originally had the idea when Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was still House Speaker. He drafted a […]