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Israel, Hamas defiant as US presses for ceasefire

Israel’s bid to crush Hamas’s capabilities and bring the hostages home dominated talks between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the Israeli prime minister said, even as the Palestinian militants vowed no surrender in Gaza...

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Israel, Hamas hold talks

Israel and Hamas held indirect talks in Qatar on Monday, according to a Palestinian official, ahead of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Washington with President Donald Trump, who is pushing for a deal on Gaza...

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Israeli court delays Netanyahu graft trial appearance

An Israeli court on Sunday postponed prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay with the support of US president Donald Trump, in a ruling published by the premier’s party...

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Netanyahu ‘must go’: ex-Israeli PM Bennett

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu must leave office, his predecessor Naftali Bennett has told a televised interview, refusing to say whether he intends to challenge the country’s longest-serving leader in an election...

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Tactical pause or path to wider war

THE Middle East is teetering on the edge of a full-scale regional war after the US military, in coordination with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo on June 21. Iran’s swift retaliation, declaring US positions and citizens in the region as legitimate targets, culminated in an attack on a US...

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How Netanyahu, AIPAC outsourced Israel’s war to Trump

UNLIKE Russia’s quarrel with Kyiv or China’s claim to Taiwan, Washington’s war with Iran is not rooted in a national dispute with the US. It is a project subcontracted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Donald Trump — a president addicted to flattery and drama — puffed by grandiose...

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Stop Netanyahu before he gets us all killed

FOR nearly 30 years, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has driven the Middle East into war and destruction. The man is a powder keg of violence. Throughout all the wars that he has championed, Netanyahu has always dreamed of the big one: to defeat and overthrow the Iranian Government. His long-sought war, just launched, might just get us all killed in a...

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US slaps sanctions on four ICC judges over Israel, US cases

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court including over an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as it ramped up pressure to neuter the court of last resort...

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Israeli strikes kill 52 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks on Monday killed at least 52 people, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory...

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Netanyahu dragging US into disaster in region: Iran

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday accused Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to drag the United States into ‘disaster’ in the Middle East, warning against any attempt to attack Iran.

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Too little, too late

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel’s very foundation as a settler colonial project...

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Hungary announces ICC withdrawal as Netanyahu visits

Hungary on Thursday said it will quit the International Criminal Court, just as prime minister Viktor Orban hosted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the tribunal has accused of war crimes in Gaza.

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Freeing Gaza… from the Palestinians

ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that Israel will carry out Trump’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, saying the following on Sunday about ‘the final stage’ of his agenda:..

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Israel PM picks new security chief, defying legal challenge

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked former navy commander Eli Sharvit to head the domestic security agency, his office said on Monday, despite the supreme court freezing the incumbent’s dismissal....

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Israel says hostage body returned by Hamas not Bibas mother

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would ensure ‘Hamas pays the full price’ for failing to hand over Israeli mother Shiri Bibas after the militant group released a body Israel said was not hers....

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Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing

PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...

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TRUMP’S GAZA ‘RIVIERA’ PROPOSAL: A reckless real estate fantasy

ON FEBRUARY 4, in a press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump unveiled a plan as audacious as it is alarming: the United States would ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip, forcibly displace its 1.8 million Palestinian residents and redevelop the territory into a luxury enclave he dubbed ‘the Riviera of the...

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Criminal probe launched into Israel PM’s wife

Israeli police are conducting a criminal investigation into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the office of the state attorney said in a letter made public on Sunday...

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Bitter harvests: Gaza ceasefire

TWINNING the terms ‘ceasefire’ and ‘Gaza’ seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel’s hand, and Israeli prime minister...

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Blinded to Syria

I DO not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend...

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Straws in Syrian whirlwind

THE pendulum of zealotry almost always ushers in intellectual subterfuge in its wake. The lightning, if not spontaneous, takeover of Damascus by mediaeval militias is being predictably applauded by Western journalists as an overthrow of a 50-year-old family dictatorship...

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Israeli snipers shoot Palestinians for sport

ISRAEL’S attempts to excuse the mass murder of civilians in Gaza as ‘collateral damage’ fall apart in the face of mounting evidence that it employs deliberate sniper attacks. The targeted killing of unarmed people — using quadcopter drones and professional snipers — has restricted access to essential medical care, food, and water, exposing a chilling reality behind the occupation army’s actions...

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ICC warrant: accountability or polarisation

THE International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on November 21 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the ongoing Gaza conflict. This unprecedented move by the Hague-based court has sent...