In an interview with Reuters on Monday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama attempted to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s credibility on the Iranian issue by saying that Netanyahu had made inaccurate statements about the outcomes of negotiations....

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President Barack Obama “should not dismiss the concerns” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised yesterday in his speech to Congress, Ambassador Dennis Ross, who served for two years as a special assistant to President Obama, asserted today in a column published today in USA Today. The administration needs to explain why the deal...

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The Arab world has shown surprisingly strong support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech yesterday in the United States Congress. A number of journalists from Arab countries expressed their backing for the speech and said that its message is important due to the possibility of Iran becoming a nuclear power under...

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President Barack Obama must address the “legitimate questions” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up in his Congressional speech yesteray, a staff editorial in The Washington Post argued today. The editorial’s argument was based on the Netanyahu’s explanation of the two major concessions that the United States has given to Iran, as...

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President Barack Obama should listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the dangers of Iran, Faisal Abbas, editor-in-chief of the Al-Arabiya news network, argued in an opinion piece published earlier today ahead of Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress. Abbas, it should be clear, is no fan...

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In an op-ed published Saturday in The New York Times, Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog wrote that “on the Iranian nuclear threat, Israelis are one.” More generally Herzog argued: But a nuclear Iran would endanger not only Israel. If it goes nuclear, the Middle East will go nuclear, putting world...

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President Barack Obama made a number of inaccurate claims about the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran in an interview with Reuters yesterday. In the course of the interview the President charged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was wrong in his assessment of Iran’s behavior since the P5+1 agreed to the...

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America’s Middle Eastern allies are concerned that they “haven’t had their say” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, told Luke Russert this morning in an interview (embedded below) on The Briefing on MSNBC. Hazony’s argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t just be representing Israel...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech, rather than being divisive, will address the Iranian threat which is a matter of bipartisan concern in the United States, David Hazony argued Monday in The Forward. Hazony is editor of The Tower. After asking, “[w]hat happens, however, when you actually bracket out the...

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Today was the thirty third day of Operation Protective Edge. Since the ceasefire ended Hamas has fired roughly 100 rockets into Israel. Since the end of the ceasefire, Hamas fired approx.100 rockets at Israel. In response, the IDF targeted some 120 terror sites & 9 operatives — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) August...

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