Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres this weekend declared that Israel would continue pursuing a multi-year plan to economically develop the country’s southern Negev region and politically integrate the Bedouin populations that live in the area, after activists late last week staged violent rallies opposing the so-called Prawer-Begin plan: Israeli...

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Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum have begun echoing the deep skepticism expressed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding this weekend’s interim deal between the P5+1 and Iran. Netanyahu blasted the agreement as a “historic mistake” and committed Jerusalem to acting in the “diplomatic arena” and “in other...

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Analysts, diplomats, and journalists spent overnight Saturday and into Sunday outlining both the meaning and the implications of an interim agreement secured last night between the P5+1 global powers and Iran. Controversy erupted not just over the substance of the deal – whether it met the benchmark previously set by...

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Israeli media outlets this morning conveyed and further contextualized an infographic, published yesterday by The Israel Project (TIP), evaluating the details of an agreement that the P5+1 global powers and Iran are reportedly close to signing. Arutz 7’s Ari Yashar stated that the graphic “offer[ed] detailed figures and analysis of...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last night doubled down on a controversial Wednesday speech in which he branded Israel a “rabid dog” – part of a diatribe in which he also declared that Israeli leaders “cannot be called humans” but “are like animals” – by posting images to Twitter...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday lashed out at a range of actors and elements long described by Tehran as antagonists – including Israel and global powers seeking to negotiate a settlement over Iran’s nuclear program – leading Agence France Press to report that talks scheduled to begin shortly in Geneva...

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The Associated Press describes a burgeoning “strange alliance” between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the latest development in what has become a cascade of regional adjustments by traditional U.S. allies concerned that Washington is ceding its traditional role as a regional power: In one of the region’s oddest pairings, Israel and the Gulf...

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Former Israeli national security adviser Yaakov Amidror spoke over the weekend to the Financial Times, days before global powers were set to meet with Iranian negotiators in efforts to strike a deal over Iran’s nuclear program. The P5+1 group has been criticized – including by France, which is part of the...

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Recent days have witnessed something of a rhetorical campaign questioning the motivations and even loyalties of analysts and lawmakers pushing for new sanctions against Iran. Weeks ago the administration line – that sanctions had coerced Iranian leaders into coming to the negotiating table against their will and that new sanctions would derail ongoing...

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The last few months have seen Israel seek to engage the United Nations in general, and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in particular, on the hope that active participation in the global body and its forums may alleviate what both Israeli and American diplomats have criticized as a...

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