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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem November 9, 2014. REUTERS

Palestinian Rage over Netanyahu’s Autonomy Remarks

by Kifah Ziboun | Feb 24, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah, Tel Aviv- The Palestinian authority rejected statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Australia on Thursday on granting autonomy to the Palestinians. “Neither autonomy nor canton. Those two options are a bygone—without a Palestinian...

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El-Sisi, Netanyahu, Kerry and Abdullah. (photo credit: REUTERS)

Netanyahu: I Secretly Met El-Sisi, Abdullah II

by Nazir Majli | Feb 20, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Sunday he met secretly a year ago with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Southern Jordanian town of Aqaba. Israel’s Haaretz daily said on Sunday that...

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval Office. AP

Formation of U.S.-Israeli Committees Upsets Settlers

by Nazir Majli | Feb 18, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv- With the return of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the U.S. following what he has considered a historic meeting with President Donald Trump, Israel’s rightwing expressed disappointment and concerns over agreements reached between the two sides...

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U.S. President Donald Trump (R) laughs with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference. Reuters

Iran Dismisses Trump-Netanyahu Comments as ‘Nonsense’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 17, 2017 | World

London- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has snapped back at U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by describing their comments on Iran’s nuclear weapons as “nonsense.” Israel’s atomic arsenal is the biggest...

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A general view picture shows the Israeli barrier running along the East Jerusalem refugee camp of Shuafat, in an area Israel annexed to Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Middle East war February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

UN, Arab League Chief Endorse 2-State Solution

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 16, 2017 | Middle East

The United Nations and the Arab League on Thursday issued a joint statement endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state. Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul-Gheit affirmed that the conflict “It requires a comprehensive and just settlement based on a two-state...