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Biden, Netanyahu End Telephone Silence

Differences, especially over a Palestinian state, have cooled regular conversations

(Newser) - For the first time since Dec. 23, when President Biden hung up on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in frustration, the two leaders had a phone conversation on Friday. "The call was good," a senior Israeli official told Axios , saying it lasted about 40 minutes and included updates...

Netanyahu's Comments Prompt 'Rebuke' From White House

Israeli PM says two-state solution is an absolute no-go

(Newser) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected US calls to scale back Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House, the AP reports. The tense back and forth...

South Africa Makes the Case for Genocide in Gaza

Netanyahu defends military campaign as being 'in full compliance with international law'

(Newser) - A continent away from the fighting between Israel and Hamas, South Africa told judges at the United Nations' top court on Thursday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and pleaded with the court to urgently order Israel to halt its military operation, per the AP . "Genocides are never...

Netanyahu Says He Won't Quit, Even After the War

Former Cabinet member apologizes to public for role in Israeli's polarization

(Newser) - Despite his governments decline in the polls and the protests in the streets, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis he has no intention of resigning—even after the fighting against Hamas ends. The question was asked of him during a televised news conference on Saturday night. "The only...

'Do Not Stop,' Netanyahu Tells Troops in Gaza

After a bloody weekend of fighting, prime minister assures soldiers their lives are important

(Newser) - In the face of international pressure for a ceasefire, Benjamin Netanyahu went to northern Gaza on Monday to deliver his message of persistence to Israeli troops in person. The trip followed a weekend of fighting that produced a high death toll on both sides of the Israel-Hamas war. The prime...

Egypt Floats Ambitious Plan for Gaza Peace

Would include ceasefire, mutual hostage/prisoner release, creation of Palestinian government

(Newser) - Egypt has put forward an ambitious, initial proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war with a ceasefire, a phased hostage release, and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts who would administer the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, a senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat said Monday. Word...

76 Members of a Family Are Killed by Airstrike
76 Members of a Family
Are Killed by Airstrike
the rundown
Dec 23, 2023 5:25 PM CST

76 Members of a Family Are Killed by Airstrike

Aid workers say UN resolution isn't of use without a cease-fire

(Newser) - An Israeli attack on Gaza killed dozens of people in an extended family, rescue officials said Saturday, as aid workers criticized a newly passed UN resolution and President Biden had a long talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition, a Washington Post analysis assessed the historic level of...

Almost Half of Israeli Strikes Are With 'Dumb Bombs'

US wants more use of precision-guided missiles to minimize civilian casualties

(Newser) - Nearly half of the munitions Israel has fired into Gaza in the last two months have been unguided, which undercuts Israel's claim that it's trying to minimize civilian casualties and helps explain the huge civilian death toll, CNN reports. Just 55% to 60% of the more than 29,...

US Wants Israel to Alter Military Strategy

Biden wants an end to broad ground offensive in Gaza, an idea that Netanyahu does not immediately embrace

(Newser) - The US has pushed Israel to wrap up its sweeping ground offensive in Gaza by the end of the year and shift to a more precise, targeted strategy. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, delivered the message on Thursday, the New York Times reports. Although Sullivan, who is in Israel,...

After Endorsing Antisemitic Post, Musk Visits Israel

With PM Netanyahu at his side, X CEO tours kibbutz attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7

(Newser) - Elon Musk toured an Israeli kibbutz on Monday accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including the home of a 4-year-old hostage who was abducted when Hamas militants stormed the community on Oct. 7. CNN Business reports that during Musk's visit to Kfar Azza, he and Netanyahu stopped by the...

Israel: Hostage Deal Is in the Works
Israel: Hostage Deal
Is in the Works
Nov 21, 2023 10:45 AM CST

Israel: Hostage Deal Is in the Works

Cabinet meeting on Tuesday as mediators work on deal that would include temporary ceasefire

(Newser) - Israel's Cabinet was to convene Tuesday to consider a deal for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas, as troops battled militants in an urban refugee camp in north Gaza and around hospitals overcrowded with patients and sheltering families. Details of any deal, worked out through...

President Biden, It&#39;s Time for a Peace Plan


Let's Not Be Netanyahu's
'Useful Idiot'
OPINION
Nov 14, 2023 7:25 AM CST

Let's Not Be Netanyahu's 'Useful Idiot'

Thomas Friedman writes that Biden should float a peace plan, with Trump's 2020 plan as the framework

(Newser) - In the view of Thomas Friedman in the New York Times , Benjamin Netanyahu does not have much of a plan for Gaza. Based on what the Israeli leader has been saying, his long-term vision amounts to this: "Seven million Jews trying to govern five million Palestinians in perpetuity—and...

Netanyahu: Gaza Will Be Israel's Indefinite 'Responsibility'

Though it's not entirely clear what that means

(Newser) - Asked who should govern Gaza when the fighting between Israel and Hamas ends, Benjamin Netanyahu said in an ABC News interview Monday, "Those who don't want to continue the way of Hamas." What does that mean? He explained: "I think Israel will, for an indefinite period,...

As US Urges Pause, Israel Strikes 2 More Refugee Camps

Dozens reportedly killed as Blinken continues his third visit since war broke out

(Newser) - Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 53 people including children and wounding dozens in central Gaza, health officials said. The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war surpassed 9,700 with more than 4,000 of them children and minors,...

Israeli Official Suspended After Talk of Nuclear Attack

Netanyahu, defense minister denounce the comment

(Newser) - Israel's heritage minister has been suspended from office indefinitely after suggesting in an interview that Israel could drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the action after Amichai Eliyahu's radio interview aired Sunday, Politico reports. Reasoning that there are "no non-combatants in Gaza,...

Israeli 'Concept Paper' on Gaza's 2.3M People Worries Egypt

Report deemed a hypothetical by Netanyahu proposes moving Palestinians to Egypt's Sinai

(Newser) - An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, drawing condemnation from Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a...

Netanyahu Rules Out Ceasefire
Netanyahu: 'This
Is a Time for War'
Oct 30, 2023 7:00 PM CDT

Netanyahu: 'This Is a Time for War'

He strongly rejects calls for a ceasefire

(Newser) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out a ceasefire with Hamas despite rising international concern over civilian casualties Monday, comparing Israel's position to that of the US after Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 attacks. "Israel did not start this war. Israel did not want this war. But Israel...

Hundreds Storm Russia Airport to Protest Flight From Israel

Some were chanting antisemitic slogans, officials say

(Newser) - Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia's Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported. Russian news reports said the crowd surrounded the airliner, which...

Israel Announces Next Stage in 'Second War of Independence'

Netanyahu says goals are destroying Hamas and freeing hostages

(Newser) - The second stage of the war against Hamas has begun, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday. That appears to mean a sustained ground invasion of Gaza, the New York Times reports, though Netanyahu didn't put it that way. He said at a news conference that Israeli forces had...

Biden: Israel Will Allow Humanitarian Relief to Gaza

But only through the border with Egypt, and with inspections

(Newser) - President Biden said Wednesday that Israel had agreed to allow humanitarian assistance to begin flowing into Gaza from Egypt with the understanding it would be subject to inspections, and that such aid should go to civilians and not Hamas militants. In remarks from Tel Aviv, where the president had gone...

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