Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party is expected to recommend to President Reuven Rivlin that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz be tasked with forming a government, according to Hebrew media reports Thursday neither confirmed nor denied by the party. With Liberman’s backing, Gantz could receive more recommendations than Netanyahu, complicating Rivlin’s choice of who to […]
Netanyahu Said to Tell Ministers He May Not Be Able to Hold Coalition Together…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly told ministers in his coalition that he will not be able to appoint Education Minister Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home party to the defense minister post because of opposition to the move from other coalition partners, a development which likely puts Israel on course for early elections. The […]
No Choice: Deri and Kahlon Call for Elections After Liberman Quits…
The Short War with Gaza Exposed Israel’s Weakness…
Israeli Incursions into Gaza Are the Rule, Not the Exception…
Since Israeli special forces troops got into a deadly firefight with Hamas commandos deep inside the Gaza Strip Sunday night, Israel has dropped dozens of bombs and missiles into Gaza and Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel. The New York Times described the special forces raid as “the first known Israeli ground incursion […]
Israeli’s Aren’t Happy with Netanyahu, but Still Look to Him to Solve Gaza…
IDF Strikes Deep in Gaza After Troops Come Under Fire, Amid Talk of 4th Gaza War…
The Israel Air Force launched a major wave of strikes at Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday evening as a cabinet minister said Israel was preparing a massive response to Hamas’s failure to heed repeated Israeli warnings to end the violence along the Gaza border. “At this time our aircraft are carrying out […]
Liberman: Trump Administration Has Warned Israel Not to Annex West Bank…
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Monday that Israel has received a direct message from US President Donald Trump’s administration warning of an “immediate crisis” if the government were to annex the West Bank and apply Israeli sovereignty there. Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Liberman said that he had received calls from […]
Blistering Gaza War Report Scorches Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz over Tunnel Failures…
Israel’s state comptroller took military and political leaders to task for their failure to prepare adequately for the threat of attack tunnels ahead of the 2014 war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in a pair of long-awaited, highly critical reports published on Tuesday. The reports found significant gaps in the military’s intelligence in the […]
Israel Approves Plans to Build 800 New Settler Units in Defiance of International Law…
Israel has approved plans to construct 800 new housing units for settlers in and around the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in open defiance of international law…