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Israel’s Netanyahu forms surprise coalition with Kadima

May 8th, 2012 Comments off

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a surprise deal with the opposition Kadima partyIsrael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a surprise deal with the opposition Kadima party early Tuesday, drawing them into his government and jettisoning plans for a snap election.

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Israeli president: Early election canceled

May 8th, 2012 Comments off

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Monday, May 7, 2012. Netanyahu said Monday his Likud Party is going to propose Sept. 4 as the date for early elections. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)In a stunning reversal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off early elections Tuesday after reaching an agreement to bring the main opposition party into the government, a move that puts a more moderate face on his hawkish coalition.

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Israeli president’s office: Early elections off

May 8th, 2012 Comments off

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Monday, May 7, 2012. Netanyahu said Monday his Likud Party is going to propose Sept. 4 as the date for early elections. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)The Israeli president’s office is confirming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled early elections.

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Netanyahu calls for Israeli poll

May 6th, 2012 Comments off

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants an early general election to take place in four months’ time.
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Israel’s Labour leader slams Netanyahu on Iran

May 6th, 2012 Comments off

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is picturedThe head of Israel’s Labour party on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for presenting a potential nuclear Iran as the Jewish state’s greatest threat.

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Likud ‘would be largest party in election’: poll

April 27th, 2012 Comments off

A poll shows Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party winning 31 seats is an election was held nowAn Israeli poll published on Friday, amid fresh talk of possible early elections, showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party winning twice as much support as any rival.

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Global sanctions on Iran not working: Israel PM

April 3rd, 2012 Comments off

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuThe global campaign of imposing sanctions against Iran has so far failed to halt Tehran’s controversial nuclear drive, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

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Israel scales down its covert operations in Iran

April 2nd, 2012 Comments off

WASHINGTON – Israel has scaled down its covert operations inside Iran because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was worried about the consequences of a secret action being discovered or going awry, ac
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Clinton asked Lavrov to warn Iran: "This is your last chance before military action!"

March 14th, 2012 Comments off

… If true, yeah, this ought to do it!!

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked her Russian counterpart to warn Iran that it has one “last chance” to reach a negotiated settlement over its nuclear program and avoid military action, Kommersant said.Clinton delivered the message at a meeting with Sergei Lavrov at the United Nations on March 12, the Moscow-based newspaper said, without citing anyone.
The Foreign Ministry’s press service in Moscow declined to comment on the report, saying only that Lavrov hasn’t scheduled talks with Iranian officials “yet.” The U.S. Embassy in Moscow referred a request for a comment to a U.S. State Department official, who didn’t respond to calls outside normal business hours.
Russia expects a strike on Iran by the end of this year, Kommersant said, citing an unidentified senior Foreign Ministry official. World powers have invited Iran to hold a new round of talks to reach a deal to allay suspicions that the Iranian nuclear program is aimed at building atomic weapons.
President Barack Obama said this month that he takes “no options off the table,” to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after talks with Obama that his country reserves the right to act alone against Iran .”



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Netanyahu reiterates objection to Iran nuclear arms

March 8th, 2012 Comments off

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israel will not tolerate a nuclear-armed IranPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Thursday that Israel will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, after returning from White House talks centred on Tehran’s nuclear programme.

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