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9:56 AM, Apr 30, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe father of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the historian and Zionist Benzion Netanyahu, died this morning. He was 102 years old.
"Benzion Netanyahu, who died Monday, was a renowned scholar who both wrote history and influenced it in a lifetime that spanned a century," the Times of Israel reports. "Netanyahu, 102, was a historian who authored several important works on the Spanish Inquisition, challenging the accepted views about that vital chapter of Jewish history."
The New York Times adds:
His death was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. Mr. Netanyahu was at various times a journalist, an encyclopedia editor, a professor, a historian and a lobbyist — not to mention a behind-the-scenes adviser to his son, the most powerful person in Israel. Throughout, his views were relentlessly hawkish: he argued that Jews inevitably faced discrimination that was racial and not religious, and that efforts to compromise with Arabs were futile.
In the 1940s, as the executive director of the New Zionist Organization in the United States, he met with influential policymakers like General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
11:29 AM, Apr 19, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLHere's the text of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's powerful Holocaust Remembrance Day speech to his countrymen. Worth reading.
Read more... Kadima goes right.12:15 PM, Jun 25, 2010 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
“The party and the viewpoint that we’re closest to in Israeli politics is actually Kadima.” -- J Street founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami, October 28, 2009.
Over the last 18 months, there’s been a lot of debate about the Obama administration’s strategy in Israel – not whether it’s working (you can’t find anyone in town to make that case), but what it seeks to achieve.
Read more... Fifteen months of Obama diplomacy have undermined Palestinian autonomy.12:00 AM, Apr 28, 2010 • By ELLIOTT ABRAMS
Will proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority soon begin? While both Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Abbas have said they hope so, the matter is no longer in the hands of the Palestinians but in those of the Arab League foreign ministers--who meet May 1.
Read more... And Schumer and Gillibrand.1:38 PM, Mar 30, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPERThe former mayor of New York City, Democrat Ed Koch, has strong words for President Obama and senators from New York:
Read more... A piece of paper will not bring peace to the Middle EastApr 5, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 28 • By ELLIOTT ABRAMS
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
Read more... With him, everything is opposite.5:30 PM, Feb 5, 2010 • By JAMIE FLYThe 2010 Herzliya Conference in Israel ended with a whimper on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, delivering the 2010 Herzliya Lecture, stunned the audience of Israeli and international security experts by using his prime time platform to speak about almost every issue except Israel's security.
Read more... Some thoughts from Israel.9:41 AM, Feb 3, 2010 • By JAMIE FLYHerzliya, Israel
The first full day of meetings at the Herzliya Conference in Herzliya, Israel began on Monday, aptly enough, with a panel discussion entitled “Still Special? U.S.-Israel Relations.” The fact that the organizers even had to pose the question intimated that something was amiss, but surprisingly, the majority of the panelists ignored reality and argued that the relationship was not threatened. This was perhaps due to the fact that two of them were representatives of the governments in question. The others sounded a note of caution about jumping to conclusions too early in Obama’s presidency despite concerns in Israel about the Obama administration’s Middle East policy ranging from its engagement with Iran to its pressure on Israel to compromise aimed at furthering the peace process.
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