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rief, Thursday, 26 May, 2011 UNSCO Daily Press Brief Thursday, 26 May, 2011 Diplomacy: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu's outline of a peace deal as a non-starter and said he is now setting his sights on UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the fall. (AP) Speaking

UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the fall. (AP) Speaking at the opening of a meeting for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, Abbas said Netanyahu "has shown us, in addition to the many mistakes and distortions that he moved very far from the peace process. There was nothing that we could buil

in anything Israel wanted, including the newest weapons, NATO membership, maybe even EU membership. It could be a security windfall for Israel. Does Bibi have any surprise in him or do the Palestinians have him right: a big faker, hiding a nationalist-religious agenda under a cloak of security?" Gaza

el's attempt to stop the move would force Israel to accept it, but under the conditions posed by the Palestinians and not under Israel's conditions. Dagan said that Israeli acceptance of the move could actually minimize the damage. (Maariv) Columnist Ari Shavit writes in Haaretz that "Netanyahu missed

United States. The kingdom will not be lectured to. It is sick and tired of American favoritism to Israel — the exuberant congressional reception for Binyamin Netanyahu, for example — and the administration's decision to oppose any effort in the United Nations to create a Palestinian state. In this matter, America is

of Israel's Mossad spy agency, declared last month that attacking Iran would be "a stupid idea." He suggested his main worry was not Iran itself but Netanyahu's susceptibility to "dangerous adventure." Dagan's concerns have surfaced as Seymour Hersh concludes in a New Yorker article this month that, as he p

hat attacking Iran would be "a stupid idea." He suggested his main worry was not Iran itself but Netanyahu's susceptibility to "dangerous adventure." Dagan's concerns have surfaced as Seymour Hersh concludes in a New Yorker article this month that, as he put it in one interview, "There's just no serious

as a huge success is now being overshadowed by enormous question marks. If the perpetrators were from the Mossad (AFMR, of course), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be walking around with an acute sense of deja vu. Once again, an assassination of a senior Flames leader in a friendly Arab country; once agai

nce again, an operation designed to kill someone quietly and inconspicuously; once again, a diplomatic mess; and once again, it is all happening on Netanyahu's watch. In 1997, it was Khaled Meshal in Jordan. This time, it's Mabhouh in Dubai. Advertisement EFTA_R1_00199090 EFTA01824879 The anticipated

, and whose lives and liberty are therefore now threatened. Weinstein has not yet had time to study the issue. He has some superficial knowledge of Dagan's character, but no prejudice. Netanyahu played deaf to the warnings and extended Dagan's tenure for an eighth year, a decision as hasty as it was

as a huge success is now being overshadowed by enormous question marks. If the perpetrators were from the Mossad (AFMR, of course), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be walking around with an acute sense of deja vu. Once again, an assassination of a senior Hamas leader in a friendly Arab country; once again

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, and whose lives and liberty are therefore now threatened. Weinstein has not yet had time to study the issue. He has some superficial knowledge of Dagan's character, but no prejudice. Netanyahu played deaf to the wamings and extended Dagan's tenure for an eighth year, a decision as hasty as it was u

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Rcmnick September 3, 2012 -- Earlier this month, the liberal Israeli novelist David Grossman published an op-ed in Haaretz decrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fevered declarations that he might soon order a unilateral strike on Iran and its nuclear facilities. Since early last year, Israelis have witnesse

uclear facilities. Since early last year, Israelis have witnessed a dissidence of a variety almost unknown since the founding of the state. Even as Netanyahu and his Defense Minister, Ehud EFTA00713352 Barak, routinely speak of an imminent "existential threat" from Teheran, comparable to that of the Na

riter met with Meir Dagan, who was the director of the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations—the Mossad—from 2002 until January, 2011. Dagan is known as a ruthless agent; his career is said to have included operations of all kinds—car bombings, poisonings, cyberwar. He was also the earli