nly appropriate and feasible solution, the only realistic and proper goal for Zionism in this complex world of the 21st century. • A friend (from the Likud, actually) told me that when he was young, he visited Ben Gurion's home a few times. In one of their conversations, the boy asked the Old Man: "how i

only appropriate and feasible solution, the only realistic and proper goal for Zionism in this complex world of the 21s century. • A friend (from the Likud, actually) told me that when he was young, he visited Ben Gurion's home a few times. In one of their conversations, the boy asked the Old Man: "how i

p is foreseen from the $1.5 billion in pledges made at a donors' conference on January 30" in Kuwait. Israel: While recent elections kept Netanyahu's Likud party in the lead by winning 31 of 120 seats in the Knesset, the new centrist party Yesh Atid's ability to win 19 seats under the leadership of Yair

ot be allowed to use its uranium-enrichment program to develop a nuclear weapon, an issue that the two will discuss during Obama's visit. Netanyahu's Likud party emerged from elections last month as the largest bloc in Israel's parliament, meaning that he will serve another term as prime minister. But HO

ot be allowed to use its uranium-enrichment program to develop a nuclear weapon, an issue that the two will discuss during Obama's visit. Netanyahu's Likud party emerged from elections last month as the largest bloc in Israel's parliament, meaning that he will serve another term as prime minister. But HO

MK who is in a small party that I think has not presence in the Knesset. Haim Oron. The only MK I have been close to lately is Sharon Haskell, the Likud member who convinced the Likud to make pot legal. I gave her a copy of one of my books, the one that was published in English. Pretty and single an

MK who is in a small party that I think has not presence in the Knesset. Haim Oron. The only MK I have been close to lately is Sharon Haskell, the Likud member who convinced the Likud to make pot legal. I gave her a copy of one of my books, the one that was published in English. Pretty and single an

MK who is in a small party that I think has not presence in the Knesset. Haim Oron. The only MK I have been close to lately is Sharon Haskell, the Likud member who convinced the Likud to make pot legal. I gave her a copy of one of my books, the one that was published in English. Pretty and single an

u can't publicly admit this policy because it would alienate his right-leaning political base. The settler lobby, which has a strong footing in the Likud Party, constantly criticizes Netanyahu for not permitting "sufficient" construction. To placate them, it appears that Netanyahu's government has b

or the 34th Government of Israel The Knesset narrowly approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government in a 61-59 vote. Netanyahu's own Likud party formed a center- right governing coalition with Shas Kulanu United Torah Judaism and HaBayit HaYehudi. Read More about the 34th Knesset at t

sset for Mr. Netanyahu. Mr. Netanyahu showed that he was desperate, and craven, enough to pull out all the stops. On Monday, he promised that if his Likud faction remained in power, he would never allow the creation of a Palestinian state, thus repudiating a position he had taken in 2009. His behavior

as possible and to go to the people and get a clear mandate to lead Israel," a statement from his office said. Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, also said he ordered the dismissal of Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who both head centrist parties. "In past

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t movement since the fall of Communism.) The overt anti-Arab racism in Yisrael Beytenu's campaign in 2008, and the fact that it has now merged with Likud, may be a national embarrassment to many Israeli liberals, but it, too, illuminates another tempting pathway for Putin's outreach to a changing Mid

EFTA00630432 population in the West Bank, and jeopardizes Israel proper. The explosion of settlements, encouraged and subsidized by both Labor and Likud governments, has led to a large and established ethnocracy that thinks of itself as a permanent frontier. In 1980, twelve thousand Jews lived in th

trived show of reciprocity that masks how negotiations are going nowhere. The most serious obstacle is Israeli and ideological. Most of Netanyahu's Likud, along with his ultra-rightist, Orthodox coalition partners, believe that Jerusalem and the whole land of Israel is the sacred EFTA00662853 patri

y appropriate and feasible solution, the only realistic and proper goal for Zionism in this complex world of the 21st century. A friend (from the Likud, actually) • told me that when he was young, he visited Ben Gurion's home a few times. EFTA00683738 In one of their conversations, the boy ask

ardcore supporters of settlements, which currently number 200 and keep Palestinians off more than 40% of the West Bank, now dominate the right-wing Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has announced regular expansions of settlements during the current round of talks — an act conside

ew years later by settlers from the religious-Zionist Gush Emunim movement; in the late 1970s, it was authorized by Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government. Today, it is the West Bank's third-largest settlement, drawing many secular Israelis attracted as much by its striking desert landscape

e referendum. 11-25 July 2000 Camp David II negotiations between Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat. 25 July 2000 Camp David Statement. 28 September 2000 Likud leader Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, prompting major Palestinian riots. Second Palestinian uprising (al-Aqsa Intifadah) b