New York Magazine Calls Obama ‘The First Jewish President’
In New York magazine this week, John Heilemann contends that President Obama is the “best thing Israel has going for it right now” and despite some setbacks he remains a president “every bit as pro-Israel as the country’s own prime minister — and, if you look from the proper angle, maybe even more so.” The...
Benjamin Netanyahu Gets Heckled During Congressional Speech, Handles It Like A Pro
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is speaking to a joint session of the United States Congress this morning, thus far delivering a generally convivial speech that has appealed to both Democrats and Republicans in touting U.S.-Israeli relations. Just a few minutes into his speech, however, the Israeli leader was interrupted by protesting hecklers from the...
Codepink Interrupts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu At AIPAC Gala
Activists from Codepink, the woman-led anti-war group, appeared at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee gala last night to protest his position that re-implementing Israel's borders as they were in 1967 would be “indefensible.”
Chris Matthews: It’s ‘Unusual’ For Republicans To Side With A Foreign Nation (Israel) Against Obama
Chris Matthews was fascinated that many prominent Republicans would so publicly "line up with a foreign leader against the President of the United States," as they did this past week when they chose to support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the proposal suggested by President Obama. Matthews told Cynthia Tucker and...
Israel PM Responds Positively To Obama’s Well-Received AIPAC Speech
President Obama spoke at AIPAC earlier today, the group self-identified as "America's pro-Israel lobby" and received a great reaction. Despite some fearing that the relationship between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have been damaged, Obama clarified his statement about Israel needing to return to its 1967 borders and Netanyahu expressed...
Israel PM Responds Positively To Obama’s Well-Received AIPAC Speech
President Obama spoke at AIPAC earlier today, the group self-identified as "America's pro-Israel lobby" and received a great reaction. Despite some fearing that the relationship between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have been damaged, Obama clarified his statement about Israel needing to return to its 1967 borders and Netanyahu expressed...
Andrea Mitchell: Israel PM Lectured Obama And Treated Him Like ‘A Schoolboy’
President Obama's recent speech on the Middle East was highlighted by his call for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders before the Six-Day War in which Israel occupied land in Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Obama believes that any meaningful negotiation for peace requires an acknowledgment of those old borders, while Israeli Prime Minister...
Andrea Mitchell: Israel PM Lectured Obama And Treated Him Like ‘A Schoolboy’
President Obama's recent speech on the Middle East was highlighted by his call for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders before the Six-Day War in which Israel occupied land in Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Obama believes that any meaningful negotiation for peace requires an acknowledgment of those old borders, while Israeli Prime Minister...
Israeli PM Netanyahu: Japan Situation Has ‘Caused Me To Reconsider’ Nuclear Power
In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan set to air tonight, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said the expanding threat of a nuclear catastrophe in Japan has changed his thinking on the safety of nuclear power. "It certainly caused me to reconsider the projects of building civil nuclear power plants," Netanyahu said. "I have...
