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Pro-Israel supporters fly Israeli flags at the Israeli Day Parade in New York City. (Ben Roffer/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Why I had to leave Israel’s Foreign Ministry
As a former Israeli ambassador, I never expected just how badly the country’s situation would deteriorate. By Ilan Baruch It has been five years since I breathed a sigh of relief and left Israel’s Foreign Ministry building. No more would I represent the Netanyahu government’s hasbara as a diplomat and attorney. In my farewell letter…
By +972 Magazine February 24, 2016
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Bar-Ilan University. (Photo Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
There is no reason to trust Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu can backpedal all he wants, but now it is clear even to his biggest champions that he is no longer interested in the two-state solution. Now it’s up to the White House to take a stand. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s landslide election victory on Tuesday stunned even the biggest pessimists. What looked like a possible…
By Edo Konrad March 19, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Bar-Ilan University. (Photo Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
Netanyahu: Two-state solution is off the table, kinda
The Israeli prime minister moves closer than ever to officially declaring an end to the two-state solution. He doesn’t say it explicitly, but there are only so many eulogies a political paradigm can sustain before it expires.  Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced that his  commitment to a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside Israel was…
By Dimi Reider March 8, 2015
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Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)
Likud MK: ‘Netanyahu’s two-state speech was a tactical move’
The prime minister’s Likud-Beitenu party has yet to present a platform for the upcoming elections, and if one is to be published, it most likely won’t include any reference to a future Palestinian state. Education Minister Sa’ar: ‘it is time to sober up from the idea.’ Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely said on Monday that Prime…
By Noam Sheizaf December 31, 2012
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