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Benjamin Netanyahu gives a victory speech on election night, March 18, 2015. (Photo: +972 Magazine)

What now, Bibi? — Early election takeaways

Netanyahu picked a fight with a sitting U.S. president and declared there will never be a Palestinian State. It might have helped him squeeze out another election victory, but where is Israel heading? The Likud and Labor (The Zionist Camp) are tied with 27 seats, but Benjamin Netanyahu has way more paths to bring together…

By Noam Sheizaf March 18, 2015

Amir Peretz, Tzipi Livni and Amram Mitzna [right] (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)

Livni’s number two: We should leave the government now

MK Mitzna adds that he hopes the departure of his party from the coalition will lead to its downfall. Amram Mitzna, former head of Labor party and currently number two in Tzipi Livni’s Tnuah party, called on his fellow party members to leave Netanyahu’s government due to the prime minister’s lack of commitment to…

By Noam Sheizaf June 7, 2014

Binyamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid (Photo: IsraeliinUSA/CC BY 2.0, Activestills.org)

Bibi and Lapid: Rise of the metrosexuals

Netanyahu used to be in a class by himself as a vainly handsome Israeli political leader obsessed with his appearance. Now he’s got company, and competition. Oh God — Netanyahu and Lapid in the same cabinet meetings. I don’t know if so much preening, posing and mugging can be contained in one room without the…

By Larry Derfner March 12, 2013

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Inconvenient truths. Netanyahu speaking to the Jewish Agency. (Photo: Jewish Agency for Israel, cc by-nd 2.0)

Women’s exclusion comes from the top

Behind the rhetorical condemnations of women’s exclusion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz are at least partially responsible for women’s exclusion. Discrimination and marginalization of women in the public sphere has been fermenting for years as a direct result of Israeli policies – or lack thereof. By Gil Gan Mor Israel’s political…

By +972 Magazine January 2, 2012

This government WANTS Hamas for its “partner”

Mahmoud Abbas’ popularity in the West is a headache for Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s no wonder he’d rather do business with Hamas If I were Bibi Netanyahu, that’s what I’d want. I’d say to myself: “Mahmoud Abbas is a pain in the neck, he’s popular with the West, he makes Israel look bad – he cooperates…

By Larry Derfner October 24, 2011