Latest News on Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel offers settlement suspension, Palestinians reject - Summary
Jerusalem/Ramallah - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday announced a 10-month moratorium of Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank, urging Palestinians to accept the offer and renew long-stalled peace negotiations. But Palesti...

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EXTRA: Netanyahu: Israel to implement 10-month settlement suspension
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday a 10-month moratorium of Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank, urging Palestinians to accept the offer and revive long-stalled peace negotiations. Israel would not st...

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EXTRA: Palestinians reject Netanyahu's settlement freeze offer
Ramallah - The Palestinian Authority quickly rejected Wednesday an Israeli decision to partially freeze settlement construction, insisting that the freeze should be comprehensive. Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu announced a freeze on new construct...

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1STLEAD: Netanyahu asks cabinet to okay settlement building freeze
Jerusalem/Ramallah - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his inner cabinet Wednesday to discuss plans for a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, but not in East Jerusalem. But even before the ministers m...

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Netanyahu asks cabinet to okay settlement building halt - Summary
Jerusalem/Ramallah - Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu asked ministers Wednesday to approve a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, in a move designed to address an issue preventing the restart of peace talks with the ...

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EXTRA: Israeli cabinet approves 10-month settlement moratorium
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner security cabinet approved a 10-month moratorium of Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Channel 2 television reported Wednesday evening. The moratorium does not include...

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Netanyahu: Four-country draft deal with Iran 'positive' - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

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Mitchell preparing Clinton Mideast talks - Summary
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday welcomed US efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks as soon as possible, ahead of a first visit to Israel by Washington's top diplomat Hillary Clinton since Netanyahu took office in March...

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Netanyahu: Israel sees four-country proposal to Iran as 'positive'
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support Friday for US President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a compromise with Iran over its nuclear programme. Reacting for the first time to the joint deal drafted by the Vienna...

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EXTRA: Mitchell to Netanyahu: regional peace 'common objective'
Jerusalem - Washington's special envoy to the Middle East ended a more than two-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, preparing the ground for a one-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. George Mitchell...

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Netanyahu, Sarkozy meet in Paris amidst peace stalemate - Summary
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Paris Wednesday for talks on the stalled Mideast peace process. In a terse joint statement issued after the meeting, the two leaders said they agreed to ma...

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Netanyahu in Paris for talks with Sarkozy
Paris - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Paris Wednesday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy on the stalled Mideast peace process. The meeting promises to be tense, as Sarkozy has repeatedly called for a total freeze on Israe...

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Netanyahu calls reports of tensions with US 'nonsense'
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday praised his talks with US President Barack Obama and also dismissed as nonsense reports of tensions in US-Israeli affairs. The Israeli online service ynet carried Netanyahu's remarks ...

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ANALYSIS: Israeli moratorium, a PR stunt or enough to revive talks?
Jerusalem - Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement of a 10-month suspension of Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank - and his earlier endorsement in June of a demilitarized Palestinian state - may be a giant leap for the right-wing in Israel. Bu...

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Abbas says Netanyahu chose 'settlement, not peace'
Santiago - Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority, said Thursday in Chile that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had chosen settlement, not peace. The Israeli prime minister contributed nothing, settlement is going t...

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Assad urges Netanyahu to resume Turkish-mediated talks - Summary
Paris - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Friday in Paris that he did not want to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he urged the Israeli leader to send negotiators to Turkey. If Mister Netanyahu is serious (about the peace...

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Obama, Netanyahu meet as Mideast peace talks flounder - Summary
Washington - President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Monday as the US struggles to revive stalled Middle East peace talks. The president reaffirmed our strong commitment to Israel's security, and discussed secu...

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No deal with Hamas yet, Israel's Netanyahu says - Summary
Gaza/Jerusalem/Cairo/Damascus - Israel and the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas were cautious Tuesday over efforts by a German mediator to conclude indirect negotiations on a prisoner swap. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday tha...

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EXTRA: No deal on prisoners exchange yet, says Netanyahu
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday no deal had yet been sealed on a prisoners exchange with the radical Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza. There still isn't any conclusion, any deal, any decision, he told reporters...

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Netanyahu 'shocked' by brutal murder of Israeli family - Summary
Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Sunday deep pain and shock over the horrifying murder of a family of six - two grandparents, two parents, and two young children - in Israel this weekend. The six victims were found e...

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Netanyahu wants peace with Palestinians 'soon'
Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he is committed to peace negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions and that he wanted to complete an accord soon. Netanyahu spoke hours ahead of a closed door evening ...

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Obama envoy meeting Netanyahu in bid to revive Mideast peace talks
Jerusalem - President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy held talks Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an intense and ongoing - but so far unsuccessful - US bid to revive broken-off peace negotiations with the Palestinians...

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Claims Israel digging under holy site outright lie, Netanyahu says
Jerusalem - Claims that Israel was digging, or intending to dig, under the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem were an outright lie disseminated by an extremist minority, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. Last...

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Report: Clinton to visit Israel and West Bank
Tel Aviv - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to make her first visit to Israel and the West Bank since the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office in March, Israeli and Palestinian media reported Wednesday. C...

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Netanyahu: 'Israel must prepare to fight delegitimization'
Jerusalem - Israel must take appropriate measures against its delegitimization in the UN Human Rights Council, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a special ministerial forum Friday night, the Israeli Haaretz daily reported on Saturda...

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