In a wide-ranging speech on the Middle East, President Obama has made his clearest statement yet of support for a Palestinian state, based on the 1967 borders with Israel. He emphasised the importance of secure and recognised borders and said mutually-agreed land swaps would be needed. But the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who [...]
Protesters interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a prominent American Jewish group Monday, the same day his government said it would move ahead with hundreds of new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem.
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told AIPAC activists that “Jerusalem is not a settlement,” and also depicted the Palestinian Authority as not taking steps for peace.
Right after it happened, Israel’s ambassador to the United States described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “insult” to Vice President Joe Biden as the worst crisis to hit relations between the two countries in three decades.