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Saudi Journalist: Netanyahu ‘Got it Right’ on Iran, Obama Must Listen!

Obama would rather ignore Netanyahu, but a prominent Saudi journalist says that Netanyahu is telling the truth and the American leader should heed his...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

How J Street Misled Obama Into Netanyahu Speech Debacle

Who misled President Obama into his losing showdown over Prime Minister Netanyahu’s blockbuster speech to Congress? And how much of this week’s setback to the...

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REACTIONS TO SPEECH BY NETANYAHU

(PREPARED BY THE ISRAEL ALLIES CAUCUS) Rep. Eliot Engel: "Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech showed that there remain serious and urgent concerns about the nuclear negotiations with...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Associated Press

Not Present: List of Lawmakers Skipping Netanyahu’s Speech

Dozens of lawmakers, almost all Democrats, will miss Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. In separate statements,...

The complete transcript of Netanyahu’s address to Congress

By Terri Rupar March 3 at 12:01 PM ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/03/full-text-netanyahus-address-to-congress/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing a joint meeting of Congress; here is a complete transcript...

A Problem of Nuclear Proportions

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The proposed agreement with Iran is very bad. We should bear in mind that Iran’s leaders openly state that Israel must be destroyed,...

U.S. and Israel: The Manufactured Crisis

The crisis between the United States and Israel has been manufactured by the Obama administration. Building a crisis up or down is well within...
Uranium-enriching centrifuges on display in Tehran (Caren Firouz/Reuters)

Danger Ahead for Obama on Iran

The perverse genius of Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides (and their Republican handmaidens) is that they have managed to turn a moment in which...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

President Obama, listen to Netanyahu on Iran

It is extremely rare for any reasonable person to ever agree with anything Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says or does. However, one must admit,...
Professor Robert (Yisrael) Aumann | Photo credit: Uri Lenz

‘The world will appreciate our determination’

Nobel laureate Professor Robert (Yisrael) Aumann is convinced that both Iran and North Korea are making a mockery of the international community. "Iran in mocking...