photo credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel Those pesky in-laws always show up at the worst time, don’t they? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi on Wednesday called U.S. President Barack Obama an anti-Semite in an interview with Army Radio. “It’s not that Obama doesn’t like Bibi,” he referring to Netanyahu using his [...]
Netanyahu is trying to tell us something. Israel angered the US by announcing the move during a visit by Vice-President Joe Biden aimed at backing peace talks. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week asked Israel to show it was committed to Middle East peace efforts. But PM Benjamin Netanyahu rejected any limits on [...]
photo credit: The U.S. Army US/Israel relationship is getting a little less special. Certainly, it was thought, Israel would get the message. Israel didn’t. When Vice President Joe Biden was embarrassed by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government was building 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the administration reacted. But no one was more [...]