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Israel’s Arab party support Gantz for premiership
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Arab-dominated Joint List party moved yesterday to back the centre-left bloc of Benny Gantz, who is challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing alliance, to form a new government. With final results all but in, neither Gantz nor Netanyahu
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Gantz rejects Netanyahu’s olive branch
JERUSALEM: Israel’s weakened prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw his offer yesterday of a coalition with his strongest political rival swiftly rebuffed after failing to secure a governing majority in a tight election. Netanyahu’s surprise move was an abrupt change of
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Netanyahu to Gantz: Let’s form a unity govt
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his main rival, former general Benny Gantz, to join him in a broad, governing coalition after Israel’s election ended with no clear winner. A spokeswoman for Gantz, leader of the centrist Blue and White
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Liberal Jews cheer as Netanyahu’s grip on power weakens
WASHINGTON: As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu battled for his political survival on Wednesday after a tight election that left him short of a Knesset majority, progressive activists and liberal American Jews were delighted in the possibility of an end to
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Netanyahu battles for political life after decade in power
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a battle for political survival in a closely fought election today that could end his 10-year domination of national politics. Opinion polls put former armed forces chief Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White
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Israeli army injures 10 Palestinians
GAZA CITY: Ten Palestinians were injured yesterday evening as a result of the Israeli army assault on the weekly marches in the eastern Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry said in a brief statement
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Palestinians to Netanyahu: You will never break our will
JIFTLIK, West Bank: Palestinians tilling the fertile Jordan Valley said yesterday they have been rooted for generations to the West Bank land that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex, and they vowed never to give it up. “We
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Tlaib rejects West Bank visit, citing Israel’s ‘oppressive conditions’
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM: US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib yesterday rejected an offer by Israel to let her travel to the West Bank, the latest twist in a dispute drawing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu together against US Democrats ahead of elections in both
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Israel bars Ilham Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting the nation
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday barred US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from making a planned trip to Israel, shortly after US President Donald Trump called on his ally not to let them in. Tlaib and Omar,
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Dr M: World terrorism ends when Israel’s injustice is stopped
ANKARRA: The never ending Palestinian conflict caused by Israel is the main cause of terrorism, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, reported Turkish news agency, Anadolu. “The main thing that we think we should always stress is the causes
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