Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

• Friday, March 1st 2024 - 10:11 UTC

  Petro: Colombia no longer buying guns from “genocidal” Israel

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro insisted Thursday on dubbing Israel's military deployment in Gaza as “genocide” and ordered his administration to halt all purchases of weapons from that Middle East country, it was reported in Bogotá.

• Monday, February 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Israeli gov't outraged by Lula's likening war in Gaza to the Holocaust

  

  The Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned the Brazilian Ambassador after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva likened the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) response to the Oct. 7 attacks by the terrorist group Hamas to the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

• Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

  Milei: “Nazism today is disguised as Hamas”

  

  On the second day of his visit to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei said Wednesday that “Nazism today is disguised as Hamas.” On making these remarks from the local Holocaust Museum, the South American leader insisted that the terrorist group needed to free the hostages taken during the Oct. 7 raids.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

  Netanyahu praises Milei but Israel ups travel warnings for Argentina and Brazil

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday called Argentina's President-elect to invite him over to Jerusalem for the opening of the South American country's Embassy there after relocating it from Tel Aviv, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, November 9th 2023 - 11:31 UTC

  Spanish minister wants the world to isolate Israel

  

  After Bolivia severed diplomatic ties with Israel in the aftermath of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, Spain’s Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra said Wednesday that her country and the rest of the world should follow suit due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ”planned genocide” against the people of Palestine.

• Monday, November 6th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Netanyahu suspends minister who wanted to nuke Gaza

  

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday banned Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu indefinitely from all cabinet meetings following his statements hinting that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “an option” in the ongoing war after the Oct. 7 attacks by the terrorist group Hamas.

• Saturday, October 14th 2023 - 06:35 UTC

  The Hamas trap; the Arab world has abandoned Palestinians to their fate

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - If you are wondering why Hamas launched its all-out assault on Israel on Saturday, I wrote it right here last week. “The Arab world has basically abandoned the Palestinians to their fate, whatever that may be. Six Arab countries have established diplomatic ties with Israel and several more, including Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of doing so.”

• Monday, June 14th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Israel's new PM Naftali Bennett sworn in after 12 years of Netanyahu rule

  

  Naftali Bennett Sunday became Israel's 13th prime minister, thus bringing an end to 12 years of rule by Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Israeli opposition announces agreement which includes Arab party to replace Netanyahu as Prime Minister

  

  Just minutes after the deadline, opposition Israeli politicians notified President Reuven Rivlin they have reached an agreement to form what will be the first government involving someone of Arab descent.

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Truce between Israel and Hamas starts Friday at dawn

  

  After 11 days of fighting, Israel and the terrorist group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire starting at dawn on Friday, May 21, it was announced.