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The article reports that on March 22, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama helped Israel and Turkey reach a resolution to a dispute over Israel's 2010 raid on a Turkish ship aiding Palestinians in Gaza. It states that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan following Obama's participation in the reconciliation and both sides have agreed to dispatch envoys. Details of the 2010 attack on the Turkish flotilla ship known as the Mavi Marmara are provided.

The article reports on the efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in promoting a peace deal with the Palestinians on March 4, 2014 claiming it would enable Israel to tighten ties with its Arab neighbors and looks forward on issues like health, energy and education.

The article reports on the anticipation of U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for the unity at pro-Israel group as implied at their back-to-back speeches on March 4, 2013.

The article reports on the move of the Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send e-mail to its embassies and consulates around the world about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that he had no idea about the possibility of bilateral talks between the U.S. and Iran. It notes that the letter also advises all government employees not to speak publicly about the issue. It adds that three senior cabinet ministers had already commented in radio interviews before the email.

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of a crucial visit to the White House by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, that country's most powerful American advocates are mounting an extraordinary public campaign to pressure President Obama into hardening American policy toward Iran over its nuclear program. From the corridors of Congress to a gathering of nearly 14,000 American Jews and other supporters of Israel here this weekend, Mr. Obama is being buffeted by demands that the United States be more aggressive toward Iran and more forthright in supporting Israel in its own confrontation with Tehran. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, speaking days before a crucial meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, stiffened his pledge to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even as he warned Israel of the negative consequences of a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Seeking to reassure a close American ally that contends it has reached a moment of reckoning with Iran, Mr. Obama rejected suggestions that the United States was willing to try to contain a nuclear-armed Iran. He declared explicitly that his administration would use force -- a ''military component,'' as he put it -- only as a last resort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a bomb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- It is a truism of Middle East peacemaking that the United States is the pivotal player -- the most credible broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But with talks at a standstill, the Obama administration now finds itself on the sidelines, and Europe is emerging as the key diplomatic actor. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, have crisscrossed the Continent in recent weeks, trying to woo leaders who are weighing whether to support a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations in September. Neither man has visited Washington since the spring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort on Thursday to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting out a new starting point for negotiations on the region's most intractable problem. A day before the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. Obama declared that the prevailing borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war -- adjusted to some degree to account for Israeli settlements in the West Bank -- should be the basis of a deal. While the 1967 borders have long been viewed as the foundation for a peace agreement, Mr. Obama's formula of land swaps to compensate for disputed territory created a new benchmark for a diplomatic solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to the United States recently for another round of tense talks with the Obama administration, he got a decidedly warmer welcome from one of the rising Republican stars on Capitol Hill, Representative Eric Cantor, the incoming majority leader of the House. But while Mr. Cantor and other newly empowered Republicans are eager to promote themselves as Israel's staunchest defenders in Washington, the reconfigured American political landscape is a more complex and unpredictable backdrop for Middle East peacemaking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- A week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton worked out an agreement for a 90-day freeze on Israeli settlement construction, the deal remains hung up in Mr. Netanyahu's Cabinet, with Israeli and American officials haggling over details like how generous a subsidy the United States will give Israel for 20 advanced fighter aircraft. On Friday, the Obama administration confirmed publicly for the first time its readiness to give Israel written assurances on security issues. Mr. Netanyahu says he needs those guarantees to persuade members of his Cabinet to support the freeze, which is intended to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's criticism of new Israeli housing plans for East Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's even sharper retort, have thrown the Middle East peace talks into jeopardy, with the dispute over Jewish settlements looming as a seemingly insuperable hurdle. The Obama administration is struggling to restart direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, which stalled last month after the expiration of a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet Mr. Netanyahu in New York on Thursday, while Egypt sent two top officials to Washington to discuss ways to salvage the process. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is trying to cajole the Israeli government into a 60-day renewal of the freeze on Jewish settlement building by offering it security guarantees, ranging from military hardware to support for a long-term Israeli presence in the strategically sensitive Jordan Valley, according to lawmakers and other officials briefed on the proposals. But with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so far resisting the administration's entreaties, the United States is also weighing a fallback plan, officials said, that could involve reaching out to the Palestinians with a pledge to formally endorse one of their central demands for the borders of a future Palestinian state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators cleared the first hurdle on Thursday in their elusive quest for Middle East peace: they agreed to keep talking, two weeks from now in Egypt. But on a richly choreographed day of diplomacy, filled with solemn promises to tackle the tough issues dividing them, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders did not confront the one issue that could sink these talks in three weeks: whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will extend a moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce Friday that Israel and the Palestinians will return to direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months, delivering the Obama administration a small victory in its protracted effort to revive the Middle East peace process, two officials briefed on the situation said Thursday evening. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, have agreed to place a one-year time limit on the talks, these officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JERUSALEM -- Bowing to worldwide pressure and condemnation, Israel on Sunday formally announced an eased blockade of Gaza that could significantly expand the flow of goods overland into the impoverished coastal Palestinian enclave, isolated by the Israelis for three years. The announcement, made by the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, came three weeks after a deadly Israeli naval commando raid that thwarted a breach of the blockade by a flotilla of pro-Palestinian aid activists. That raid outraged much of the world and became a catalyst for a serious re-examination by Israel of its policy toward Gaza, which is governed by the militant anti-Israeli group Hamas and is home to 1.5 million Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, under extraordinary pressure from the Obama administration to curb the construction of Jewish housing in Jerusalem, served notice on Monday that his government would not yield easily to American demands. In a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group, Mr. Netanyahu reiterated that Israel had no plans to freeze housing in Jerusalem, the trigger for a recent dispute between Israel and the United States. He rejected the administration's contention that Israel's policies were impeding the peace process. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, under intense pressure from the United States to settle a diplomatic dispute over Jewish settlements, called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton late Thursday to propose what he called a package of ''mutual confidence building'' steps to be taken by Israelis and Palestinians to help restart peace negotiations. The Obama administration will ''review the prime minister's response and continue our discussions with both sides,'' Philip J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman, said in a statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- In a tense, 43-minute phone call on Friday morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel's plan for new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem sent a ''deeply negative signal'' about Israeli-American relations, and not just because it spoiled a visit by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Biden, in Israel this week to declare American support for its security, had already condemned the move as undermining the peace process. But Mrs. Clinton went a good deal further in her conversation with Mr. Netanyahu, saying it had harmed ''the bilateral relationship,'' according to the State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday announced his intention to halt new residential construction in West Bank settlements for 10 months as part of an effort to revive stalled Middle East peace talks. But a top Palestinian official said the plan was not enough, and the United States, which had sought a total freeze on settlement building, offered a mixed response. While the Obama administration praised Mr. Netanyahu's decision, it used the long-expected announcement to increase pressure on him over the terms of future negotiations with the Palestinians to create an independent state. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Struggling to stem protests from the Arab world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday reiterated that the Obama administration still wanted Israel to freeze construction of Jewish settlements, even if it regarded Israel's compromise offer as ''unprecedented.'' Arab officials expressed alarm that the United States seemed to be easing pressure on Israel after Mrs. Clinton said in Jerusalem on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal of restrained settlement building was better than anything previous Israeli governments had offered. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After the much anticipated White House meeting on Monday between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, one question being asked in diplomatic circles is this: Did Mr. Obama give up more than he got? The meeting between the two, their first as leaders, was mainly an exercise in breaking the ice. But at the early stages of a relationship between the nations' leaders that is likely to be more strained than it was during the Bush years, their dealings are being analyzed for signs of who has the upper hand. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the designation by U.S. President Donald Trump of the Iranian military arm, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. Topics covered include the imposition of economic and travel sanctions to the arm and its allies, the opposition by of Trump's national security officials to the designation fearing it could incite retaliation, and how the announcement is tied to the re-election campaign of Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.