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The article focuses on a minister-level meeting between Benny Gantz, a political rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and David Cameron, Britain's foreign secretary, discussing the need for Israel to do more to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza amid the Israeli-Hamas war.

The article argues that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an unlikely leader for an Israel on the brink of war given his risk aversion, military training and resistance to military entanglements. It discusses Netanyahu's preference for targeted military airstrikes and special operations and the potential of Israel to deal with the destructive capacity of the militant group Hamas and Palestinian tensions. It looks back at Israeli history showing the political risks of military action.

The article focuses on a key intermediary for U.S.-Israel relations, who, despite being an ally of Prime Minister Netanyahu, is viewed with caution by Democrats.

The article focuses on the potential shift in the proposed peace plan for Israelis and Palestinians as of June 2019. Topics covered include the diplomatic mission of presidential son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner in Israel, the implication of the failure of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a governing coalition for the peace plan, and U.S. President Donald Trump's support for Netanyahu.

The article focuses on the support of U.S. President Donald Trump to the plan of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank. Topics covered include the political cover and legitimacy that Trump has provided for Netanyahu, the policy changes towards Israel that Trump has initiated that make the peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians more unattainable, and the extent to which Trump has become an enabler to Netanyahu.

The article reports on the declaration by U.S. President Donald Trump in a March 2019 tweet of Israel's authority in the long disputed Golan Heights, reversing the U.S.' decades-long policy in the Middle East. Also cited are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection bid, the United Nations' (UN) condemnation of Israel's Golan Heights occupation since 1967, and the claims by several Palestinian officials like Saeb Erekat that the declaration may result in destabilisation and war.

The article reports on the claims made by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran entered a nuclear deal under false pretenses, which consequently divided Europe and the U.S. on the merits of the nuclear deal. Topics discussed are treat from U.S. President Donald Trump to scrap the deal, the scope of Iran's alleged deceit about its nuclear weapons program, and the intention of Israel to force the United Nations (UN) to demand inspections of nuclear sites in Iran.

The article reports that president Donald Trump has planned to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel and move the American Embassy upending several decades of American foreign policy and destroying his efforts to breaker peace between Israel and Palestinians. Topics include plans to sign a national security waiver to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv, policy change explained to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and joint statement issued by Palestinian and Islamic group.

The article discusses the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama's condemnation of an illegal Israeli settlement plan in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, including Obama's perspective that the settlement hinders Israel-Palestinian peace efforts. An overview of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strategic timing of announcing illegal settlement plans is provided.

The article reports that the U.S. President Donald Trump have praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu for controling the authority at the Golan Heights in Israel.

The article reports that president Donald Trump will be presenting peace plan for Israel and Palestinians and has favored solution of the conflicts and mentions meeting of president with the prime minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu.

The article reports on a conflict between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald J. Trump following a bribery case against Netanyahu, and mentions that Trump has not rallied publicly to the Israeli leader's defense.

The article reports on trip of presidential adviser Jared Kushner to Israel for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, and comments from Sean Spicer of the White House, on the trip.

The article reports on the absence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump at the meeting of pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) which spoke to fluidity of relationship between the two nations.

The article reports that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is being questioned by the police in a murky bribery, thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for taking his stand against anti-Semitism during the president's speech before Congress.

The article reports that the resignation of Michael T. Flynn, National Security Adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump, might affect the visit of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the country to meet Trump on February 15, 2017.

The article reports on several politicians who attended the funeral for Shimon Peres, former president and prime minister of Israel, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, U.S. President Barack Obama, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The article discusses the past relationship between Israel and U.S. during the tenure of U.S. President Obama and Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu and states that relationship was bitter as Israel opposed U.S. approved Iran nuclear treaty and its support for restarting Palestinian negotiations.

The article talks about US president Barack Obama's visit to New York after the bombing of a Manhattan street, his meeting with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu & China's premier Xi Jinping & the attendance of a fundraiser event for the US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The article discusses the possibility that the United States will release Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American who was sentenced to life in prison for serving as a spy for Israel, as of March 31, 2014. Topics addressed include the role of Pollard's potential release in U.S. efforts to encourage peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, popular support for Pollard's release in Israel, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Benyamin) Netanyahu's advocacy for Pollard's release.

The article discusses U.S. diplomacy with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expected to begin in September or October 2013 regarding Iran's alleged development of nuclear weapons, focusing on measures the U.S. is taking to ease tensions with Israel. Topics include possible negotiations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Rouhani, comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the 2013 United Nations General Assembly, to be attended by all three political leaders.

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 offers information on the meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that discusses the impact of the Sunni jihadist extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Middle East region.

The article reports on the tension between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israel Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu after Obama released his fixed ideas on articulating an alternative approach if Netanyahu fails to consider the possibility of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

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 meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Banjamin Netanyahu in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 2014 discussing litany of familiar problems and the Ukrainian crisis that threatens American policies throughout the Middle East.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to plunge back his efforts into the Middle East peacemaking process by starting an urgent appeal to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The article reports on the meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 30, 2013 to discuss the issue of curbing the nuclear weapon program of Iran.

The article reports on the effort of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the diplomatic offensive by Iran, and warn the U.S. that a nuclear deal with the Iranian government could be a trap like the one set by North Korea in 2005.

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 impact of the defeat of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his re-reelection bid on his relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama.

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 -- With Israel warning of a possible military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, President Obama urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday to give diplomacy and economic sanctions a chance to work before resorting to military action. The meeting, held in a charged atmosphere of election-year politics and a deepening confrontation with Tehran, was nevertheless ''friendly, straightforward, and serious,'' a White House official said. But it did not resolve basic differences between the two leaders over how to deal with the Iranian threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 -- After three weeks of fruitless haggling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Obama administration has given up its effort to persuade the Israeli government to freeze construction of Jewish settlements for 90 days, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The decision leaves Middle East peace talks in flux, with the Palestinians refusing to resume direct negotiations absent a moratorium, and the United States struggling to find another formula to bring them back to the table. It is another setback in what has proved to be a star-crossed campaign by President Obama. [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]

JERUSALEM -- The pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to push for a new, one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the West Bank represents a bet by the Israelis and the Americans that enough can be accomplished so that the Palestinians will not abandon peace talks even after the freeze ends. But the freeze proposal, which was reached in intensive negotiations with the United States and still needs Israeli government approval -- Mr. Netanyahu presented it to his cabinet on Sunday -- carries huge risks for all sides. Even before the cabinet began to consider it, both the Israeli right and the Palestinian leadership raised strong objections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has agreed to push his cabinet to freeze most construction on settlements in the West Bank for 90 days to break an impasse in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, an official briefed on talks between the United States and Israel said Saturday evening. In return, the Obama administration has offered Israel a package of security incentives and fighter jets worth $3 billion that would be contingent on the signing of a peace agreement, the official said. The United States would also block any moves in the United Nations Security Council that would try to shape a final peace agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- In a marathon day of meetings in New York on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton worked to salvage peace negotiations that stalled last month over Israel's refusal to extend a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. Neither American nor Israeli officials offered details of the talks, although a blandly worded joint statement issued afterward made clear that there had been no breakthroughs. [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]

CORRECTION APPENDED AMMAN, Jordan -- After two days of difficult peace negotiations with Israel over the issue of Jewish settlements, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, sounded a modestly positive note on Thursday, declaring that he saw no alternative but to keep talking. The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not extend a partial moratorium on the construction of settlements, something he has refused to do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she believed the Israelis and Palestinians could work out a deal on Jewish settlements, leaving open the possibility that their fledgling peace talks could go forward even without a full extension of Israel's moratorium on settlement construction. Speaking to reporters during her flight to Sharm el Sheik, the Egyptian resort where talks will resume Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton also repeated President Obama's call for Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to extend the moratorium, scheduled to expire on Sept. 26. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has threatened to quit the negotiations if the temporary ban is not extended. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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]