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Hungary announces ICC withdrawal as Netanyahu visits

Hungary on Thursday said it will quit the International Criminal Court, just as prime minister Viktor Orban hosted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the tribunal has accused of war crimes in Gaza.

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Freeing Gaza… from the Palestinians

ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that Israel will carry out Trump’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, saying the following on Sunday about ‘the final stage’ of his agenda:..

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Israel PM picks new security chief, defying legal challenge

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked former navy commander Eli Sharvit to head the domestic security agency, his office said on Monday, despite the supreme court freezing the incumbent’s dismissal....

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Israel says hostage body returned by Hamas not Bibas mother

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would ensure ‘Hamas pays the full price’ for failing to hand over Israeli mother Shiri Bibas after the militant group released a body Israel said was not hers....

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Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing

PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...

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TRUMP’S GAZA ‘RIVIERA’ PROPOSAL: A reckless real estate fantasy

ON FEBRUARY 4, in a press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump unveiled a plan as audacious as it is alarming: the United States would ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip, forcibly displace its 1.8 million Palestinian residents and redevelop the territory into a luxury enclave he dubbed ‘the Riviera of the...

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Criminal probe launched into Israel PM’s wife

Israeli police are conducting a criminal investigation into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the office of the state attorney said in a letter made public on Sunday...

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Bitter harvests: Gaza ceasefire

TWINNING the terms ‘ceasefire’ and ‘Gaza’ seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel’s hand, and Israeli prime minister...

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Blinded to Syria

I DO not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend...

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Straws in Syrian whirlwind

THE pendulum of zealotry almost always ushers in intellectual subterfuge in its wake. The lightning, if not spontaneous, takeover of Damascus by mediaeval militias is being predictably applauded by Western journalists as an overthrow of a 50-year-old family dictatorship...

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Israeli snipers shoot Palestinians for sport

ISRAEL’S attempts to excuse the mass murder of civilians in Gaza as ‘collateral damage’ fall apart in the face of mounting evidence that it employs deliberate sniper attacks. The targeted killing of unarmed people — using quadcopter drones and professional snipers — has restricted access to essential medical care, food, and water, exposing a chilling reality behind the occupation army’s actions...

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ICC warrant: accountability or polarisation

THE International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on November 21 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the ongoing Gaza conflict. This unprecedented move by the Hague-based court has sent...

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Why Israel’s defeat is imminent

THE paradoxical phrase, ‘running away forward’ is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now...

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ICC warrant for Netanyahu not enough: Khamenei

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a ‘death sentence’...

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Erdogan hails ICC warrants for Netanyahu

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday praised the ‘courageous decision’ of the International Criminal Court to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

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Netanyahu warrant also indicts US complicity

IT’S official now. America’s closest ally, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one accorded more than 50 standing ovations in Congress just months ago, is under indictment by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes. America must take note: the US government is complicit in Netanyahu’s war crimes and...

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Ireland would arrest Netanyahu, says PM

Benjamin Netanyahu would be detained if he arrives in Ireland, prime minister Simon Harris said on Friday after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant.

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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Deif

The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif.

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Crippling UNRWA

THE man has a cheek.  Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he thinks of the Palestinians), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been keeping busy on further depriving access and assistance to those in Gaza and the West Bank...

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Israel challenges ICC arrest request for Netanyahu

Israel said on Friday it had submitted an ‘official challenge’ to a request from the International Criminal Court prosecutor for an arrest warrant against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Huthis missile hits central Israel in rare attack

A Yemeni rebel missile triggered a rush to shelters in central Israel on Sunday, a rare incident that caused no injuries but again added to regional tensions nearly a year into the Gaza war...

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Netanyahu trying to thwart Gaza truce: Hamas

Hamas on Thursday accused Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to ‘thwart’ a Gaza truce deal, after the Israeli premier said the Palestinian militant group has ‘rejected everything’ in negotiations...

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Time for a Gaza truce deal: US

The United States said on Tuesday it was time to ‘finalise’ a deal between Israel and Hamas to end the Gaza war, after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to bow to pressure...

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Israelis go on strike for Gaza deal after hostage deaths

Strike action brought parts of Israel to a halt on Monday in a bid to raise pressure on the government to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, after the military recovered the bodies of six captives that the health ministry said had been ‘murdered’ by Hamas...

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