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- ‘Netanyahu goes to Putin to show Israeli voters: ‘I’m an important world leader’
Vladimir Putin’s upcoming talks with Benjamin Netanyahu in Sochi are more important for the Israeli PM’s fight for re-election, but comparing notes with a key Middle Eastern player is also good for Russia, experts have told RT.Sep 11, 2019 20:44World News - Palestinians love living under occupation, ex-IDF chief declares, recycling apartheid talking pointFormer IDF chief and Netanyahu challenger Benny Gantz bragged that Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank are actually better off than their counterparts in Arab countries, echoing apartheid South Africa.Sep 11, 2019 03:52World News
- Abbas says all agreements with Israel OVER if Palestinian land annexedPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that all agreements signed with Israel will end if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes good on his promise to annex the West Bank’s Jordan Valley.Sep 10, 2019 20:22World News
- Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley would be the ‘death of the two state solution’ – George GallowayIf Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu goes through with his promise to annex the Jordan Valley, he would be killing the two-state solution for domestic electoral gain, says former British MP and RT contributor George Galloway.Sep 10, 2019 17:02World News
- Netanyahu vows to annex West Bank’s Jordan Valley after Israeli electionIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that if reelected, he will annex the Jordan Valley, part of the occupied West Bank, and home to Israeli settlements.Sep 10, 2019 15:32World News
- Collision course with Israel? Palestinian Authority claims sovereignty over ENTIRE West BankThe Palestinian Authority has announced that it will cease to recognize the division of the West Bank into three areas of differing Israeli and Palestinian control, and will lay claim to the entire territory.Aug 31, 2019 21:10World News
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