On Saturday, September 14, two oil refineries and other oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were hit and set ablaze by 18 drones and 7 cruise missiles, dramatically slashing Saudi Arabia’s oil production by half, from about 10 million to 5 million...
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Matthew Petti
Politics, Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu will probably go to jail if his political enemies don't save him.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the undefeated heavyweight champion of Israeli politics for at least a decade, has just...
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Israel’s prime minister says he will seek to lead a ruling coalition with his religious and nationalist allies, despite falling short of a parliamentary majority in Tuesday’s elections
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JERUSALEM — After a decade of mesmerizing world leaders, subduing his rivals and eking out dramatic election victories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future is suddenly in doubt.With near-final results from Israel’s election...
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On 17 September, Israel held a snap legislative vote to elect the 120 members of the 22nd Knesset. Judging from exit polls, the fight is far from over. Israeli observers have outlined several scenarios on how the election outcome may affect the...
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The village of Emmaus is the place where one of the major New Testament stories played out as the Son of God is thought to have appeared there after he was executed. Although the Bible contains several hints about the mysterious site, scientists...
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Five months ago, I wrote a piece for Middle East Eye on Israel’s parliamentary elections in which I argued that those elections change absolutely nothing for us Palestinians, the indigenous population of this land. And today, Israelis went to the...
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The second election in five months has failed to produce conclusive results.
During the late 10th century BCE, the emerging Edomite Kingdom of the southern Levant experienced a "leap" in technological advancement, according to a study released September 18, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting to hold on to his job after he fell short of winning a majority in the country’s national elections.
With most of the votes counted, his Likud Party is neck and neck with rival Benny...
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Helena CobbanOne is that the longstanding refusal of most members of the U.S. political elite (officials, legislators, think-tankers, corporate media, and so on) to even mention the fact of Israel’s own nuclear-weapons capabilities and to take...
With more than 90 percent of the vote counted in Israel, it appears that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition have again failed to gain a majority in Tuesday’s elections.
While it is still unclear who, if anyone, will be able to...
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Israel is facing political turmoil as Tuesday’s election remains too close to call. With 92% of the vote counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and ex-military chief Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party appear to be...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled his planned visit to the United Nations General Assembly due to the “political context” in Israel, sources in his office told AFP Wednesday. Initial results from Tuesday’s...
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JERUSALEM (Sputnik) – The Israeli opposition centrist Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) alliance is overtaking incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party by one seat with 93 percent of the votes counted, the Israeli Central...
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At first glance, estimates of the results of Tuesday's national election in Israel look like bad news for the right. The Likud Party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with its allied right-wing parties, failed to win an outright majority....
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Fed expected to cut rates today, for second time this year: WSJ
Saudi Arabia set to show evidence of Iran link in oil facility attacks: Reuters
Oil exports will continue as normal, Saudi Arabia says: Bloomberg
Israel election, second in 5 months,...
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Einat Gedalya-Lavy
Politics, Middle East
A key question is whether having a woman who is also secular, leading such a right-wing religious alliance for the first time, will affect Israeli voting patterns.
Israelis are heading to the polls in a...
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Israel’s two main political parties are deadlocked after national elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing an uphill battle to keep his job.
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According to preliminary data, Netanyahu’s Likud and Gantz’s Blue and White coalition have obtained 32 seats, which, together with minor parties, make up 56 seats for the right-wing bloc.
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