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Obama offers Netanyahu assurances over Iran

President Barack Obama, aiming to head off any premature Israeli strike on Iran, sought to assure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that the United States would always \”have Israel\’s back\” but said there was still time for diplomacy.

Barak to meet with Panetta in Washington

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is traveling to Washington to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, and other key U.S. security officials.

Netanyahu at AIPAC: ‘Israel is America’s indispensable ally’

Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke at AIPAC Policy Conference Monday night, reassuring the public that Israel remains the United States\’ \’indespensible ally\’, despite his rejection of U.S. President Obama\’s call for a peace deal based on 1967 borders last week.

Opinion: Is Obama good or bad for Israel?

During this latest episode of the long-running Israel-America reality show – which began Thursday with President Obama’s infamous “1967 lines” speech, followed by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defiant response at the White House the next day, and, finally, Obama’s more conciliatory address at the AIPAC convention on Sunday– I vacillated between my emotional “Sephardi hothead” side and my calmer “Ashkenazi tachlis” side.

Bibi sends Obama letter requesting Pollard release

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu wrote President Obama urging clemency for Jonathan Pollard. \”At the time of his arrest, Jonathan Pollard was acting as an agent of the Israeli government,\” Netanyahu wrote in his letter, sent Tuesday. \”Even though Israel was in no way directing its intelligence efforts against the United States, its actions were wrong and wholly unacceptable. Both Mr. Pollard and the Government of Israel have repeatedly expressed remorse for these actions, and Israel will continue to abide by its commitment that such wrongful actions will never be repeated.\” Netanyahu read his letter Tuesday evening to a Knesset plenum discussion. His letter, Israel\’s first formal request for Pollard\’s release, came a day after similar urgings from over 500 clergy in a letter to Obama.

Clergy, Bibi urge Pollard release

More than 500 clergy signed a letter to President Obama urging clemency for Jonathan Pollard. The letter was delivered a day before Prime Minister Benjanim Netanyahu reportedly sent a letter to Obama issuing a formal clemency request. Netanyahu was scheduled to read his letter Tuesday evening to a Knesset plenum discussion. \”After more than two and a half decades in prison, Mr. Pollard\’s health is declining,\” reads the letter sent Monday from rabbis representing all streams, as well as a number of leading Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. \”He has repeatedly expressed remorse for his actions, and by all accounts has served as a model inmate. Commuting his sentence to time served would be a wholly appropriate exercise of your power of clemency — as well as a matter of basic fairness and American justice. It would also represent a clear sense of compassion and reconciliation — a sign of hope much needed in today\’s world of tension and turmoil.\”

Survey: Jews back Obama, Bibi

A solid majority of American Jews support Barack Obama\’s and Benjamin Netanyahu\’s handling of U.S.-Israeli relations, according to a new survey.

Bibi: Rahm Emanuel is a “self-hating Jew”

At about 3:15 P.M. yesterday, the government\’s 100th day in office, political correspondents\’ beepers went off. In an unprecedented move, the Prime Minister\’s Bureau was inviting the correspondents to a press conference at the Knesset that was slated to begin in 15 minutes. This was the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s panicked, disproportionate response to the criticism senior Kadima politicians had leveled at him three hours earlier.

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