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JERUSALEM: Click on the Russian-language version of the campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, and up pops a picture of the candidate with Barack Obama. On the Hebrew version, Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere. The colors, the fonts, the icons for donating and volunteering, the use of embedded video, and the social networking Facebook-type options — including Twitter, which hardly exists in Israel — all reflect a conscious effort by the Netanyahu campaign to learn from the Obama success.

A Contribution by Benjamin Netanyahu: Lessons from the Sudetenlandby Benjamin Netanyahu History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[Editor's Note: Forty-nine years ago last month, the nation Israel was reestablished in the Land. Thirty years ago this month, as a result of the famed Six Day War, Israel regained Biblical Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan Heights. Although these areas were part of the original mandated land, and are undeniably essential for Israel's defense, it has become strangely "politically correct" to assume that peace in the Middle East is dependent upon...

If Likud wins in Israel, how badly will the two new leaders of the alliance clash? Barack Obama spent the first week after being elected president of the United States planning the next four years. Yet, even though the office is occupied by somebody else until January, the pundits are already predicting the next administration's trouble spots. At the top of the list is the outcome of the Israeli elections scheduled for this winter. If Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu is sent back to the prime minister's office, we are told, a major conflict with the Obama White House is...

Israel cannot elect Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu prime minister after the United States voted for president-elect Barack Obama, because of the differences in their views on the Middle East conflict and economic issues, Labor and Kadima MKs charged Wednesday in the wake of Obama's victory. Netanyahu made a point of being the first Israeli politician to congratulate Obama, sending him a telegram telling him that he was "looking forward to working closely with him to take a fresh look at the problems of the region and to find new ideas to help build a better and hopeful future for all...

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said that the recent peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is enough to get a final status agreement signed, but recognized that the outgoing Israeli leader does not have the ability to implement the proposal. “We could have peace in two days” if Olmert’s offer could be implemented, Abbas told a group of Muslim clerics at the tail end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

"The government took Ze'ev Jabotinsky out of the school textbooks and inserted the Nakba [the Palestinian "disaster" of Israel's founding] instead," opposition leader and Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday during a special Knesset session called during the legislature's summer recess. Netanyahu was referring to the decision by Education Minister Yuli Tamir (Labor) to remove the writings of Jabotinsky from the curriculum. Jabotinsky (1880-1940) founded the Zionism revisionist movement, the precursor to the Likud Party. He also helped form the British army's Jewish Legion during World War I, and the Irgun (IZL) underground movement. In addition, he was an author,...

Let’s face it, there is going to be a Declaration of Principles agreed to, if not this year, early next year. The INSS article Olmert’s Legacy in the Occupied Territories: Strengthening the Settlement Blocs, lays it out. 1. Olmert, with tacit acceptance by the US and the EU, is expanding settlement blocks west of the fence. 2. The D of P will agree that the fence will become the border with minor exceptions. 3. Thereafter Israel will pass a law offering compensation to settlers east of the fence to move the settlement blocks. 4 Building in these blocks will accelerate...

On Thursday, after a Qassam rocket was fired at Israel from Gaza, Israel announced it was closing the crossings into Gaza. The Qassam was the sixth (along with four mortars) fired since the “ceasefire” began on June 19. Israel’s announcement of a closing of the crossings was its seventh since that time. On Friday, Hamas claimed the closing was a breach of the ceasefire agreement by Israel and announced that in reprisal it was suspending the talks on a deal for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas two years ago. On Sunday, Israel announced it was reopening the...

"Jerusalem will never be divided," Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu told French President Nicolas Sarkozy when the two met on Tuesday morning. Only a united Jerusalem would "make freedom of religion possible for people of all religions in the city," Netanyahu said.

Israeli Opposition leader, Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu sounded spitting mad Thursday at the Olmert government’s agreeing to a ceasefire with the Gaza-controlling Hamas terrorist organization. The terrorists got a period of quiet in which to regroup and rearm in readiness for the next round of terrorist attacks, he said. In exchange, Israel “got nothing.”

Likud Party Chairman and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu called for early elections Monday, and said Prime Minister Olmert and the current government have no mandate to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority. "This government has no mandate to negotiate the borders of this country or to divide its capital city," he told a meeting of the Likud Knesset faction. "The government must go back to the people and allow the nation to choose its leadership once again." Netanyahu cited five reasons that Olmert should step down, including failures in the Second Lebanon War, ongoing rocket attacks on Israel, failures in the...

Benjamin Netanyahu, the former and possibly future prime minister of Israel, said the “civilized community of nations” must not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. "This is not merely a local problem, this is a global problem. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons everything we have been talking about will pale in comparison," Netanyahu said on Wednesday. "Their goals are unlimited. Whatever successes they have had so far, they don't intend to stop. The militant Shiites in Iran are openly boasting that they are racing to develop nuclear weapons with the explicit announced goal of wiping Israel off the face of...

13 Nissan 5768, April 18, '08 Published: 04/18/08, 9:39 AM Netanyahu Says Any Abbas-Olmert Agreement Will be Voided by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Likud Chairman and former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says any agreement reached between PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is null and void. Widely expected to be the next prime minister, Netanyahu said he would not honor an agreement reached between Fatah chief Abbas and Olmert – who are currently engaged in frantic negotiations on final status issues. The nature of the hurried negotiations with the questionably-sovereign head of a fractured PA is to reach...

On Sunday, Likud opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu described Christian Zionists as Israel’s best friends: This is a friendship of the heart, a friendship of common roots, and a friendship of common civilization. The comments came at an Evangelical event in Jerusalem organized by the San Antonio, Texas-based Christians United for Israel and led by evangelical Pastor John Hagee. There’s always a lot of grumbling about the Jewish-Evangelical alliance in support of Israel.

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has not been invited to meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her upcoming trip to Israel, sources close to Netanyahu said Tuesday, the Jerusalem Post reported. Rice is set to with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and her dear confidante, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, but she apparently will not find time to meet with the head of the opposition, typically part of the standard protocol when diplomats visit Israel. Netanyahu's associates said they were not surprised or upset by the snub, "because her visit was intended to promote the Annapolis...

(IsraelNN.com) US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will break with standard protocol and will not meet with Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu during her upcoming visit to the region, apparently as punishment for Netanyahu's recent call to build up the so-called E-1 corridor between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim. The United States opposes the plan. The snub is the second this year from senior US figures for Netanyahu. In January President George W. Bush refused to meet with the Likud chairman until a public outcry forced him to schedule time with the Opposition Leader. Rice is due to visit the region in...

U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) (L) looks on as U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) places a note in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City March 19, 2008. McCain came to Israel on Tuesday as part of a fact-finding tour of the Middle East which could also boost his popularity among American Jewish voters. REUTERS/Peter Andrews (JERUSALEM)My advice was to wear a black suede kippah, but I forgot about possible peer pressure from Lieberman. U.S. Sen. John McCain, center, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, far left, arrive at the Western...

One of this year's nominees for Israeli TV's "Man of the Year in Politics" award doesn't speak Hebrew. He has vast wealth and a shady past. He was once a circus worker. He isn't even a politician, at least not yet. But over the past several years Arcadi Gaydamak, an enigmatic Russian-Israeli billionaire, has managed to become a widely influential figure in Israel. And he is now at the center of a right-wing political alliance - featuring Israeli über-hawk Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu - that could dramatically influence the country's direction. If the rising alliance takes power in the next election,...

Before leaving the Middle East, Bush is reported to have promised Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would join Israel in a nuclear strike on Iran. In Israel, there is talk of a "...a rain of missiles" for which Israelis must prepare now. Speaking on radio as part of a military propaganda offensive, retired general Udi Shani said: "The next war will see a massive use of ballistic weapons against the whole of Israeli territory." Shani was tasked recently with drawing up a report on the way the military authorities operated during Israel's summer war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. During that...

Israel is being led by an unfit and incompetent prime minister, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday, one day after the release of the Winograd report on the failures of the government and the military during the Second Lebanon War. Netanyahu's Likud party convened a meeting in Tel Aviv Thursday to discuss the implications of the damning report. Netanyahu spoke at a press conference held after the meeting, saying that Defense Minister Ehud Barak knows that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is unfit to lead, and that the public expects him to fulfill his promise and prevent the current leadership from...

IsraelNN.com) Avigdor Lieberman, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is a critical part of Olmert's coalition, will meet with the Prime Minister on Tuesday - and is likely to announce his party's departure from the government on Wednesday. Signs of Lieberman's discontent have been rife over the past two days. They include, most notably, the beginning of PA-Israel final-status negotiations today (Monday), and Olmert's statement on Sunday that the continued existence of the unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria "is a disgrace." 78 - 23= 55, or Less Than Half Olmert's 78-member coalition is dependent on the continued presence of the 11...

(IsraelNN.com) U.S. President George W. Bush has declined to meet with former Prime Minister and current Likud Opposition Leader MK Binyamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to Israel, slated to begin on Wednesday, according to the Jerusalem Post. Sources in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party quoted in the report offered this explanation: “At the White House, they think [Mr. Netanyahu] is a liar because of his behavior when he was prime minister.” Outraged Likud officials accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of sabotaging what would normally be a routine meeting between a visiting U.S. President and an Israeli Opposition Leader,...

Lessons from the Sudetenland, by Benjamin Netanyahu History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[Editor's Note: Forty-nine years ago last month, the nation Israel was reestablished in the Land. Thirty years ago this month, as a result of the famed Six Day War, Israel regained Biblical Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan Heights. Although these areas were part of the original mandated land, and are undeniably essential for Israel's defense, it has become strangely "politically correct" to assume that peace in the Middle East is dependent upon their yielding these lands-the so-called...

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) on Sunday slammed the government's decision making process prior to the Annapolis peace conference, calling it "political blindness." "Everybody wants peace, but we want a real peace and that requires insisting on the safety of Israeli citizens and insisting on reciprocality. "This is a very weak government, which made too many concessions going into the summit," said Netanyahu, who spoke at the Zeev Jabotinsky awards ceremony. "The government has released hundreds of prisoners and has already given the Palestinians weapons… They are politically blind. If this is how they start off, who knows were...

In what appears to be the first confirmation by a senior politician of foreign media reports of an Israeli operation in Syria two weeks ago, opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu told Channel One television last night that he was party to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision. In an interview with Channel One news anchor Haim Yavin, Netanyahu said that he was briefed on Olmert's decision to carry out an operation in Syria, gave him his backing and congratulated him. "When the prime minister takes action in important and necessary matters, and generally when the government is doing things for the...

A poll published Tuesday indicating that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's public support is gradually returning to life caused concern in Likud and Labor circles, as well as internal criticism of Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor chairman Ehud Barak. The Dahaf Institute poll in Yediot Aharonot found that 35 percent of respondents approved of Olmert's performance as prime minister while 63% disapproved. Olmert's popularity rose from 25% two weeks ago, before September 6's reported Israel Air Force attack on nuclear installations in Syria. Twenty percent of those surveyed said their opinion of Olmert had improved as a result of the...

Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu called the decision to go to war last summer hasty in his testimony to the Winograd Committee, which was released on Sunday. The Likud Chairman said that he spoke with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the beginning of the Second Lebanon War and was surprised to hear that reserve forces had not yet been drafted. "Every private who has experienced a battle knows that the key to victory is to deploy a secondary force near the enemy's weak points," Netanyahu told the committee charged with investigating the war. "Every day that passed there was no reserve...

Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu slammed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the concessions he has been proposing to the Palestinians, echoing criticism within Olmert's own party, Kadima, according to Israel National News. Netanyahu stressed that "there is simply no Palestinian partner" with whom to negotiate, reiterating a point that many Mideast experts have confirmed. A recent report released stated that Hamas is just as strong as Fatah in the West Bank, only more driven. "This government just gives and gives and receives nothing - and this will place us in dangers much greater than we have known before, as we see...

22 Elul 5767, September 5, '07 Netanyahu Attacks Olmert's Plan to "Give Without Receiving" by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Speaking at a special mid-recess Knesset session Tuesday morning, Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu spoke of the dangers of Prime Minister Olmert's intention to give away most of Judea and Samaria in a new diplomatic initiative being negotiated with Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "We keep hearing about an international summit in November in which we will more or less promise to give away more land in another unilateral withdrawal," Netanyahu said. "It wasn't enough that we retreated in...

(IsraelNN.com) The latest poll on who is best suited to be Prime Minister leaves Likud chairman Knesset Member Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu in first place, but puts Labor party chairman Ehud Barak a close second. The survey commissioned for Voice of Israel government radio also reveals that Barak is highly favored by Kadima voters. Netanyahu received 32 percent support, two points more than Barak, but one-third of the respondents rejected both leaders. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received only five percent backing. Given a choice between Kadima's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Barak and MK Netanyahu, the Likud chairman received support from 29...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won re-election as leader of the right-wing Likud party. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's bureau, some analysts describe it as a limited victory because of a respectable showing by a far-right wing opponent. (PHOTO) Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 14 Aug 2007 Hawkish opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu won the chairmanship of his Likud party by a landslide, capturing 73 percent of the vote. He said the next stop is the prime minister's office. He told Israel Radio that his election gives the entire nation hope for a future that is...

JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) -- Benjamin Netanyahu swept the race to lead Israel's hardline Likud Party, a party official said, boosting his ambitions to reclaim the country's premiership. Netanyahu, crowned in recent polls as the front-runner for Israel's top job, faced off against far-right West Bank settler Moshe Feiglin, who would bar Arabs from Israel's parliament and favors their emigration. A partial tally gave Netanyahu 73 percent of the vote to Feiglin's 22 percent, party executive director Gad Arieli said. World Likud Party Chairman Danny Danon trailed with 4 percent. While a Netanyahu victory had been all but assured, a strong...

A Contribution by Benjamin Netanyahu: Lessons from the Sudetenland History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[Editor's Note: Forty-nine years ago last month, the nation Israel was reestablished in the Land. Thirty years ago this month, as a result of the famed Six Day War, Israel regained Biblical Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan Heights. Although these areas were part of the original mandated land, and are undeniably essential for Israel's defense, it has become strangely "politically correct" to assume that peace in the Middle East is dependent upon their yielding...

Former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who is set to be re-elected as head of Israel's right-wing Likud party on Tuesday, is a media-savvy arch-hawk determined to move back to the political centre stage. Netanyahu was expected to sweep to victory during a Likud primary with at least 70 percent of the vote, according to internal opinion polls, in a contest against two other candidates. -snip- Bibi, as Netanyahu is widely known in Israel, is hoping to ride a wave of dissapointment with the ruling Kadima party over scandals and last year's Lebanon war back to the top of the Israeli political...

Netanyahu Calls to Settle Judea, Samaria (IsraelNN.com) Likud head Binyamin Netanyahu visited Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria recently as part of his primaries campaign. Netanyahu expressed support of Jewish families in the area, saying that Israel must maintain a presence in all of Judea and Samaria in order to prevent the area from falling to Hamas. He praised local farmers for being “true capitalists” as well. During his visit Netanyahu planted a tree in the town of Kida, near Shilo. The symbolic act was seen by many as significant because the town has not yet received government approval. Despite...

"U.S. Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) meets with Israel's Likud Party leader and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 21, 2007. "

Likud leader says Israel needs Egypt and Jordan to train Palestinian security forces to impose rule of law in Palestinian territories, a step that will help embolden Palestinian moderates like Abbas. Israel needs the help of Jordan and Egypt to bolster moderate forces in the Palestinian Authority against the emboldened Hamas group, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday. Speaking to CNN, Netanyahu said that strengthening President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction with the help of moderate Arab countries could be the key to solving the Middle East conflict. "I think ultimately, to resolve the Palestinian problem we'll have to have a...

Neil Cavuto showed a quote from Jimmy Carter saying the US and Fatah are committing a criminal act by opposing Hamas. What do most Israeli's think about Jimmy Carter? He gets a smirk.. there's an awkward pause... "I think they view him as an odd little man" :O

Opposition leader says PA crisis result of weak Israeli policies, calls on government to isolate Gaza. Asked about Barak as defense minister, he says, 'I'll be sleeping much better when I know the government's policy has changed' "I warned this would happen. Before the last elections and my warnings were ignored. I said then that Hamastan would rise into existence and it has done just that," opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu told Ynet on Sunday as he follows the situation in the Palestinian Authority and particularly in Gaza. Netanyahu said he saw a direct link between Israel's disengagement from Gaza in...

IsraelNN.com) Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu says we must learn the lessons from the Hamas takeover of Gaza, and ensure that it doesn't happen in Judea and Samaria. Speaking with government-run Voice of Israel Radio, Netanyahu said, "We must understand the dangers: Every piece of land that we unilaterally evacuate, becomes a place where rockets are deployed against us. We must ensure that what is happening in Gaza doesn't reach Judea and Samaria as well. Unilateral withdrawals are not the answer. We said in the past that the retreat from Gush Katif would lead to increased terrorism and arms-smuggling, and we...

Netanyahu said he saw a direct link between Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and the current situation there. "What we're seeing in Gaza is the inevitable result of our weak, defeatist policies and withdrawal. Every peace of land we evacuate is seized by radical Islam backed by Iran and rockets are launched from there against us," he noted. "The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon created "Hizbullahstan" - the first Iranian base in northern Israel, and now we got "Hamastan" - the second Iranian base in southern Israel." "This is a result of an erroneous policy of Israel's leaders, or actually...

Netanyahu: As long as we stay in West Bank we're unbeatable 'Automatic assumption of withdrawal to 1967 borders is unjustified, immoral and very dangerous for the State of Israel,' opposition leader tells conference marking Six Day War's 40th anniversary Lilach Shoval Published: 06.04.07, 14:51 / Israel News "Since the Six Day War the Arab world has been trying to get us off the mountains of Judea and Samaria, but as long as we are on this mountain, we are unbeatable," opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. Speaking at a conference held in the capital by the Jerusalem Center for Public...

NEW YORK -- Mr. Netanyahu proposes a third way. The Iranian regime, he argues, is economically vulnerable. He is in America to urge state and local pension funds to divest from foreign companies that do business in Iran. "This could be very effective," he tells me, "because Iran is in desperate need of new investments for its sagging oil industry. It's running unemployment to a rate of close to 20%, and Ahmadinejad is being criticized from rivals within and outside the regime for failing to deliver on economic problems." Divestment "could stop Iran dead in its tracks," Mr. Netanyahu argues....

Netanyahu: Shut off Gaza's water, electricityOpposition leader demands action as military limits response to rocket attacks Posted: May 18, 200712:38 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – Israel should shut off the Gaza Strip's electricity and water and impose a blockage of the territory until the Palestinians cease the regular firing of rockets into the Jewish state, former prime minister and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday. "The government can do a lot to protect its people," said Netanyahu at a meeting of his Likud party. "It could evacuate whomever necessary, enact a closure on the Gaza Strip, stop providing...

One-in-four Israelis would pick Benjamin Netanyahu as their head of government, according to a poll by Dialog released by Haaretz. 26 per cent of respondents would like the Likud leader to become prime minister again. Shimon Peres of the Kadima party is second with 11 per cent, followed by fellow party member and current foreign affairs minister Tzipi Livni with 10 per cent, former prime minister Ehud Barak of the Labour party with six per cent, current prime minister Ehud Olmert also with six per cent, and Labour’s Ami Ayalon with five per cent. In March 2006, Israeli voters renewed...

(IsraelNN.com) Likud Chairman and head of the Opposition Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to abandon his wait-and-see strategy and to launch a public campaign for toppling Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. In a rally held Tuesday at the Likud headquarters building 'Metzudat Ze'ev' in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu reportedly told his supporters "this government has to go home and we need to start acting to make this happen." He told them to begin holding weekly protest vigils every Friday in busy intersections throughout Israel as well as street demonstrations. "The slogan is simple," he said: "'You've Failed – Go Home'." According to...

If elections were held today, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would suffer a resounding defeat at the hands of a number of political rivals, according to a Channel 10 poll broadcast Wednesday. When asked who would be their preferred prime ministerial candidate, 30 percent of those polled said Netanyahu, while 18 percent picked Labor MK Ami Ayalon. Former prime minister Ehud Barak (Labor) came in third with 12 percent, followed by Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman (7 percent), Olmert (3 percent) and Defense Minister Amir Peretz (1 percent). According to the poll, 57 percent of Israelis say they want immediate elections,...

Like many today, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu has made the obvious connection between Nazi Germany of the 30’s and Jihadist Iran of today. Speaking to the delegates of the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, Natanyahu declared repeatedly, “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany.” Incredibly, the reported response of the crowd was tepid. At best he was largely damned with faint praise. Is it possible that many in the modern secular/liberal Jewish community in America are in the same state of denial as many of the Jews were in Germany in the 30’s? “It’s 1938 and Iran is...

If elections were held today, the governing Kadima party would receive a mere nine mandates, according to a telephone poll carried out by the Smith Institute for Ynet. While Kadima is collapsing in public opinion, favor is returning for the Likud party. According to the poll, Likud would triumph in hypothetical elections with a full 32 mandates. Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu was perceived as the person best suited to serve as prime minister, earning 34 percent support and beating out his competitors by a large margin. After Netanyahu, those surveyed favored Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Labor Knesset Member Ami...

One of America's most influential neocons says President Bush is prepared to use military force against Iran if he believes it will acquire nuclear weapons. This past Sunday, Richard Perle, speaking in Israel at the Herzliya Conference, said he had no doubt of President Bush's intentions. "President George Bush will order an attack on Iran if it becomes clear to him that Iran is set to acquire nuclear weapons capabilities while he is still in office," Haaretz reported of Perle's remarks. Perle, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, served as chairman of the Bush administration's Defense Policy Board. Perle...