Ipse by Tag - Netanyahu

Avigdor Liberman

Inserted 4 days ago

“The prime minister of October 7 [Benjamin Netanyahu] is doing exactly what our enemies dream of - fighting the Shin Bet head. [Netanyahu] needed to take responsibility after the disaster, resign first and demand all those to blame for the failure join him.”

Timesofisrael

Yisrael Beiteinu leader and former defense minister

20 Mar 2025 3 1

Abdulaziz Alghashian

Inserted 1 month ago

“Many people are preparing themselves for something very negative on the horizon in regards to the ongoing yet fragile Gaza ceasefire. I think they sense that Netanyahu is someone who's really confident, especially after leaving Washington [and] getting a great deal of support from the White House for his dream of pushing people out of Palestine. The emboldened Israeli prime minister might, at some point, try to draw the United States into attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. Netanyahu is trying to create a great deal of instability so he could prolong his political career.”

Aje

Senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation Middle East

17 Feb 2025 7 2

Alon Pinkas

Inserted 1 month ago

“The ceasefire was tenuous or precarious to begin with, yet it endured. The ceasefire - in its 17th day today - is working and the hostages are being released and Palestinian prisoners are being released in exchange. But the real challenge is that negotiations to get to the second phase of the deal are beginning at a time when Prime Minister Netanyahu is in Washington trying to relitigate … phase two and change the sequencing or the timetables. It remains to be seen whether he will extract some kind of consent from President Trump, which I doubt, or whether he will try and disrupt this process during the negotiations. Phase two would usher in a permanent ceasefire and end to Israel's Gaza war, which the US president has called for. Mr Netanyahu is caught between contradictory assurances and pledges that he made. He promised Trump that he is committed to phase two, by virtue of the agreement that he himself signed. But he also promised his extreme right-wing coalition partners that the war will be resumed and there probably won't be a second phase.”

Aje

Former ambassador and Consul General of Israel in New York

04 Feb 2025 11 3

Alon Pinkas

Inserted 1 month ago

“Israeli public is being exposed to a new narrative in the past 24 hours. That narrative is the ceasefire deal will not be completed … because Hamas won't live up to the ceasefire agreement … and that it is doubtful that there's going to be a phase two. You can put it in context and say [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is floating a trial balloon of sorts ahead of his meeting with President Donald Trump next week. But there is also the conventional wisdom even if the first 42 days are implemented smoothly, and do occur without major interruption, it's very doubtful that phase two or stage two will be implemented. Netanyahu's meeting with President Trump is so critical, not because of the details of what they're going to talk about, but how serious Donald Trump is in getting this [ceasefire] done and if he's going to succumb to Netanyahu's inevitable manipulations.”

Aje

Former ambassador and Consul General of Israel in New York

01 Feb 2025 9 3

Sami Abu Shahadeh

Inserted 1 month ago

“The ceasefire will continue. But Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, will seek to delay the implementation of each of the three stages in order to gain more time and stay on as the country's prime minister. Unfortunately, this criminal of war is running the whole Israeli state according to his political interests. I think his main political interest now is to survive till the summer vacation of the Knesset that starts on July 28 and ends after the end of all the Hebrew feasts at the end of October. And if Netanyahu is successful in prolonging the ceasefire talks till the end of July, it means he will continue being a prime minister, at least till the beginning of 2026. He has elections at the end of 2026, so I think in each period, in each part of the ceasefire talks, Netanyahu will try to win a few more days in order to get to this. But the whole issue here is that there's a dangerous prime minister, criminal of war, wanted by the ICC, running the whole state according to his own personal political interests.”

Aje

Former member of the Israeli Knesset

25 Jan 2025 5 2

Daniel Levy

Inserted 2 months ago

“Netanyahu's coalition stability depends on him breaking the accord and restarting the war. The best guide to understanding what's going on is to listen to the words of the Israeli leaders. Netanyahu has told us that he does not intend to see this through. [He] is signalling his intention to ensure that, beyond the first phase of the deal, there is no further ceasefire.”

Aje

President of the U.S./Middle East Project and former Israeli peace negotiator

19 Jan 2025 6 2

Muhannad Ayyash

Inserted 2 months ago

“What we can be assured of is that the Trump administration is not interested in the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, and is not against Israel's plans to annex large swaths of the West Bank. In fact, some reports suggest that the Trump administration may have promised Netanyahu US support for the annexation of certain areas of the West Bank in exchange for his acceptance of the ceasefire deal, which Israel may not even follow through past phase 1. In such a scenario, if it indeed transpires, Trump gets what he wants, which is a political victory, and Netanyahu gets what he wants, which is the continued settler colonisation of Palestine.”

Aljazeera

Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University

17 Jan 2025 10 3

Josep Borrell

Inserted 2 months ago

“Cherrypicking in applying the Rome Statute is incomprehensible. How can we expect third countries to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Putin (which they should!) and then say we won't enforce it against Netanyahu? Our credibility as a community of law is eroding.”

Aje

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

17 Jan 2025 5 1

Omar Rahman

Inserted 2 months ago

“If you have a united Palestinian territory under a united Palestinian leadership, then Israel will be under pressure to participate in a political end game, and Netanyahu doesn't want that to happen.”

Aljazeera

Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs

17 Jan 2025 4 2

Hugh Lovatt

Inserted 2 months ago

“Everyone sees Netanyahu as a dominant force in Israeli politics, but it is remarkable how much Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have been able to exploit his political fears to pursue their own agendas. The Netanyahu today is not the one of the past. He's more fearful and he's unable to make decisions, which has led to strategic paralysis.”

Aljazeera

Expert on Israel-Palestine for the European Council on Foreign Relations

17 Jan 2025 5 1

Lawrence Korb

Inserted 2 months ago

“Biden can take credit for the recently announced ceasefire deal, as the provisions in it are the ones he pushed. But the idea that Biden's administration solved the issue is not correct. What I think what happened is that when [Biden] put [the deal] forward in May he was basically the lame-duck president. We did not know who was going to be elected. I think Netanyahu thought that given his previous relationship with Trump, when Trump came in, he could get even more aggressive. I think what surprised him was Trump, even now during the transition period, has sent somebody to work with Biden on getting the truce. [Trump] let it be clear to Netanyahu that he wanted this over as soon as he took office, and if Netanyahu didn't accept that, then he basically might consider whether he would continue to send him the same amount of aid that's being sent.”

Aje

Former US assistant secretary of defence

16 Jan 2025 6 1

Yohanan Plesner

Inserted 2 months ago

“In any event, the government is likely to survive until the end of the first phase of the deal. But Mr. Netanyahu may have to decide between his parliamentary majority and his relationship with the incoming administration in Washington, with Mr. Trump and Saudi Arabia perhaps offering him the opportunity to burnish his legacy. I think his mind is already in the next big move. If he has to choose between an intimate relationship with the Trump administration and Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, he'll opt for Trump.”

Nytimes

President of the Israel Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Jerusalem

16 Jan 2025 7 3

Gayil Talshir

Inserted 2 months ago

“Netanyahu wants to stay in power. It doesn't make any sense for him to go to elections that he might not win. He wants another two years leading the government.”

Nytimes

Political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

16 Jan 2025 1 2

Michael Koplow

Inserted 2 months ago

“Trump is going to be the critical variable when it comes to the Israeli side. If Trump is happy with having orchestrated the first phase and then moves on to other issues, it will be harder to keep the cease-fire in place. If Mr. Trump retains his focus, it will be tougher for Netanyahu not to find ways to extend the cease-fire deal and figure out other ways to appease his disgruntled coalition members.”

Nytimes

Analyst at Israel Policy Forum, a New York-based research group

16 Jan 2025 8 1

Jonathan Panikoff

Inserted 2 months ago

“Biden deserves praise for continuing to push the talks. But Trump's threats to Hamas and his efforts to cajole Netanyahu deserve credit as well. The ironic reality is that at a time of heightened partisanship even over foreign policy, the deal represents how much more powerful and influential U.S. foreign policy can be when it's bipartisan.”

Apnews

Director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council

15 Jan 2025 7 1

Alon Liel

Inserted 2 months ago

“In Israel, people are frustrated that captives remain in Gaza and surprised that, in recent weeks, Israeli military activity there has intensified. Generally speaking, Israelis are quite surprised that the intensity of the military activity is growing. I think the general feeling here was a month or two ago that [the war] will fade away and slow down, but it is not. Netanyahu, meanwhile, still faces the problems of looking like he has no victory in the war, and that any prisoner exchange with Hamas could topple him. Any exchange will involve the release of many prisoners we have in our jails, and might - and probably will - topple his government. So he's trying to manoeuvre and trying to find the point in time in which we will not be seeing the Hamas people and their supporters dancing in Gaza when they get the prisoners back and describing the result as a victory.”

Aje

Former director of Israel’s foreign ministry

06 Jan 2025 7 5

Dan Perry

Inserted 2 months ago

“At least half of Israelis want a return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza and the beginning of a process on Palestinian independence. A significant proportion of Israeli's believe that Netanyahu calculated on 7 October that the debacle he oversaw was so profound and spectacular that … we can't do the political accounting until the war is over, which incentives a forever war. If [Netanyahu] ends the war and pulls out of Gaza, while leaving Hamas in power… then his government would collapse. And all the polls show he would lose the [next] election.”

Aje

Former chairman of the Foreign Press Association of Israel

30 Dec 2024 8 4

Nour Odeh

Inserted 3 months ago

“What Israel has done in the Golan Heights is to restrict the ability of Syrians to build in their own communities, while it has conducted land grabs, built settlements, and now, wants to double those settlements. Why? Because Trump is coming back to office and Netanyahu wants to expand control over the Golan Heights and make it permanent. He was also encouraged by the Biden administration, which didn't change Trump's policy on the Golan Heights.”

Aje

Al Jazeera’s journalist

15 Dec 2024 6 2

Asher Kaufman

Inserted 3 months ago

“Israel's prime minister is seeking to construct a favourable narrative by deploying the military in the occupied Golan Heights. The Hermon mountain range is a soft spot for the Israeli public [due to biblical references]. Netanyahu has been playing on that, using cultural elements that are very strong among the Israeli society to generate support. Netanyahu is creating a narrative that serves him very well domestically among his base and the right-wing circles.”

Aje

Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame

11 Dec 2024 5 3

Rashida Tlaib

Inserted 4 months ago

“The International Criminal Court's long overdue decision to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity signals that the days of the Israeli apartheid government operating with impunity are ending. Since this genocide began, the United States has provided more than $18bn in weapons to the Israeli government. The Biden Administration can no longer deny that those same US weapons have been used in countless war crimes. Washington must immediately halt all arms transfers to the Israeli apartheid regime. Today's historic arrest warrants cannot bring back the dead and displaced, but they are a major step towards holding war criminals accountable.”

Aljazeera

Member of the Democratic Party - U.S. Representative for Michigan

21 Nov 2024 6 1

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“The prime minister of October 7 [Benjamin Netanyahu] is doing exactly what our enemies dream of - fighting the Shin Bet head. [Netanyahu] needed to take responsibility after the disaster, resign first and demand all those to blame for the failure join him.”

“Cherrypicking in applying the Rome Statute is incomprehensible. How can we expect third countries to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Putin (which they should!) and then say we won't enforce it against Netanyahu? Our credibility as a community of law is eroding.”

“If you have a united Palestinian territory under a united Palestinian leadership, then Israel will be under pressure to participate in a political end game, and Netanyahu doesn't want that to happen.”

“Netanyahu wants to stay in power. It doesn't make any sense for him to go to elections that he might not win. He wants another two years leading the government.”

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