Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. But a statement by the Israeli prime minister’s office on Sunday cast doubt on whether the deal would progress, laying out several “principles” Israel is not prepared to abandon, including resumed fighting in Gaza “until all …
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. For months, Netanyahu has gingerly balanced these competing imperatives by refusing to even contemplate a permanent ceasefire as he blamed Hamas’s “delusional demands” for the collapse of previous rounds of negotiations. Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign …
From families of Hamas captives to politicians in his own government, Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low. “Prime ministers have fallen for far less than that.” Ever since he won elections last November and installed the most right-wing government in the country’s history, Netanyahu has battled criticism. “Demands for a ceasefire are increasing in the United States but in …
Israel is heading to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years on Tuesday, as the Jewish state chooses between a cautious, compromise-led incumbent or a return to the ultra-divisive rule of Benjamin Netanyahu. At Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, many Israelis seemed generally pleased with Mr Lapid's record as prime minister but were deeply concerned about …