President Isaac Herzog is seeking clarification from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following sharp criticism directed at him by U.S. President Donald Trump, a day after Trump met with Netanyahu in Washington. Trump said Thursday called Herzog “disgraceful” for not granting Netanyahu a pardon in his ongoing corruption trial. Herzog’s office said the president wants to know whether...

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For those still scanning the horizon for signs of a possible strike on Iran, the most important development this week was not Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington. It was a report in The Wall Street Journal that the Pentagon is preparing the option of deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, in addition to the USS Abraham Lincoln already operating in the...

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It is unclear what Netanyahu thought of the “Forrest Gump” label bestowed on him by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. There is every reason to assume it did not truly bother him. If being portrayed as a hapless, weak and powerless figure , as Bennett described him, someone swept into events he was barely connected to, is what might spare him a state commission of inquiry, then so be it....

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