“... are liberals disturbs the politically dominant right wing: so much so that a few years ago Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon’s potential successor, set up the Shalem Centre, a neo-con foundation funded by, among others, Ron Lauder, the American cosmetics millionaire. Shalem’s quarterly, Tchelet (‘Azure’ – because blue and white are the colours ...”

“... on media reports from Israel and on a statement by a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Biden repeated the claim on 12 December, but it is no longer being made by the Israelis. It had served its purpose. (The use of the supposed mutilation of babies as a propaganda tool isn’t new: it was used most famously early in the ...”

“... force on his headquarters in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. A few hours earlier, Benjamin Netanyahu had addressed the UN General Assembly, denouncing the organisation as a cesspool of antisemitism and vowing to press on with his war in Lebanon. ‘He wasn’t just another terrorist. He was the terrorist,’ ...”

“... alive in Israeli air strikes; of women and children subsisting on 245 calories a day. This is what Benjamin Netanyahu describes as ‘the victory of Judaeo-Christian civilisation against barbarism’.The military operation in Gaza has altered the shape, perhaps even the meaning, of the struggle over Palestine – it seems misleading, and even ...”

“... another opportunity. Expulsion plans were trumpeted by Israeli politicians and media spokespeople. Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that he was actively seeking to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. Israeli and some US officials started lobbying Egypt to accept large numbers of refugees. For eight months the Israeli army refrained from occupying the border ...”

“... to carve out internationally – in the US specifically – over the past thirty years. When Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel’s existence is on the line and that it is facing a ‘second war of independence’, he was essentially announcing that any form of partition will entail absolute separation from the Palestinians, who are to be kept ...”

“... allies. The most ridiculous claims, that Arabs are Nazis, today come from the right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu. But Netanyahu has predecessors within the Zionist establishment. In The Holocaust in American Life (1999), Peter Novick noted that the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El-Husseini (a sworn enemy ...”

“... years since then, Iran has shown a marked preference for the status quo ante. It is Israel, under Benjamin Netanyahu, that has emerged as the power that aspires to unrivalled regional domination: ethnically cleansing Gaza; unleashing unprecedented levels of violence in the West Bank; decapitating Hizbullah and subjecting Lebanon to collective ...”

“... of fraud and a stock-market rout, he appeared in Haifa on 31 January, smiling for pictures with Benjamin Netanyahu and hailing the Abraham Accords brokered by Jared Kushner as a ‘gamechanger’, as he took charge of Israel’s largest port. Adani’s ‘liberation’ of Haifa, as Netanyahu put it, brings closer the ...”

“... at least, in the reforms now being demanded by the ultra-nationalist coalition which is keeping Benjamin Netanyahu in office (and out of the dock). These include shifting judicial appointments and promotions, at present made by a nine-member committee drawn from government, parliament, bench and bar, into the hands of politicians; restricting the power ...”

“... including the use of starvation as a weapon of war. International Criminal Court warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister for defence, Yoav Gallant, remain outstanding, and Britain would be obliged to arrest the men were they to set foot on British soil (an obligation Starmer has said he will abide by). And the destruction ...”

“... of heritage, Amihai Eliyahu, the destruction of northern Gaza was ‘a pleasure for the eyes’. Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly spoken of inducing the Palestinians to leave. The finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, imagines a future with ‘100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million’. Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said that ...”

“... force on his headquarters in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. A few hours earlier, Benjamin Netanyahu had addressed the UN General Assembly, denouncing the organisation as a cesspool of antisemitism and vowing to press on with his war in Lebanon. ‘He wasn’t just another terrorist. He was the terrorist,’ ...”

“... and Israel would ‘raze their missile industry to the ground’ and ‘annihilate their navy’. Benjamin Netanyahu called on Iranians to ‘come out to the streets and finish the job’. The first week of operations was conducted with characteristic disregard for civilian casualties. Among the targets hit with airstrikes were medical facilities, the ...”

“... has Europe only now discovered that Israel is in breach of the law? If disinvestment continues, Benjamin Netanyahu will turn out to have been over-confident when he declared in February that world demand for Israeli high-tech goods would enable the country to outflank the boycott. But the boycott is a means, not an end. The objective is to overcome the ...”