NETANYAHU OFFERED MK TZIPI LIVNI ISRAEL’S FOREIGN MINISTRY

Jun19
NETANYAHU OFFERED MK TZIPI LIVNI ISRAEL’S FOREIGN MINISTRY

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Why is Netanyahu offering the Foreign Affairs portfolio to the opposition?

Netanyahu and Livni. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered MK Tzipi Livni the Foreign Affairs portfolio, sources close to Livni said on Saturday night, confirming an exclusive report by Channel 10 political correspondent Sefi Ovadia.

Netanyahu tried to bring Livni into his government in order to bolster his efforts to restart negotiations with the Palestinians, under the auspices of US President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt. Netanyahu has been holding the portfolio since his government was formed, hoping that opposition leader Isaac Herzog would join, but talks with the Zionist Union chairman did not bear fruit.

Livni’s associates said she rejected the offer because she believes he is not planning on taking enough steps to advance a diplomatic process with the Palestinians in a serious manner.

“She got the impression that what Netanyahu is doing is nothing but hot air,” a Livni associate said. “She is not interested in joining for nothing.”

NETANYAHU WINS HEADLINE SPAT WITH BBC OVER JERUSALEM STABBING

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that the BBC change the headline it used to describe Friday’s lethal attack. The MFA also bashed the channel for ‘biased’ coverage.

Benjamin Netanyahu/BBC. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reproach the BBC after the British news channel released what the premier deemed to be a biased report describing Friday’s terror attack, which resulted in the death of a 23-year-old border policewoman.

The original report was titled: “Three Palestinians killed after deadly stabbing in Jerusalem,” a headline that omitted the fact that the three perpetrators, who operated in two different scenes, were neutralized after they attempted to assault Israeli policemen and killed Staff Sgt. Maj. Hadas Malka.


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A female officer was stabbed to death in Jerusalem.
To the BBC she is irrelevant because she is Israeli.
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You mean after they stabbed a female Israeli police officer to death… right?
This is as close to being misleading as possible.

Another notable figure who criticized the BBC for its misleading headline was US President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who took to Twitter himself to lambast the station for the article they published. “You mean after they stabbed a female Israeli police officer to death… right? This is as close to being misleading as possible,” he charged.
Netanyahu had reportedly requested that Yuval Rotem, the Director General of the MFA, as well as the Israeli Embassy in London, both act to have the BBC acknowledge that the headline misrepresented the details of the attack and change it.
According to the MFA, prompted by the ministry’s request, the BBC has since changed the headline of the article.

The current headline now reads: “Israeli policewoman stabbed to death in Jerusalem.”

The tweet that the media outlet published on its official handle and which linked to the article with its previous headline has since been removed.

This is not the first time Israel lashes out at the BBC for what it says is a biased coverage of the conflict.

Last year, the head of Israel’s Government Press Office issued a warning to the BBC in reaction to the station’s coverage of a different Jerusalem terror attack that claimed the lives of two Israelis. The headline the BBC used to describe the attack was “Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills two.” The channel later changed its headline to: “Jerusalem: Palestinian kills two Israelis in Old City.”

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