Benjamin Netanyahu
April 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It has been noted that many Europeans seemed disappointed at our successful rescue of the downed airmen in Iran, as were many Democrats. But you know who was happy about it? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed almost giddy: I congratulate @realDonaldTrump on the rescue of a brave American pilot by America’s courageous warriors. All Israelis rejoice in this remarkable operation. It proves that when free societies act with courage and
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February 28, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This morning the Israelis bombed Ayatollah Khamenei’s compound, where a meeting of Khamenei and other top regime leaders was believed to be taking place. Conflicting reports about the Supreme Leader’s status have since emerged, without any definitive news. A little while ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli people. Some excerpts: “This morning, Israel and the United States launched a joint operation to remove the existential threat to Israel
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November 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Trump knows something about bogus, politically-motivated prosecutions, so he sympathizes with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is going through the same thing Trump did. So Trump wrote a letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog, asking him to pardon Netanyahu. The letter is embedded below. Trump wrote: I hereby call on you to fully pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been a formidable and decisive War Time Prime Minister, and is now leading
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September 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in which they announced a plan–Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”–that, according to the President, would not only end the war in Gaza: I’m not just talking about Gaza. Gaza is one thing, but we’re talking about much beyond Gaza. The whole deal, everything getting solved. It’s called peace in the Middle East. Trump
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September 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This is consistent with what I have taken to be President Trump’s position, but I am not sure I have seen it officially reported before: Benjamin Netanyahu said Donald Trump urged him to reject a partial ceasefire deal with Hamas and continue the war in Gaza with “full force.” Israel’s prime minister refused to hold a vote on the proposed truce during a heated security cabinet meeting late on Sunday,
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June 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Nadav Eyal is a well-informed Israeli journalist. He has posted a nine-part thread on X assessing the progress of Israel’s war on Iran’s nuclear program so far. The thread can be accessed via the post below. 1/The Iran – Israel War, Day 8. We are now a week after Israel launched what it labeled its *preemptive strike* against Iran, effectively beginning the war. It’s time to assess what both sides
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June 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Prime Minister Netanyahu sat for an interview with Bret Baeir on Fox News yesterday. I have posted the video below. As of this morning, it has nearly 4,000,000 views on YouTube. It is certainly worth your time. Power Line readers can draw their own inferences from Netanyahu’s responses to Baier’s questions. I will limit myself to two points. Netanyahu wants the continuing support of President Trump and the Fox News
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April 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I was hopeful that Hugh Hewitt picked up on Gadi Taub’s long-form interview with Benjamin Netanyahu from Power Line, but no. He makes it clear at the outset that this was not the case. However, that is just about the only disappointment I found in Hugh’s interview of Taub about it. He found it as interesting as I did. I thought some readers who took in the interview might find
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April 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I posted video of Gadi Taub’s March 28 interview with Prime Minister Netanyahu — the latest episode of the Israel Update series on which Michael Doran usually joins Taub. In the interview Netanyahu walks us through all the major decisions that shaped the Iron Swords war thus far. The interview is conducted in Hebrew and posted with English subtitles. This is a remarkably illuminating document on the critical decisions
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April 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Gadi Taub is an author, historian, and columnist as well as co-host (with Michael Doran) of Tablet’s Israel Update podcast. Last week I recommended his Tablet column “Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State” for its understanding of the internal political turmoil that is roiling Israel. On March 9, Quillette’s Pamela Paresky sat down with Taub in Tel Aviv to discuss the war in Gaza, the failures of Israel’s security establishment,
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February 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The genocidal mania of Hamas and its supporters revels in murder and humiliation of the enemy. The ecstatic bloodlust is palpable. The impetus of degradation is manifest. Thus Hamas has staged the release of hostages under the current ceasefire with Israel in a manner that comports with the mania. They have turned each release into a celebratory production that degrades and humiliates hostages captives who have been starved and tortured
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December 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Presidents Obama and Biden have treated Iran and its proxies with kid gloves. It is difficult to understand the underlying thought. Michael Doran seemed to me to hold the key in his 2015 Mosaic essay “Obama’s secret Iran strategy” (2015) and in updates such as the Tablet essays “The realignment” (with Tony Badran, 2021) and “Biden’s ties that bind” (2023). The Obama/Biden foreign policy hands (including Obama and Biden themselves)
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October 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
After firing thousands of rockets that forced the depopulation of much of northern Israel, Hezbollah has been devastated by Israel’s counterattacks. But if down, Hezbollah and its sponsor Iran are not quite out. Earlier today, they tried to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: A drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon that exploded in the central seaside town of Caesarea early on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home, his
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July 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress for the fourth time. Senate Majority Leader Schumer grudgingly joined in the invitation and grudgingly attended when Netanyahu spoke yesterday. Johnson and Netanyahu appeared publicly together for brief statements before the speech (video below). Thank you for your leadership, Speaker Johnson. Roughly half of the Democrats in Congress boycotted the speech. Rashida Tlaib
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July 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The sage Michael Doran adds two notes to a New York Times story about President Biden’s possible or pending departure from the 2024 presidential race. Doran highlights the New York Times story “Secluded in Rehoboth, Biden Stews at Allies’ Pressure to Drop Out of the Race,” by Peter Baker, Michael Shear, and Katie Rogers. This NYT article about Biden edging closer to dropping out of the race contains two nuggets.
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