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Topic: Tony Blair

April 7, 2013
8:21 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at Yad Vashem Sunday night. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu at Shoah ceremony: ‘We won’t leave our fate in the hands of others’

Also speaking at official Yad Vashem remembrance, Peres calls on world to take seriously modern-day threats of mass destruction

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

March 31, 2013
7:30 pm

Lord Ahmed reportedly claimed during an interview in Pakistan that English Jews were persecuting him because of a controversial visit to Gaza. (YouTube screenshot)

UK legislator sorry for blaming legal troubles on Jews

Lord Ahmed apologizes ‘completely and unreservedly’ after Pakistani TV interview in which he alleged a conspiracy against him

March 14, 2013
2:26 pm

Lord Ahmed reportedly claimed during an interview in Pakistan that English Jews were persecuting him because of a controversial visit to Gaza. (YouTube screenshot)

British lord suspended over ‘anti-Semitic’ interview

Labour party will investigate report Lord Ahmed blamed a Jewish conspiracy for his jail sentence after he killed someone with his car

By Miriam Shaviv

February 25, 2013
8:48 am

Palestinians take cover during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Abbas accuses Israel of killing Palestinian kids as low-level violence flares

Thousands attend funeral of Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israeli jail on Saturday; milder protests than expected in West Bank; US issues travel warning

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 17, 2012
12:21 pm

Special Envoy to the Quartet of Middle East Peacemakers Tony Blair, attends a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 8, 2010. (photo credit: by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.)

‘Useless, useless, useless’: The Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair

From the web The Independent: Officials say the Quartet on the Middle East and its representative, the former British prime minister, have achieved nothing

December 3, 2012
2:15 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Jerusalem in 2010 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Clinton raps Palestinians, Israelis for letting peace slip away

Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities, but Israelis should show more empathy, says outgoing secretary of state

By Ron Kampeas

October 22, 2012
11:30 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mideast Peace Envoy Tony Blair in Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, October 22 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

PM: Terrorists launching rockets at Israel will not get away with it

‘We attacked them before, we attacked them after and we’re going to prevent them from arming themselves,’ Netanyahu tells Tony Blair

By Raphael Ahren

September 23, 2012
4:23 pm

The waters off the coast of Gaza. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA ProIsraeli, Flickr)

Israel said ready to develop Gaza gas field together with Palestinians

Move could have dramatic influence on economy of Gaza, where 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas lie beneath the sea

By Stuart Winer

September 5, 2012
4:46 pm

Orly Weinerman (photo credit: Facebook)

Knesset member wants model investigated for her love affair with Gaddafi’s son

Orly Weinerman was involved with a ‘terrorist’ who wanted to ‘destroy the Jewish people,’ Ben-Ari writes to attorney general

By Michal Shmulovich

September 3, 2012
2:34 pm

Orly Weinerman (photo credit: Facebook)

Israeli reveals affair with Gaddafi’s son, asks Tony Blair to save his life

Orly Weinerman calls Saif Gaddafi — who faces death penalty in Libyan trial — ‘civilized’ and ‘honorable,’ says they considered marriage

By Gabe Fisher

July 19, 2012
4:51 pm

Former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya in 2009 (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)

Gaddafi killed anyone who discovered his mother was Jewish, aide claims

Nouri Mismari, the slain Libyan leader’s chief of protocol, details the colonel’s outrageous behavior

By Elhanan Miller

June 10, 2012
4:36 pm

Shaul Mofaz (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Mofaz to Blair: There’s a window for peace with the PA

Deputy prime minister says he wants to meet Abbas

By Asher Zeiger

May 14, 2012
11:26 am

Palestinian relatives and family members demonstrate in front of the police station in Sheikh Jarrach in Jerusalem on Friday. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Palestinian prisoners agree to end mass hunger strike

Abbas hails deal, Gazans celebrate as family visits from the Strip will now resume

By Times of Israel staff and AP

April 19, 2012
11:54 am

Tony Blair (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/FLASH90)

Blair warns against Western disengagement from Middle East

Quartet representative says he now better recognizes threat of radical Islam

March 6, 2012
1:23 pm

Ben Helfgott, the only known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp to compete in the Olympic Games. (Photo credit: Jewishsports.net)

England salutes 2-time Olympian who survived Holocaust

Ben Helfgott, 82, will receive an award from Communities Secretary Eric Pickles at London’s Jewish Living Expo

By Nathan Burstein