Netanyahu: Es falso que Epstein fuera un agente de Israel

Netanyahu declaró este viernes que la “inusualmente estrecha relación” entre el ex primer ministro Ehud Barak y Jeffrey Epstein demuestra que este último no era un agente israelí, contrariamente a las teorías conspirativas que abundan en línea.

“La inusualmente estrecha relación de Jeffrey Epstein con Ehud Barak no sugiere que Epstein trabajara para Israel. Demuestra lo contrario”, escribió Netanyahu, en inglés, en X.

“Aferrado a su derrota electoral de hace más de dos décadas, Barak lleva años intentando obsesivamente socavar la democracia israelí colaborando con la izquierda radical antisionista en intentos fallidos de derrocar al gobierno israelí electo”, afirmó Netanyahu.

Another UN resolution, another exercise in futility

From 1947 to today, every chance for Palestinian statehood has been rejected. No declaration in New York will change that reality.

The headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. Credit: Anfaenger/Pixabay.

(Sept. 16, 2025 / JNS)  The U.N. General Assembly has once again stepped onto the stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with grand declarations and high-minded pronouncements. Just last week, it voted to endorse a seven-page declaration that outlines “tangible, timebound and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution.

The resolution was backed by Gulf Arab states and European powers, boycotted by the United States and Israel, and condemned by Jerusalem as a “publicity stunt.”

And a stunt it is.

Amos Schocken’s lies, Bill Clinton’s truths

The "Haaretz" publisher calls Palestinian terrorists “freedom fighters,” while the former U.S. president highlights their history of rejectionism.

Former President Bill Clinton discusses the relief efforts with Col. Buck Elton, Commander, Special Operations Command South Forward-Haiti, Port au Prince, Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010. Credit: Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock/U.S. Air Force Photo.

(Nov. 3, 2024 / JNS)  Two speeches last week are worthy of note for the widespread surprise they elicited, causing each to go viral within minutes.

The first was delivered last Sunday by the publisher of the Haaretz newspaper, Israel’s equivalent to The New York Times in terms of its increasingly radical content—no longer even disguised as journalistically objective—and shrinking, self-anointed elitist readership.

EHUD BARAK INTERVIEW: ‘Yom Kippur war was an operational victory to surpass even 1967’

In an exclusive interview with Jewish News marking this week's 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, the former prime minister reflects on how early existential setbacks were overcome and unlikely victory achieved.

By JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL

YOM KIPPUR WAR. IN THE PHOTO, PRIME MINISTER GOLDA MEIR, DEFENSE MINISTER MOSHE DAYAN & MINISTER ISRAEL GALILI VISITING THE SOUTHERN COMMAND IN THE SINAI. CREDIT: TZION YEHUDA (GPO)

Fifty years ago this week Egypt and Syria invaded Israel in a surprise attack during Yom Kippur. To mark the anniversary, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke to Jewish News about his predecessors’ existential failures ahead of the conflict and how they managed to overcome the odds to complete one of the most “brilliant military victories” in Israel’s history.

Los secretos del Proceso de Paz palestino-israelí – Capítulo 2 – Taba y la propuesta Olmert (2008)

En este segundo capítulo se detallan las propuestas israelíes a días de las elecciones de 2001, en Taba (Egipto) y la increíble propuesta del primer ministro Olmert en medio de las investigaciones por corrupción en su contra. El proceso de paz con los palestinos en donde siempre Mahmud Abbas y Arafat dijeron… No aceptamos.

Los secretos del Proceso de Paz palestino-israelí – Capítulo 1 – Camp David 2000

Foto wikipedia

A mediados del año 2000, el Primer Ministro de Israel Ehud Barak y su equipo se encierran en Camp David con sus pares palestinos liderados por Yasser Arafat. Bajo mediación norteamericana, Israel propone anexar 9% de Cisjordania (91% de Cisjordania sería el Estado Palestino) compensando a los palestinos con territorios dentro de Israel, partir Jerusalén y entregar el Monte del Templo para soberanía palestina (los palestinos exigían “todo el Monte del Templo”… es decir, también el Muro de los Lamentos). Los palestinos rechazaron la propuesta. Arafat comenzó la Segunda Intifada. Este documental de Ravid Druker (Canal 10 de Israel) nos cuestiona la afirmación ¿hay

Herzog tries to calm judicial reforms crisis amid widespread protest

Israeli President Herzog said that he is doing his best to reach an agreement that is acceptable to everyone regarding the proposed judicial reforms.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

President Isaac Herzog meets with Israel's political parties to hear their recommendations for prime minister, November 10, 2022.

(photo credit: OREN BEN HAKOON/POOL)

President Isaac Herzog confirmed that he is trying to find a solution for the conflict caused by Benjamin Netanyahu's government's judicial reforms in a statement on Sunday morning.

"We are in the midst of a deep conflict that is tearing the people apart," he said. "This conflict worries me and it worries a big part of people in Israel and the Diaspora.

La Administración Biden y el espejismo de los dos Estados

Las encuestas de opinión pública, incluida la más reciente, muestran lo que quiere la mayoría de los palestinos: matar a más judíos y la destrucción de Israel. La creciente popularidad de Hamás entre los palestinos es una clara señal de que la mayoría se identifica con el objetivo del grupo islamista de destruir Israel.

En la imagen (Thomas Coex/AFP vía Getty Images), hombres armados de Hamás desfilan en camiones con cohetes en una calle de Jan Yunis, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza, el 27 de mayo de 2021.

Días después de que el secretario de Estado estadounidense, Antony Blinken, reafirmara el compromiso de la Administración Biden con la solución de los dos Estados, los palestinos respondieron insistiendo en su rechazo a la idea y en su apoyo a que haya más terrorismo contra Israel.

Will Yoav Gallant's second coming herald an Israel attack on Iran? - analysis

Will this be Yoav Gallant and Benjamin Netanyahu's best chance to redo their missed opportunity in 2010 and attack Iran?

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Yoav Gallant. (Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)

(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

That Likud MK Yoav Gallant will be the next defense minister is not really news, seeing as it was leaked weeks ago. What could be news is whether Gallant entering the defense minister’s chair with a set of 12-year-old demons to exorcise could finally lead to the climactic war with Iran that many have predicted for a long time.

What demons of the past might Gallant be contending with, and why might the decision of incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint him as the new defense minister usher in an era of escalation against the Islamic Republic?

A 15 años de que Israel destruyó el reactor nuclear secreto de Siria, las FDI revelan documento inédito

Enlace Judío – Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel publicaron este martes un documento nunca antes visto de 2002, en el que la Dirección de Inteligencia Militar advirtió que Siria intentaba lanzar su programa nuclear militar, informó The Times of Israel.

La evaluación de inteligencia se realizó 5 años antes de que Israel finalmente atacara un reactor nuclear sirio secreto que se estaba construyendo en el área de Deir Ezzor el 6 de septiembre de 2007, en una misión conocida como Operación Huerto.

La publicación se produjo 15 años después del gran ataque aéreo que frenó efectivamente el programa nuclear de Siria.

Ehud Barak: Too late to stop Iran's nukes with military action

Ex-PM in a column he wrote: Israel might need to operate independently as Iran's nuclear breakout "will most probably" occur when the US has its hands full.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak seen during media interview in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2019     (photo credit: YOSSI ALONI/FLASH90)

Iran is close to becoming a nuclear state and military action will no longer be effective in stopping the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, former prime minister Ehud Barak warned this week.

Shaked, Sa’ar may move jobs in reshuffle; Blue and White, New Hope in talks – report

Gantz, Lapid both said courting ex-IDF chief Eizenkot for spot on slate ahead of elections; United Torah Judaism’s Gafni calls new PM; Liberman says he could be premier.

By TOI STAFF

Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked (L) speaks with New Hope head Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With Yair Lapid taking the post of prime minister as the country heads to elections, the interim cabinet is considering a reshuffle of certain portfolios, according to a Friday report.

Channel 13 news said Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar could move to the Foreign Ministry (taking over from Lapid) and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked could take Sa’ar’s Justice Ministry.

Do Palestinians prefer united Jerusalem under Israeli rule? - opinion

There is much debate over the existence and route of the Jerusalem Day flag march which is planned to go through Damascus Gate.

By MARK REGEV

MOTTA GUR (right), the paratroop commander during the 1967 war, and Yitzhak Rabin (second from right), who had been IDF chied of staff, visit the Lions Gate in 1992 to mark the war's 25th anniversary where Israeli troops had entered the Old City. (photo credit: FLASH90)

The fault lines over this Sunday’s Jerusalem Day celebrations are often depicted in simplistic terms: Thousands of kippa-clad Israelis take part in the annual parade to mark the anniversary of the reunification of the city in the Six Day War of June 1967, while keffiyeh-sporting Palestinians demonstrate their opposition to Israeli rule over al-Quds. But the realities are far more nuanced.

Afganistán y sus implicaciones para Israel y los palestinos

Talibanes en Afganistán tras la victoria, imagen a través de peopledispatchorg

Los vítores palestinos por la «victoria de los muyahidines afganos sobre los cruzados estadounidenses» crean la impresión que, en su opinión, los talibanes son un modelo digno a seguir para eliminar la «ocupación sionista». Sin embargo, un Líbano que se desmorona, una Franja de Gaza plagada de pobreza y desempleo y el propio Afganistán, ahora bajo el dominio de los talibanes, no indican el éxito del modelo islámico. Lo que los palestinos necesitan no es un

Sobran las palabras

Hace pocos días las tropas de Estados Unidos se retiraron de Afganistán.

Ariel Sharón – Foto: Wikipedia – Dominio Público

Lo que parecía una medida calculada con cuidado, resultó en un desastre cuando los talibanes tomaron control de casi todo el país, en una acción que pareció sumamente rápida y no esperada por los Estados Unidos.

No se sabe bien qué pasó, ni que pasa en los actuales momentos. Pero las imágenes de violencia y caos son muy elocuentes.

Defending Israel

An Iron Dome missile defense battery at Ramat David Air Force Base on May 2, 2017. (Image source: Oren Rozen/Wikimedia Commons)

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,040, May 16, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In order to meet the external and domestic security challenges confronting it, Israel must promptly take two main steps: substantial expansion of the IDF’s order of battle (by increasing its fighting units and creating a sizeable internal-security force), and reconstitution of its long-neglected territorial defense system.

The explosion of mass violence by Israel’s Arabs against their fellow Jewish citizens at a time when the country was under attack by an external enemy

Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks

In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned.

By RENEE GHERT-ZAND

Left to Right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000. (William J. Clinton Presidential Library/ Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Why, after more than a century of bloody conflict, have Israelis and Palestinians failed to reach a peace agreement? Israeli director Dror Moreh goes behind closed doors of the sincere, though largely failed efforts spearheaded by the United States by interviewing a handful of the American negotiators in his new documentary, “The Human Factor,” opening January 22 in the US.

This past November marked the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by right-wing Jewish extremist Yigal Amir. Moreh sees this as a fitting time to reflect on the derailment of the peace process Rabin worked

Ben-Ami: “Es el fin del conflicto árabe-israelí. No descartemos una solución jordano-palestina”

Entrevistan Gabriel Ben Tasgal y Marcos Peckel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKOnoPyDJk&t=217s

El ex Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Israel durante el gobierno de Ehud Barak se entrevista en una actividad conjunta Bnai Brith-Hatzad Hasheni para explicar la situación en las negociaciones de paz con los palestinos. Entrevistan

Barak: Goal of first Lebanon War was to turn Jordan to Palestinian State

The former prime minister told Maariv that the late Ariel Sharon was very clear when he told ministers Israel’s end goal was to drive PLO into Jordan but they “didn’t understand or pretend not to."

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ehud Barak speaks at a press conference with his Israel Democratic Party.

(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

The goal of the First Lebanon War was to drive the PLO out of Lebanon and into Jordan, former prime minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with Maariv, the sister publication of the Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli hope was that the PLO would have “learned the lessons of Black September (1970)”, when it clashed with Jordanian forces and was forced to leave Jordan – turning the country into the de facto Palestinian state, he said. 

Netanyahu at War (full film) | FRONTLINE

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