IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Fact Sheets
For more than two decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has played a central role in the failure of the US-sponsored Oslo negotiations process and the two-state solution that it’s predicated on. As he boasted to a group of Israeli settlers in a candid moment caught on video in 2001 following his first term as prime minister (1996-1999): "I de facto put an end to the Oslo Accords.”
on July 22, 2024
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Over the past decade, the messianic Temple Mount movement has grown rapidly, gravitating from the margins of Israeli society to the mainstream. The IMEU offers the following fact sheet providing an overview of Israeli government support for the extremist Temple Mount movement, whose provocations in occupied East Jerusalem are one of the main causes of the current crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.
on November 4, 2015
Fact Sheets
The following fact sheet provides an overview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar-Ilan University in 2009 and his views on Palestinian statehood the two-state solution
on March 24, 2015
Fact Sheets
On July 22, Israeli media reported that Israel's Supreme Court ruled against a petition asking that the controversial Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu be barred from running for the post of Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi. Eliyahu, currently the chief rabbi of the city of Safed, has been accused of inciting racism and intolerance against Arabs and others. Eliyahu receives a salary from the Israeli government.
on July 23, 2013