Every time there is a new Congress in the USA, Netanyahu is here making a speech. 

In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo by AP

It is politics both for the Republicans and Netanyahu. What national leader can simply dial up the US House Speaker asking for time with a joint session of Congress. Really? There has been no progress on the Israel and Palestine status, but, why should that stop anything?

June 21, 2015
By Barak Ravid

Such invitations (click here) are usually made leader to leader,' spokesman says, referring to Speaker Boehner's invitation, issued two months before the Israeli election is to take place...

With all the tensions and problems facing the Middle East where is the Prime Minister? You know, I don't hear how Israel is burdened with the Palestinian state. If a Prime Minister can come to the USA while settlements continue to oust Palestinians from their land either physically or financially, things simply can't be that bad.

HEBRON,January 21, 2015 (WAFA) – In an unprecedented move, (click here) the municipality of the illegal Israeli settlement Kiryat Arba near Hebron has asked a Palestinian resident nearby to pay a property tax of 88,200 Israeli shekel (about $22,400) to the Israeli municipality.

Youth against Settlement, a local initiative against illegal settlement activities, said Abdul-Karim al-Jabari, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, was shocked when a staff from the Israeli municipality of Kiryat Arba handed him a notice asking him to pay the aforementioned payment to the Israeli municipality.

Al-Jabari, whose land is partially occupied by illegal settlers, said that his land is not located within the municipal boundary of the illegal settlement Kiryat Arba, stressing that the decision aims at forcing him and his family to leave his land.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, are all declared illegal by International Law and United Nations Charters....

 

Israel has the longest running "Occupy Palestine" in history.