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...Qatari and Egyptian efforts to broker another truce between Israel and Hamas stalled on Saturday after Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a team of Mossad negotiators to return from Doha to Israel....
...Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, spokesperson for the IDF, told the FT: “We know that Hamas has stockpiled fuel extensively. We know they are utilising it for their ventilation in their tunnel system....
...You can listen to acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner discuss his newest book, The Topeka School, on the FT’s culture podcast Culture Call....
...(WSJ) Podcast of the day Culture call Ben Lerner is one of the most acclaimed American writers working today....
...“The people of Israel welcome Jonathan Pollard’s release,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Friday....
...Quicksand, by Steve Toltz, Sceptre, RRP£17.99 If anything can go wrong, it will — and it inevitably does so in the vicinity of Aldo Benjamin, Quicksand’s luckless protagonist....
...There has been no claim of responsibility for the killings, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the militant Islamist group Hamas, warning that it “will pay”....
...Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said on Saturday that once the tunnels were destroyed, the army would deploy “in places convenient for us” in order to reduce “friction”....
...Peter Lerner, said on Sunday that militants had possibly seized the soldier’s remains, but that some were recovered in a tunnel to which he was taken....
...Hamas’ bad decision to breach the ceasefire will be pursued by the IDF – we will continue to strike Hamas, its infrastructure, its operatives and restore security for the state of Israel,” Lt Col Peter Lerner...
...novel, New York-based writer Lerner has written about a New York writer who is supposed to be writing his, yes, second novel....
...Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on Sunday sought to link the military campaign with the death of the teenager, who was an Arab with Israeli citizenship....
...“There was an engagement with Hamas terrorists,” Lt Col Peter Lerner, an IDF spokesman said....
...Lt Col Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman, said five sites making weapons that were hidden in mosques were targets during the offensive....
...Barack Obama, the US president, expressed concern over the rising casualties on both sides in a telephone call with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli premier, on Sunday....
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a visit to the US to press Israel’s agenda on the Iranian nuclear programme and other issues, released a video statement praising Israel’s foiling of what he called...
...Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, described the shooting as a “very severe incident” and vowed to “respond in force”....
...“Those who claim there are few options for important innovations strike me as suffering from a failure of imagination,” says Benjamin Jones, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at the US’s Northwestern...
...Speaking at the beginning of his weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel held the Lebanese government responsible for the attack....
...“Large violent crowds such as this would significantly outnumber security forces and leave no other option but to resort to live fire in self-defence,” Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the...
...“We see a deterioration of the general chain of command,” says Lt Col Peter Lerner, an IDF spokesman....
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