<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
		    <rss version="2.0"> 
			<channel> 
			    <title>Netanyahu | Israel.com</title> 
				<link>http://www.israel.com/netanyahu</link> 
				<description></description><item>
			<title>Syria: no place for back-seat drivers | Editorial</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/syria-no-place-for-backseat-drivers-editorial</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Having rejected the diplomatic option of talking to Assad, neither the US nor Britain can lead from behindIt was only a matter of time before a proxy war between regional powers turned into a battlefield in which foreign fighters openly engaged in combat. Hezbollah&#039;s fighters had been present in Syria for some time, but their overt role in the fight for a strategic border town linking Damascus to Homs and the regime&#039;s core support in the Alawite hinterland is, potentially, a game-changer. If it ever had been an open question whether conditions could be produced that would allow Iran and Hezbollah to relinquish their support for Bashar Assad, in favour of a transitional regime that would offer guarantees to the minority Alawite community, that has now been answered.Whatever happens in the town of Qusair, both Hezbollah and Iran are now signalling that Assad&#039;s fate has become a matter of existential survival for them, too. The regime&#039;s victory, or defeat, will become a victory or defeat for its allies. This makes any attempt at intra-Syrian reconciliation – already a faint hope, after the vicious sectarianism shown first by the regime and latterly, alas, by some rebels – virtually impossible. Syria of any description, either the north and east, still held by the rebels, or the south and west, held by the regime, is no longer master of its own territory or  fate.Factionalism is rife. The dominant, or at least most cohesive, fighting group on the rebel side, Jabhat al-Nusra, is funded and armed by non-state actors, as is al-Qaida, to which the Sunni jihadi group has vowed its allegiance. There are splits between rebel units on the ground and the Syrian opposition in Turkey and Doha. A further cleavage has opened between Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Jordan, on the one side – all determined not to let the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood gain control of Syria – and Qatar and Turkey on the other, which back other brotherhood-dominated regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. If Sunni al-Qaida is fighting Shia Hezbollah in Qusair, the Sunni regimes of the Gulf are doing a good job undermining each other&#039;s foreign policy as well.Did the Israeli strikes provoke Hezbollah&#039;s move? As Vladimir Putin told Binyamin Netanyahu in no uncertain terms, they certainly prompted Russia into sending Assad S300 surface-to-air missiles. The involvement of the best armed and trained Shia militia in the region was perhaps only a matter of time. The foreign secretary, William Hague, said there was a compelling case for lifting the EU arms embargo, dispatching weapons in &quot;carefully controlled circumstances&quot;. This is provocative. We have lost leverage over rebel groups. Having rejected the diplomatic option of talking to Assad for so long, neither US nor Britain — nor Russia on its side — can &quot;lead from behind&quot; in Syria. A military conflict is no place for back-seat drivers.SyriaBashar al-Assadal-QaidaHezbollahIranIsraelRussiaMiddle East and North Africaguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms &amp; Conditions | More Feeds]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Dershowitz to PM: Watch ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/dershowitz-to-pm-watch-</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Law professor sends episode of Larry David&#039;s show to Netanyahu, hoping he will invite Abbas over to watch it together.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:38:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Putin taught Bibi a lesson</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/putin-taught-bibi-a-lesson</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Op-ed: PM should have saved his demand from Russian leader for private rather than public dialogue]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:33:20 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>John Kerry to visit Middle East this week to revive peace talks</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/john-kerry-to-visit-middle-east-this-week-to-revive-peace-talks</link>
			<description><![CDATA[British foreign secretary William Hague to join the US secretary of state&#039;s fourth visit to region in two monthsUS secretary of state John Kerry arrives in the Holy Land this week on his fourth visit in two months amid deepening scepticism on all sides about his chances of breathing life back into the moribund peace process, and an acknowledgement by European diplomats that there is no &quot;Plan B&quot; in place in the event of its failure.The British foreign secretary William Hague will also join the Middle East diplomatic merry-go-round this week, with a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories beginning on Thursday. The focus of Hague&#039;s trip, in which he is expected to meet politicians from both sides, is to support Kerry&#039;s mission to bring the two sides back to negotiations after an impasse of almost four years.Kerry&#039;s efforts have produced no tangible results so far, apart from both parties consenting to refrain from actions which could set back his efforts. But while the Palestinians have stuck to their agreement to postpone pressing their case for statehood at international bodies, Israel has infringed its unannounced de facto moratorium on settlement expansion with recent moves on the retroactive legalisation of four unauthorised outposts and the construction of 300 houses at Beit El.Following his last visit, Kerry said he was working on a package to boost the Palestinian economy as part of a framework of measures. No details were given.Israeli and Palestinian political and diplomatic sources are privately sceptical about the chances of negotiations resuming but are unwilling to publicly dismiss such a high-profile effort. &quot;It&#039;s not going to happen. We know that, they know that, but Kerry doesn&#039;t know it yet,&quot; said one.European diplomats are also reluctant to express confidence in the likely success of the mission, speaking instead about giving Kerry &quot;space&quot; and &quot;encouragement&quot; to pursue his efforts.&quot;The EU wanted American engagement in this issue, and now we should support and encourage him, and give him space to develop something,&quot; said a senior European diplomat. &quot;We know exactly what the situation is but we are not speaking of a Plan B because we want Plan A to succeed.&quot;Another European diplomat was blunter. &quot;There is no Plan B, or at least not one that all 27 [EU] states can agree to. If Kerry fails, it will be up to individual countries to try to change the dynamic.&quot;International hopes were raised when the Arab League last month spoke for the first time about a Palestinian state on 1967 borders with &quot;comparable and mutually agreed minor swaps of the land&quot;. The statement, from the Qatari foreign minister, was the first time the League had acknowledged the possibility of some Jewish settlements in the West Bank being on Israel&#039;s side of any agreed border.Kerry has pushed the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative &quot;which offered normalised relations between all Arab states and Israel in return for a Palestinian state&quot; as a basis for renewed talks. He welcomed the new statement, as did former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who said: &quot;We are speaking of an opportunity that must be seized to renew the diplomatic process.&quot;However, Binyamin Netanyahu, the current prime minister, has not even acknowledged the move, let alone seized it as an opportunity. Referring to a Haaretz front page headline which read &quot;John Kerry&#039;s upcoming visit to Israel is fourth attempt to push stone up the hill&quot;, one western diplomat quipped: &quot;It&#039;s more like pushing water up hill. At least with a stone you have a chance.&quot;Much of the secretary of state&#039;s attention will be focussed on Syria during his four-day trip to the Middle East, which includes visits to Oman and Jordan. He is expected to discuss with Netanyahu Israel&#039;s recent airstrikes on weapons stores near Damascus and the risks of such action internationalising the civil war, now into its third year.Netanyahu has refused to rule out further action aimed at preventing advanced or chemical weapons being transferred to Islamic militants, despite the Syrian regime&#039;s threats to retaliate on the next occasion.John KerryUnited StatesMiddle East peace talksJordanOmanIsraelPalestinian territoriesWilliam HagueObama administrationUS politicsHarriet Sherwoodguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms &amp; Conditions | More Feeds]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:53:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Police identify four Beersheba shooting victims</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/police-identify-four-beersheba-shooting-victims</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Former border police officer kills himself and four others in shootout at Bank Hapoalim in Beersheba; Police release names of victims, which include two bank employees; PM Binyamin Netanyahu sends condolences to families.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:38:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Police identify three Beersheba bank shooting victims</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/police-identify-three-beersheba-bank-shooting-victims</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Former border police officer kills himself and four others in shootout at Bank Hapoalim in Beersheba; Police release names of victims, which include two bank employees; PM Binyamin Netanyahu sends condolences to families.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:18:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Four Israelis dead in Beersheba bank shooting</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/four-israelis-dead-in-beersheba-bank-shooting</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Assailant, a Jew from Beersheba in his 40s, shoots himself after killing four at Bank Hapoalim; Police suspect man was enraged by the bank&#039;s refusal to extend his credit line; Netanyahu labels incident a &quot;terror attack.&quot;]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:53:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Four Israelis dead in Beersheba bank heist</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/four-israelis-dead-in-beersheba-bank-heist</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Assailant shoots himself after killing four at Bank Hapoalim on Jabotinsky Street in Israel&#039;s South; Police suspect man was enraged by the bank&#039;s refusal to extend his credit line; Netanyahu labels incident a &quot;terror attack.&quot;]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:48:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Netanyahu: Beersheba shooting a &#039;great tragedy&#039;</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/netanyahu-beersheba-shooting-a-great-tragedy</link>
			<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:03:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item><item>
			<title>Lapid urges PM to secure his ‘place in history’ by making peace, hails Fayyad’s vision of Palestinian state</title>
			<link>http://www.israel.com/news/lapid-urges-pm-to-secure-his-</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In quotations left out of New York Times interview but subsequently posted on Facebook, finance minister also backs Women of the Wall, praises ‘capable’ Netanyahu]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:23:17 PDT</pubDate>
			</item></channel> 
	                </rss> based on the information passed to the array as formatted above
include "includes/$locations[$location]";

?>