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The fog of war Israel is right, of course. In the fog of war, sh*t happens. Except that, in twenty years of waging war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US never faced credible allegations of genocide for mistakenly killing and intentionally starving people. Whereas, after just three months of waging war in Gaza, Israel found itself in The Hague, accused of genocide.… Read more.
Benjamin Netanyahu struck a deal with far-right Jews to become prime minister. But it’s playing like a deal with the Devil. Those far-right Jews have been persecuting everyone, including Christians That deal gave far-right Jews government power they never had. But they’re using it to turn Israeli democracy into a Jewish theocracy. That has them condoning… Read more.
Donald Trump has boasted about withdrawing the United States from the Iran Nuclear deal as if it were the most impressive diplomatic feat since Richard Nixon opened diplomatic relations with China. And Bibi Netanyahu has boasted about getting Trump to withdraw from that deal as if he had as much to do with it as… Read more.
It’s arguable that Benjamin Netanyahu has been as determined to turn Israel into an apartheid state for Palestinians as Hendrik Verwoerd was to turn South Africa into one for Blacks. This is why I’ve been in the vanguard of those decrying the way Israelis keep voting for Netanyahu. Most notably, former President Jimmy Carter wrote… Read more.
In previous elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast Arab voters as a peril, warning they were ‘heading to the polling stations in droves.’ He threatened two years ago to mount cameras at the polls in Arab communities — a move critics said was meant to suppress turnout — and he has disparaged elected Arab… Read more.
I know. But Abraham Lincoln’s famous warning about a house divided against itself came immediately to mind when I read this: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new unity government was sworn in Sunday, cementing a fragile political alliance with former rival Benny Gantz to end more than one year of political stalemate in the country.… Read more.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is the homeland ‘only of the Jewish people,’ in a new jab at the country’s Arab minority ahead of April’s election. … Arabs comprise about 20 percent of Israel’s 9 million residents. They have full citizenship rights but have faced decades of discrimination. (The Associated Press, March 10, 2019)… Read more.
Frankly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a shameless, irrepressible charlatan. Only this explains his Chicken-Little warnings about Iran being within months of possessing nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the map, which he’s been proselytizing for decades. Mind you, he warned about Iraq in similar fashion. Indeed, it’s arguable that no individual did more… Read more.
Israel plans to revoke media credentials of Al Jazeera journalists and close the network’s office in Jerusalem, the country’s communication minister has announced. Ayoub Kara made the announcement on Sunday during a press conference in Jerusalem, where Al Jazeera was barred from attending. ‘We have based our decision on the move by Sunni Arab states to… Read more.
‘Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,’ Netanyahu said [in a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem late on Tuesday]. ‘And Haj Amin al-Husseini [the then Mufti of Jerusalem] went to Hitler and said, ”If you expel them, they’ll all come here.” “So what… Read more.
