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Biden’s feckless threat President Biden threatened to stop supplying offensive weapons to Israel if it invades Rafah. Over a million Palestinians fled there after Israel invaded northern Gaza. Both Republicans and Democrats are making much ado about this threat: Republicans are accusing Biden of betraying Israel. They’re virtue signaling by drafting legislation in a vain attempt to force… Read more.
Surely only that explains Israel defying pleas, even from the United States, to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. And, frankly, it doesn’t give a damn about the damning historical symmetry afoot. Read more.
Israel is withdrawing from the occupied city of Jenin in the West Bank today. On Monday, Israel launched the biggest military operation in the Palestinian Territories in 20 years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims the mission was to cull terrorists from safe havens in the Jenin refugee camp. And he’s hailing it as “mission accomplished.” Israel invaded Jenin… Read more.
Israelis protesting Judicial Reforms Israelis have been mounting judicial reform protests since early January. The government’s plan to enact sweeping judicial reforms triggered them. They see the plan as a brazen attempt to help PM Netanyahu escape justice. He’s on trial for corruption and breach of public trust. Beyond that, Israelis fear these reforms will undermine their… Read more.
Netanyahu forms apartheid government Benjamin Netanyahu has formed the most right-wing government in Israeli history. Nobody should be surprised. But his right-wing coalition partners are pipers who will make him pay. They include Itamar Ben-Gvir. He was convicted of incitement to racism and support for a terrorist organization. Now he’s security minister, head of the… Read more.
But, in doing so, it sacrificed religious pride for political gain. Now it has neither. An evangelical pastor who former presidential candidate Mitt Romney denounced as a ‘religious bigot’ delivered a prayer at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday. … Romney criticized the choice of a man who has said all… Read more.
President Donald Trump made much ado about recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah reacted as expected. He called for a new Palestinian intifada, condemned America, and urged Lebanon to cut all ties with Israel. Call for Intifada To punctuate his clarion call, Nasrallah insisted that: If the Palestinians undertake an intifada, the Arab and Muslim… Read more.
President Trump on Wednesday formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City. Mr. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem isolates the United States on one of the world’s… Read more.
Netanyahu will never miss an opportunity to undermine peace with Israel’s enemies — even if that means making enemies of Israel’s friends. (“Chutzpah: Israeli PM to Address US Congress,” The iPINIONS Journal, January 23, 2015) Bear this quote in mind as you read below. A truly stupefying feature of the relationship between Israel and the… 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.
