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Ex-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo toured the West Bank and warned that settler violence is sowing the seeds of another October 7. Colette Avital sounded a parallel alarm about Netanyahu’s Israel, where fascism exported to Palestinians is now coming home to roost. iPINIONS argues that Gaza was the proving ground, the West Bank is the sequel,… Read more.
Trump wants a Japan-like surrender in five weeks. Netanyahu wants Gaza-like destruction on a far larger scale. iPINIONS argues that one man is chasing vainglory, the other is trying to outrun judgment at home, and both are helping turn a regional war into something darker, wider, and potentially apocalyptic. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/iran-trump-wants-japan-like-surrender Read more.
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 manipulated Trump the way Iago manipulated Othello.… 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.
