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.
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Podcast: Armageddon Bargain Between (White) Evangelicals and Jews
Episode 26: Christians Praying Jews Convert … or Perish Listen.
Chutzpah! Netanyahu Playing Arab Card to win Israel’s ‘Jewish’ Election
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.
Trump Sent Jared to Broker a Peace Deal Between the Palestinians and Israelis. But Jared Just Hung Out with Emirati Royals. So Why the Cheers…?
President Trump summoned the press on Thursday to announce the Mideast peace deal he tasked his son-in-law Jared Kushner to broker. Unsurprisingly, he hailed it as the biggest diplomatic accomplishment since Henry Kissinger laid the groundwork for President Nixon’s opening to China. Trump also tweeted a lengthy joint statement between the US, UAE and Israel,… Read more.
Poor Beirut…
The recent history of this “Paris of the Middle East” has been marked by sectarian battles and foreign invasions, which has seen Beirut continually bombed to smithereens. But this is so tragic, it almost seems karmic: A large blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has killed at least 70 people and injured more than 4,000… Read more.
Preview of Gulf War III Starring Trump as Othello, Netanyahu as Iago, and Iran as Desdemona…
The New York Times – of all papers – published an anti-Semitic cartoon on April 25. It depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog leading US President Donald Trump as a blind man. This incited unprecedented condemnation, and rightly so. The literary allusion in my title is decidedly more flattering. But I hope… Read more.
Netanyahu Says Israel Is for Jews Only. And Rep Omar’s the Problem…?
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.
Trump’s Art of Diplomacy Has Europe Siding with Iran against US
A US-led conference in Warsaw this week that was intended to isolate Iran has ended up isolating America instead — highlighting one of the central problems of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. … This annoyed European allies, many of whom sent only low-level diplomatic staff — or no representation at all — to attend the… Read more.
Netanyahu’s Bombshell Presentation on Iran Bombs
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.
Celebrities ‘Boycotting’ Israel the Way They Boycotted South Africa
I stood with fellow students in the early 1980s in calling on corporations and governments to cripple South Africa’s Apartheid regime with boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS). We were trying to force democratic reforms that would grant civil rights to the country’s historically oppressed blacks. I could not have been prouder. But I knew that… Read more.