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Elections: Where Hope Goes to DIe

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Elections: Where Hope Goes to DIe

Richard Silverstein March 10, 2020 22

Developments today in Israeli and U.S. elections combined to make me absolutely miserable.  On top of that...

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Israeli Election: the Day After Offers Hope Netanyahu May Be Toppled

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Israeli Election: the Day After Offers Hope Netanyahu May Be Toppled

Richard Silverstein March 5, 2020 5

NOTE: Middle East Eye published a new post-election piece warning that the so-called Likud victory was nothing...

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Netanyahu Ethnically Cleanses Israeli Palestinian Knesset Vote

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Netanyahu Ethnically Cleanses Israeli Palestinian Knesset Vote

Richard Silverstein March 4, 2020 6

הכרעת העם ברורה: 58 מנדטים למחנה הציוני-ימני ו-47 מנדטים למחנה הציוני-שמאלני. אזרחי ישראל נתנו לי קולות יותר...

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Democratic Party Elite Repeat. It’s 2016 All Over Again.

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Democratic Party Elite Repeat. It’s 2016 All Over Again.

Richard Silverstein March 4, 2020 16

It’s deja vu all over again.  2016 revisited, with only a few modifications.  Then Hillary Clinton slugged...

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Super Tuesday as 2020 Watershed Moment

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Super Tuesday as 2020 Watershed Moment

Richard Silverstein March 2, 2020 16

Today was a watershed in the road to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.  It was, of course,...

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Bernie’s Winning, Why F*k it Up?

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Bernie’s Winning, Why F*k it Up?

Richard Silverstein March 2, 2020 18

I’m never surprised by the vile filth spewed by the pro-Israel far right: sometimes here in the...

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Israeli Rabbi Secretly Records Embarrassing Tape of Gantz Election Advisor

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Israeli Rabbi Secretly Records Embarrassing Tape of Gantz Election Advisor

Richard Silverstein February 28, 2020 4

Though the incident which is the subject of this post is garden variety dirty tricks in the...

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Days Before Election, Likud Engages in Palestinian Voter Suppression

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Days Before Election, Likud Engages in Palestinian Voter Suppression

Richard Silverstein February 28, 2020 1

Tearing a page from the Trump 2016 campaign playbook, the Likud Party is engaged in large-scale voter...

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Timely Likud Smear Exposes Alleged Gantz Sex Tape as Election Draws Near

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Timely Likud Smear Exposes Alleged Gantz Sex Tape as Election Draws Near

Richard Silverstein February 26, 2020 1

A few months ago, news broke that while Benny Gantz was IDF chief of staff, his personal...

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Former GOP National Finance Chair, Eliott Broidy, and Convicted Mexican Billionaire, Brokered First Foreign Sale of NSO Group Malware to Mexico

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Former GOP National Finance Chair, Eliott Broidy, and Convicted Mexican Billionaire, Brokered First Foreign Sale of NSO Group Malware to Mexico

Richard Silverstein February 25, 2020 2

בית משפט ישראלי אסר לפרסם את שמו של חוזה סוסומו אזאנו מאצורה בקשר לעיסקת תוכנת הריגול “פגסוס”,מרות...

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Bernie Calls AIPAC “Platform of Hate,” It Calls Him “Odious,” “Shameful”

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Bernie Calls AIPAC “Platform of Hate,” It Calls Him “Odious,” “Shameful”

Richard Silverstein February 23, 2020 14

The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people....

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Who Killed My Uvda TV Segment and Why?

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Who Killed My Uvda TV Segment and Why?

Richard Silverstein February 20, 2020 6

מדוע לא הוקרן ב”עובדה” הריאיון הארוך שערכה איתי אילנה דיין? אולי כי דיברתי על האסיר איקס 2,...

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