This week, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar held a press conference to offer their views on Israel's ban against them entering Palestine. Perhaps the most important news coming out of the event was Omar's demand that the U.S. withhold part or all of the $30-billion offered to Israel by the Obama administration as it sought to bribe Israel to soft-pedal … [Read more...]
Haaretz Launches Arabic Opinion Supplement to Spur Palestinian Voters, Censors Launch Announcement
Haaretz has just announced a new Arabic language supplement that launched today. The statement did not name the specific contributors would be. But it did reveal some typically condescending attitudes toward the Israel Palestinian minority. Curiously, the statement originally published has been edited and precisely those portions I wanted to discuss, were … [Read more...]
Bibi Murdered Peace and Democracy
pic.twitter.com/P9iG4lpVux — Gil Shech 🇮🇱 (@gilshech) October 3, 2018 תפיצו את ההסתה, ככה זה היה, בדיוק ככה. הקטע שנתניהו מבקש מכולם לא לרצוח את רבין מגיע ב-00:27. pic.twitter.com/6EcMpXuEPK — MrSmoketoomuch (@Azovotibeima) October 21, 2018 An Israeli just posted a 30-second clip of Israeli TV news coverage of BIbi Netanyahu's infamous 1995 speech … [Read more...]
Netanyahu Calls New Election: Deja Vu All Over Again
Bibi Netanyahu's failure to cobble together a governing coalition despite 6 weeks of trying after the last election, is embarrassing. The only thing more embarrassing is his end-run around Israeli law by passing, at the eleventh hour, a bill dissolving Knesset. That denied President Rivlin, one of his arch nemeses, the opportunity to offer either another … [Read more...]
