The whole Israeli election fiasco creeps ever onward. In the words of Macbeth: ...But a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Today, Benny Gantz, a member of the troika leading the Blue and White coalition, threw in … [Read more...]
Netanyahu’s Weaponization of Facebook in Israeli Election Offers Roadmap for Trump 2020
Marc Zuckerberg delivered a shockingly tone-deaf Georgetown speech in which he doubled down on Facebooks's refusal to police false political ad content. He argued that political advertising should be an absolute free speech zone on his platform. His users would, he maintained, be able to judge themselves on the veracity of such ads. He refused to place … [Read more...]
Israeli Election, a “Boisterous Democracy,” and Other Liberal Zionist Nostrums
Though the results of the Israeli election are known, the composition of the next government is not. Both Netanyahu's Likud and the center-right Blue and White coalition lost seats compared to the recent April election. But the latter came out two seats ahead in last week's election. Neither party has enough votes to create a coalition that is far-right … [Read more...]
Trump Abandons Bibi: “Our Relationship is With Israel”
NOTE: I've just published an election post-mortem, Israeli elections: Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic at Middle East Eye. Please give it a read and promote it on social media platforms. It's quite instructive how quickly Donald Trump's loyalties can change given a shift in the political weather. Now that Bibi Netanyahu's career is in the deepest … [Read more...]
