DONATE: While the world's attention is rightly focused on the Coronavirus pandemic, it has lost sight of many other critical global developments. I have in fact noticed that the site traffic to this blog has declined considerably during this period. I am concerned that the world is ignoring crucial issues, even ones that have a direct connection to the … [Read more...]
Knesset Speaker Resigns, Provoking Major Political Crisis
Today, Israel's Knesset Speaker, Likud veteran, Yuli Edelstein, resigned rather than follow a Supreme Court directive to convene the legislative body. He had adjourned it with the excuse that the Covid-19 epidemic rendered it too dangerous to meet. The Court had ordered him to reopen proceedings to elect a new Blue and White Speaker. But in the event of a s … [Read more...]
Israel’s Shin Bet Transforms Mission from Hunting Terrorists to Hunting the Sick
One of the many anti-democratic ploys unleashed by the Likud in the last dying days of its control over current Israeli politics, was the end-around Bibi Netanyahu did circumventing the Knesset to employ a secret database of all Israeli citizens and monitor them for Covid-19. The NY Times reports that a 2002 directive permitted the Shin Bet secret police to … [Read more...]
Israeli Supreme Court Orders Likud Speaker to Reconvene Knesset, Relinquish Power to Blue and White
NOTE: Middle East Eye published my latest piece on the Likud's soft coup preventing the Opposition Blue and White taking control of government after its election victory. I'm grateful if you'd give this piece visibility by reading and promoting it on Facebook and Twitter. Israel's de facto governing Blue and White coalition has been prevented from taking … [Read more...]
