Note: I wrote this post before news of today’s synagogue attack in Jerusalem. I plan a post on the reciprocal terror attacks in Jenin and Jerusalem in the coming hours. There have been many Israeli peace and social protest movements over the years. The rallies for Palestinian peace of the Peace Now era, flawed as […]
Leading Israeli Security Think Tank Warns of End of US-Israel “Special Relationship”
Israel’s leading national security think tank, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), compiled a “strategic assessment” for Pres. Isaac Herzog on the challenges Israel faces in 2023. It didn’t compile one for PM Netanyahu because…well, you know why. There were three highlights. The most important, and in some ways the most shocking is what it […]
Israeli ‘Arsonist,’ Ben Gvir, Stirs Outrage with Haram al Sharif ‘Visit’ While the world thought Netanyahu had stopped his colleague's provocative plan, he gave the firebrand provocateur a green light
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s Terror Minister (aka minister of national security), visit yesterday to the third holiest shrine in Islam posed a deliberate provocation to the entire Muslim world. When he first proposed the visit, Bibi Netanyahu issued soothing words implying he would postpone the plan. In the meanwhile, he actually gave Ben Gvir approval […]
Judeo-Fascist Coalition Affirms ‘Inalienable Right’ of Jewish People to ‘All the Land of Israel’ New Israeli government slaps US in face, explicitly rejecting two-state solution
Yesterday, Israel’s new Judeo-fascist governing coalition was sworn in and ministers assumed their new portfolios. I’ve profiled the most troubling of the bunch here. Here I want to focus on the most problematic “principles” of the new government: “These are the fundamental principles of this national government: the Jewish people has sole and inalienable right […]