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The Palestine Problem
“Israel is outraged over the legislation against it in the Dail which is indicative of hypocrisy and anti-Semitism.” That was the statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Takeaways From The Israeli Election
The Israeli elections are over, and the outcome largely matched the predictions. The Blue and White coalition amassed enough votes to match Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, but only Likud has a path to...
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More Israeli Elections: What Happens Now?
Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has succeeded in bringing down Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government before it formed. The elections held in April mean little now, although that Knesset...
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More Intrigue In Israeli Elections
A familiar face has introduced something new into the upcoming Israeli elections in September. Former prime minister Ehud Barak has formed a new party ahead of those elections and is working to unite...
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Israel’s Post-Election Tangle
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin The second Israeli national election of 2019 has led to a lot of confusion. It has not resolved the question of who will fill the prime minister’s office on a permanent...
View ArticleHow Trump’s Israel-Palestine ‘Peace Plan’ Will Kill the Two-State Solution
The “Deal of the Century,” the mythical agreement floated for most of Donald Trump’s first term in office, is on the table again. Earlier this month, Avi Berkowitz, Trump’s new envoy to the equally...
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Netanyahu is giving more gifts to the right-wing in his fight to hold power
On March 2, Israelis will go to the polls for the third time in a year to try to elect a prime minister and a new Knesset. They are frustrated and exhausted from the ongoing electoral campaign, the...
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Gantz agrees to join Netanyahu in unity government — what does it mean?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, take part in a ceremony formally promoting Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, center, to lieutenant general and making him...
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Israel’s unity government protects Netanyahu from prosecution, paves the way...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning victory after three rounds of elections spanning more than a year is now complete. The man who last year surpassed David Ben-Gurion as the longest-serving prime minister...
View ArticleAnother Round of Israeli Elelctions
Israel is going to hold its FOURTH round of elections in two years in March. Based on early polling, it looks like the choice for Israeli voters will be between a corrupt right wing-religious...
View ArticleAIPAC wants to decide who can run in Palestinian elections
It’s not hard to tell when an individual or an organization isn’t really interested in finding a way to end the Israeli occupation, no matter what they say about a “two-state solution.” Virtually...
View ArticleIsraeli elections: The view from Washington
Another Israeli election is upon us. Election day in Israel, though, is only the beginning of a long process of political jockeying and deal-making in the hopes of emerging with a stable governing...
View ArticleWhat the new government in Jerusalem means for US-Israel relations
There will be no policy changes from this new Israeli government regarding the Palestinians or Iran. But for the Biden administration and activists in the US, there will be some new twists. Joe Biden...
View ArticleHow the Israeli government shake-up will affect US-relations
Israeli Prime Minister lost his parliamentary majority last week. Not a lot changes in the short term as a result, as this government went from being able to do very little because of the opposing...
View ArticleIsrael Goes Back to Elections: What You Need to Know
Here we go again, folks. Israelis are going back to the polls. It’s actually amazing that the cobbled together Bennett-Lapid coalition gave them this long a break. In my latest piece for Medium, I...
View ArticleBiden’s response to the rightwing whirlwind in Israel — weakness
Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t even formed his government yet, but already we are beginning to see how that new government will make things difficult for the White House. And the early indications from Joe...
View ArticleCan the U.S.-Israel relationship survive a far-right government?
The obnoxious and hubristic Israeli response to the FBI deciding to open an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh highlights the growing tensions...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s ‘hands are on the wheel’ again — and Joe Biden is just fine with...
Ever since it became clear that Benjamin Netanyahu was likely to return as Israel’s prime minister and that he would be bringing in a government that, even for Israel, was radically right wing, Joe...
View ArticleMKs from a wide spectrum of the Knesset call for mass transfer of Palestinians
It is hard to fathom anyone but the woefully uninformed and the willfully ignorant still believing this assault on Gaza was a war on Hamas when it has plainly been Israel using the horrific events of...
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