Netanyahu’s legacy: Allying with US hawks and fomenting division in Washington
Israel’s longest serving prime minister beat the Iran war drums for years and finally got the ear of an American president in Donald Trump.
Israel’s longest serving prime minister beat the Iran war drums for years and finally got the ear of an American president in Donald Trump.
The hubbub about how long it took Biden to call Bibi is overblown as Biden is still clearly very pro-Israel.
The Netanyahu government is moving ahead unimpeded with the Trump ‘peace’ plan.
With Biden determined to reenter the JCPOA, Israeli leaders are reportedly considering unilateral military action.
To counter their efforts, Biden needs to hear from proponents of the JCPOA who want to stay on course for re-entry.
With Gideon Sa’ar now leading the charge, it’s almost certain the new White House will face a very hardline Israeli government.
Turkish-Israeli relations have slowly devolved since Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power, but now there’s a chance to change course.
Biden’s Middle East policy will run up against a region where Trump and Netanyahu shattered norms with little consequence.
A series of violent attacks, involving explosions and fires, has been hitting Iran. The incidents have been too frequent and intense to be random accidents. They are part of an organized effort.
Back in 1977, the Likud Party’s platform called for “only Israeli sovereignty” over the land between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.
If there’s a silver lining to Israel’s impending annexation of the West Bank, it’s that it will force the world confront more directly the reality of what Israel has been doing in the occupied territories.
Gantz was never going to stop annexation, but his partnership with Netanyahu will now make it easier for the new government to move forward on it in a more effective way.
Gantz didn’t have the extra motivation to carry on the fight that Netanyahu does of using the prime minister’s position to avoid a criminal trial and, very likely, a prison sentence.
Bringing the Palestinian dominated Joint List into a governing coalition would finally put an end to Netanyahu’s reign but some Israeli MK’s don’t want anything to do with “the Arabs.”
With Israel’s third election in less than a year upcoming, Benjamin Netanyahu is turning to desperate measures to avoid going to jail.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to go to jail so he’s doing anything and everything he can to hold onto power.
There’s nothing in this ‘plan’ that the Palestinians will accept.
The U.S. may have exacerbated the power imbalance further in Israel’s favor but it will not have compelled Palestinians to abandon their own rights and freedoms.
Foreign influence in American democracy has been around a lot longer than Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Despite bluster from the prime minister, Israeli military intelligence doesn’t believe Iran is the greatest threat to the country and it has assessed that Iran is not interested in a “quick breakthrough” to obtain nuclear weapons.
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