israel politics

Bibi has used the Corona Virus to basically disband the Knesset and seize power. We now have a Jewish Hitler.

Pretty huge announcement out of Israel: This is going to cause some issues in US politics as well!

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/middleeast/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-indictment-intl/index.html

Bibi is under criminal investigation for fraud. "Fake News" accusations in 3..2..1.. From The Guardian: Why does that sound so familiar?

I thought it might be prudent to create a thread focusing on current events as they unfold in relation to The State of Israel. Ron Dermer - Israel's Ambassador to the United States and his stirring address of hope for the future! Despite all the terror and destruction engulfing the Middle...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150317/ml--israel-election-e781dbaf33.html "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared victory after a tight national election appeared to give him the upper hand in forming the country's next coalition government."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4335746,00.html Anyone heard of this party Yesh Atid? The article says centrist, so I guess that they are left of Likud-Yisrael Beteinu. Also, did Obama figure into this somehow? I remember reading some speculation that Netanyahu would be propelled...

Usually I would hesitate to start a thread on Israel, as it would just reinforce the embarrassing level of obsession on display in this forum. (Just look at the first few pages of this subfoum.) But this story is just too good to pass up. One of Maariv main correspondent's, Ben Kaspit, a...

here's interesting bit... http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=196373 Bill approved by vote of 65-33 now requires either Knesset super-majority or a national referendum in order to hand over any annexed territories as part of future peace deal. The Knesset passed the National Referendum...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_palestinians The Israeli Cabinet today passed an amendment to the Citizenship Law, requiring all NON-JEWS who want to become citizens, to swear allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and a democratic state. Jews who become citizens would not have to make such a...

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=189541 This man is an embarrassment to Israel and Netanyahu. At the United Nations today, he called for Israel to trade land populated with hundreds of thousands of Arab-Israelis, for the settlement blocks in the West Bank. Wanting to trade land...

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/education-ministry-revising-textbook-for-being-too-critical-of-israel-1.310751 It is not clear whether this should be categorized as Orwellian or fascist. Perhaps just a bit of both.

Gideon Levy, http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/tricky-bibi-1.302053 regarding a video shown on Israel's channel 10. It was recorded in 2001, without Netanyahu knowing and, in it, he claims credit for destroying Oslo. Levy is quite dramatic, as is his style. Richard Silverstein...

America did welfare reform in 1996. In 2010, Israel is doing it. Although it is the courts, not the political branches making this policy change.

'...Israel's security cabinet has met to consider easing the blockade of Gaza, amid growing international pressure to end the embargo. ..' From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10326569.stm '...The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has described the blockade as a...

'...Embattled and increasingly isolated, a group of politicians are now proposing a bill that would outlaw boycotts against the Jewish State, both homegrown and international. The Land of Israel, a right-wing parliamentary lobby group committed to Jewish settlement of the West Bank, submitted...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100409/pl_nm/us_nuclear_summit_israel They are scared they might actually be held accountable for their nuclear weapons. How dare they demand Israel declare its nuclear status!! Anti-Semites!!

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=171731 They can no longer shoot at stone throwers, shoot in the air to discourage stone throwers, or even shoot at folks with Molotov-cocktails. Now, I totally agree with not shooting stone throwers. I partially agree with not shooting in the air...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141747.html This is how Israel deals with Jewish law breakers. They take years to decide what to do, and then after promising to destroy their illegal construction, they instead decide to give them retro-active building permits. I wonder...if Israel ever...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139374.html I am going to assume that this racist law will not pass. If I was a non-Jewish MK, I would find such an oath highly offensive. The current oath, requires all MKs to swear loyalty to the laws of the State of Israel. That should be sufficient...

'...Israel has announced plans for nearly 700 homes in mainly Arab East Jerusalem - despite Palestinian and international demands that it freeze building there. The US and EU criticised the move, which follows plans unveiled last month for 900 homes on occupied land in Gilo, south of Jerusalem...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364499173&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull How can a country claim to be a democracy, and yet allow such discrimination? How much you wanna bet, the women will be sitting in the back?

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1136383.html i'm sorry...but when does the guilt end? haven't the Germans and other Europeans made enough reparations??? honestly... ...meanwhile, Israel continues to fund more settlements, demolish more Palestinian homes, strip Palestinians of their permanent...

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128144.html "Speaking Thursday at the Hesder yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron , Rontzki referred to Maimonides' discourse on the laws of war. That text quotes a passage from the Book of Jeremiah stating: "Cursed be he that doeth the work of...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443708151&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Only fools, liars, and bigots can still doubt that racism indeed infects Israeli-Jewish society. I think it is high time Israeli society take a hard look at itself in the mirror, and ask themselves...

The Israeli PM announced that he would support an independent, Palestinian State, as long as it was demilitarized, accepted Israel as a Jewish State (i.e. No right of return), and the "families in the West Bank could live a normal life" (i.e. The settlements won't stop). Linky. Wow, almost...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727541394&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Scary how Israel treats its own "Chosen People" soldiers huh? Imagine how they treat non-Jews!!! God almighty.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_politics Labor Party Central Committee votes to accept deal from Likud leader Bibi Netanyahu, and join his new government. Ehud Barak will remain as Israel's Defense Minister, under the terms of the agreement. This is really an...

That's right folks. Our great ally, the vanguard of human rights and freedom in the Middle East, the only Western-style freedom-loving country in the Levant...........100% allows racial, religious, and ethnic discrimination. Where is this racial discrimination allowed? It is allowed in...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlements#Land_ownership http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/954967.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/964843.html In 1979, the Israeli Cabinet voted that NO Israeli settlements were to be built on privately owned land in the West Bank. All...