Lapid believes he has finally found a formula that will allow him to do something that has eluded Israeli politicians for nearly a decade: Defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an election. Just three years after Lapid gave up a successful media career for the rough-and-tumble of Israeli polit[...]
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November 20th, 2016 - 1:56 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
AFTER TRUMP: Can Israel Return to Its Zionist Center?
November 16th, 2016 - 1:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
DAVID BREWSTER: A Recipe for Peace in The Middle East
David Brewster I find this (long) article to be illuminating about the Peace of Westphalia (1648), here given a revisionist interpretation, and how it was achieved, and its lessons for a Mideast peace structure. A key lesson: “Peace will only last if external guarantors collectively enforce re[...]
November 14th, 2016 - 10:08 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
CHINA: A New Moon Rises Over the Wailing Wall
China, as the rising world power, could become the “go to” peace maker. Trump’s campaign rhetoric was jingoistic and anachronistic. His US will move to an isolationist and nationalist pettiness that abandons the traditional role of the US, as heir to the British Empire[...]
November 9th, 2016 - 10:15 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
After Trump: Netanyahu asks Israel’s Supreme Court to extend the December 25 deadline for the eviction of illegal West Bank outpost of Amona.
Jerusalem (AFP) – Fearing political storms at home and a last-ditch Christmad gambit by US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on Jewish settlers to show restraint. A postponement of the evacuation ordered by the Supreme Court of Israel would al[...]
October 4th, 2016 - 4:57 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
HAMAS’ Antisemitism: Why Two States May Never Happen
Following close after Mahmoud Abbas, President of the PLO, courageously attended the funeral for Simon Peres, a movie about about Anne Frank has raised the issue of antisemitism within Abbas’ rivals, the leadership of Hamas. Croatian director Jakov Sedler made Anne Frank: Then and Now to[...]
October 4th, 2016 - 6:20 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Trumpism: Israel May See that Trumpism is a Failure
Progress Reportedly Made in Talks to Bring Center-left Party Into Netanyahu’s Government Israel’s right wing government is based in a coalition built he model of Trumkep. Now, the Israeli pubic, seeing that the uS is turning away form Trumpism may be replacing its own repugnant party w[...]
September 29th, 2016 - 10:20 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Fostering war: HAMAS calls for day of rage as man of peace dies.
Hamas calls for ‘Day of Rage’ during Peres funeral Terror group says ‘Palestinian people are very happy’ at former president’s death, calling it ‘a new phase of weakness’ for Israel Share TIMESOFISRAEL.COM[...]
September 28th, 2016 - 1:14 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
An Israel Boycott I Could Support!
70 US Academics Call For Selective Boycott of Israeli Settlements BDS alienated me and many other Jews. We want peace irrespective of blaming either the Israelis or the Arabs. The ONLY path to peace requires two states. That path may be hard on the Israelis. Palestinians have never had a peace[...]
Is Netanyahu’s Israel’s Donald?
Americans for Peace Now Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak: “[Netanyahu’s] overarching ambition is bound to culminate in either a single, binational state . . . or else an apartheid reality if Palestinian residents are deprived of the right to vote. Both spell doom for the Zionist dream.”[...]