by David Preston The Arab party coalition known as the “Joint List” came in third in the recent Israeli national election. This means they could theoretically form either a long-term coalition or temporary voting bloc with either Netanyahu’s Likud party or the runner-up Zionist Uni[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’
March 21st, 2015 - 1:07 am § in Uncategorized
THE Ave Challenge: You SHOULD Know Who He Is!
WARNING: Failure to answer this question correctly could be dangerous to your freedom. A. Muslim director of new movie starring Tom Cruise as “The Prophet” B. Russian commander of “Ukranian” liberation front. C. Iranian commander of Iraqi forces fighting Isis. D. Israeli adv[...]
March 20th, 2015 - 3:36 am § in Israel/Palestine
An Israeli’s View of Bibi
Mirel Goldenberg Hey, hey…In a democratic election a Right Wing Government under Bibi was elected and difficult years will come for Israel as the crooks, demagogues, fanatics and morons will govern over us. However will be no more chances of a Major war that were if my side, the Mahane HaTzion[...]
March 17th, 2015 - 3:13 pm § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: WAR and PEACE: Israel Election too close to call
Exit polls give Netanyahu’s Likud and Herzog’s Zionist Union each 27 seats in the 120-member Knesset. HAARETZ offers a calculator that sows how difficult may be to create any ruling coalition, especially one that is devoted to peace. In any effort to create a ruling coalition, two pa[...]
March 17th, 2015 - 7:28 am § in Uncategorized
Israelis go to the polls
HOLY LAND ELECTION DRAMA BIBI VOWS NO PALESTINIAN STATE Who’s who in the 2015 Israel election? A guide to the right, the left, and everything in between.[...]
March 16th, 2015 - 12:42 pm § in Politics
Bibi’s promise: No Palestinian state, ever!
A desperate Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s likely to lose tomorrow’s election in Israel, tried to rally his political base today by promising there’ll never be a Palestinian state and construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will accelerate if he’s re-elected. Which me[...]
March 13th, 2015 - 2:21 am § in Politics
Did Netanyahu un-elect himself?
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have outsmarted himself, and his Republican hosts may have facilitated his political self-destruction, with their ill-considered and widely panned gambit of trying to undercut President Obama’s Iran policy by bringing in a foreign leader to attack [...]
March 11th, 2015 - 12:23 pm § in Uncategorized
Netanyahu Joins a History of Jews Mislead by Messianic Beliefs
In Judaism, “messiah” originally meant a divinely appointed king, such as David, Cyrus the Great[1] or Alexander the Great.[2] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BC) and the Jewish–Roman wars (AD 66-135), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would [...]
March 9th, 2015 - 11:09 am § in Uncategorized
Anniversary of Bush Library Opening : No mention of War Crimes
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Torture is a slippery slope …
… and other reasons why we shouldn’t listen to the siren songs of those who try to justify it. I’ve often joked to my dentist that if you really want to get information from someone, just hire an endodontist pop out a filling and use his tools with no anesthesia. The subject will[...]