A leading U.S. Israel lobby group honors Netanyahu in a morning meeting then throws him under the bus in the afternoon– its CEO saying that a Naftali Bennett government would make it easier to sell Israel to the Democratic Party.
Rightwinger Naftali Bennett, 49, who boasted of killing Arabs, will replace Benjamin Netanyahu under a deal reached tonight with centrist Yair Lapid, Israeli media are reporting.
Israel is reportedly about to ask for another $1 billion in military aid from the Biden administration to replenish Iron Dome batteries.
Jews are in danger. From what, is the question. Are we as a people (if we exist as a people) a Light unto the Nations, or is our narrative a self-intoxication that every ethnic group indulges in? Abba Solomon asks of Jewish identity in the aftermath of the latest Gaza slaughter.
On May 27th the UN Human Rights Council voted to establish an ongoing commission of inquiry to report on rights violations in Israel, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. While this is very similar to the many commissions that have failed to hold Israel accountable in the past, Lori Allen says this one may be different due to the political context in which it is emerging.