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Rabbi David Saperstein exemplifies PEP, progressive except for Palestine. In an hour-long talk, he expressed outrage over ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, apartheid in South Africa and countries that don’t separate religion and state. But never mentioned Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the new charges that Israel practices apartheid, and Israel’s law that gives Jews exclusive land and language rights.

Netanyahu will move ahead to annex territories in Palestine near the Green Line containing Jewish settlements, says Yair Golan of Meretz. “He will explain to the rest of the world, Alright, we did what was reasonable, what was accepted by the Palestinians in former negotations, and what was heavily accepted by President Trump according to his future plan.”