Israeli analysts say the Biden administration thinks Netanyahu “has lost his mind,” there is a growing likelihood of Jewish inter-communal violence, and the country is losing its ability to fight the apartheid label.
Liberal and rightwing Zionists were at each other’s throats this week, even calling for a boycott of Israel. The clash gave Joe Biden an opening to criticize Israel, and further exposed Israeli apartheid.
“In Israeli terms, very, very soft gloves were used on the protesters,” Israeli commenter Neri Zilber says. That’s because the protesters look like the security forces — unlike Palestinians.
After doing all he can to avoid confronting Netanyahu, Joe Biden called on him to halt judicial overhaul and said he’s not invited to Washington. Biden knows major Jewish groups have his back.
The pro-Israel group StandWithUs accused GWU professor Lara Sheehi of antisemitism. A third-party investigation found the accusations were “inaccurate or taken out of context and misrepresented.”
Netanyahu once said that America is “a thing that you can move, very easily.” But maybe those days are over? The media are finally paying attention.
Rep. Adam Schiff on why Israel looked worse than Afghanistan in 2019: “It looked like Israel was heading into a terrible cul de sac and it was incapable of getting off the path that it was on.”
I disagreed with my friends who tried to tell me years ago — Israel will just get more rightwing, messianic, and hateful to Palestinians, and the U.S. government and Jewish community will just enable it. But they were right.
Brace yourself — the next Israeli government will be even more rightwing. That’s because the high tech sector in Tel Aviv, which leads the current protest movement, is a small minority of Jewish Israel.