@Nathan: Well. here he is in his own words: “Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is standing by his criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the US goal in the Middle East must be to try to bring people together and “not just support one country, which is now run by a right-wing, dare I say, racist government.” ”
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5498442,00.html
I think this is clear enough not to require any complex interpretation. Don’t you?
@Emet: “corrupt” is not necessarily a legal term.
Wait a minute! This just in! The Palestinians are…..losing hope!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians.html
“We have always lived with hope,” said Mr. Teeti, 57, who with his daughter runs a wedding-planning business. “In our work, we try to create moments of happiness. But the general feeling is that there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.” The West Bank is awash in such despair.
Maybe Jared’s peace plan will save them.
Since the Mueller report is being discussed, and since some folks think to think it shows that Trump is squeaky clean – this just in:
Republicans for the Rule of Law, a conservative group whose stated purpose is “defending the institutions of our republic,” will run an advertisement on Fox News over the weekend to urge GOP lawmakers to hold Trump accountable for the findings in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election….While Mueller’s team did not accuse the president of a crime, it revealed ample evidence of wrongdoing by Trump and his inner circle, dating from his 2016 presidential campaign through his tenure in the Oval Office. …“The Mueller Report revealed multiple instances of President Trump lying and obstructing justice. Twenty years ago, Republicans denounced a Democratic president for lying and obstructing justice,” the 34-second advertisement’s opening reads, before cutting to old clips of GOP lawmakers condemning Clinton on Capitol Hill. “Republicans stood for the rule of law then. We should stand for the rule of law now,” the ad concludes.
@DeBakr: Recently I heard Jeff Halper ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Halper ) speak in the U.S., and the church was packed with Americans who care about what happens in Israel, and the people in the audience I talked to told me that they knew many people who care about what happens in Israel, so I guess you’re right.
This is entirely relevant to the topic here: today Michelle Goldberg had a column in the New York Times about how Omar Barghouti was denied entry to the U.S. – her column is titled “Anti Zionists Deserve Free Speech”. You should be able to freely express your anti-zionism without being hassled by the Hasbara Brigade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/opinion/omar-barghouti-bds-israel.html
(paywall)
“What motivates the criticism of Israel by Jews in the diaspora?”
That’s odd, I never thought of myself as a “diaspora Jew”, I always thought I was an American citizen.
I’m interested in that last sentence – “last night David Brooks of the New York Times endorsed reparations to blacks as a policy idea.”. Brooks has the conservative creds to be a leader on this issue but don’t hold your breath – his son served in the Israeli army ( http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/09/david-brooks-son-idf-israeli-army.html ). Yesterday I heard him on the radio saying that “Israel tried to be a liberal multicultural society but the Oslo peace process failed..”, as if Israel had nothing to do with it.
Netanyahu is too wily to annex the West Bank settlements explicitly, he’ll bend and stretch the law and create entirely new categories of legal theory (just like we’ve learned to give corporations the status of personhood!) that will make the settlements de facto part of Israel and make a Palestinian state impossible. But he’ll make sure there’s some trapdoor he can point to and claim that he hasn’t foreclosed the possibility of two states.
It’ll be the one state-one closet solution.
@Wonderingjew: So what’s the endgame in your opinion? How is this going to end? What do you see for Israel 20 years from now?