With election day coming on April 9, the polls showed that PM Netanyahu’s Likud Party and the Blue and While of Benny Gantz were still locked in a neck-and-neck race. … Read More ISRAELI ELECTION – POLLS INDICATE THAT ONLY A LAST MINUTE SURPRISE CAN PREVENT A NETANYAHU VICTORY
Internal Politics
UN’S ‘TUNNEL VISION’ ON IRAN, LEBANON & GAZA
UN Knows Nothing About Possible Nuclear Weapons Research At Iranian Military Bases UNIFIL Sees No Signs of Hezbollah Military Build-up in Southern Lebanon Israel Shows UN Secretary General Guterres Hamas … Read More UN’S ‘TUNNEL VISION’ ON IRAN, LEBANON & GAZA
NETANYAHU IMPOSES PARTIAL FREEZE ON SETTLEMENTS
Remember Henry’s Kissinger’s ‘constructive ambiguity’? We are now seeing President Trump’s version of it, possibly on the advice of his special emissary Jason Greenblatt, who recently visited the region to … Read More NETANYAHU IMPOSES PARTIAL FREEZE ON SETTLEMENTS
TRUMP SIGNALS NETANYAHU – HOLD YOUR HORSES ON SETTLEMENTS!
It was not long in coming – President Trump has signaled Prime Minister Netanyahu to back off on building new settlements or expanding any existing settlements ‘beyond their current borders’. … Read More TRUMP SIGNALS NETANYAHU – HOLD YOUR HORSES ON SETTLEMENTS!
ISRAEL REELING FROM UN RESOLUTION OUTLAWING WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu should have known better – but he didn’t. He has now presided over Israel’s greatest diplomatic debacle in years. Bibi knew U.S. President Barack Obama was … Read More ISRAEL REELING FROM UN RESOLUTION OUTLAWING WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS
AN ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ‘TOO FAR’
Common sense will apparently prevail. The government has agreed to comply with Israel’s Supreme Court that some 200 men, women and children must be evacuated from forty homes built on … Read More AN ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ‘TOO FAR’
ISRAEL ENGULFED IN DISASTROUS FOREST FIRES & GERMAN SUBS
If you can’t stab Israelis, burn them? … So far, no people have been killed, but over one thousand homes have been destroyed or damaged while tens of thousands of … Read More ISRAEL ENGULFED IN DISASTROUS FOREST FIRES & GERMAN SUBS
ISRAELI MESSAGE TO TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY TEAM
Does Israel now have two Prime Ministers – one de jure but the other de facto? Gone are the days when Time magazine crowned Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu ‘King of … Read More ISRAELI MESSAGE TO TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY TEAM
President Elect Trump Tells Israel He rejects Imposed Settlement With Palestinians
Israel is split – The Right is jubilant whereas the Center-Left worries that the election of President Trump will spur the Netanyahu government to build new settlements on the West … Read More President Elect Trump Tells Israel He rejects Imposed Settlement With Palestinians
Netanyahu Faces Political Rebellion in Israel
Ongoing genocide of Yazidis in Syria… Yazidis are neither Muslim nor Arab, and follow a distinct faith that is abhorred by Daesh. At this very moment, Daesh is perpetrating genocide … Read More Netanyahu Faces Political Rebellion in Israel