Binyamin Netanyahu (Photo: Amit Shabi) Jewish Home Ministers Naftali Bennet & Ayelet Shaked (CC Wikimedia Commons) What’s going on? Twice in the last week US President Donald Trump has opposed … Read More WILL NETANYAHU AND TRUMP CLASH OR COOPERATE OVER SETTLEMENTS?
Internal Politics
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 AWAITS TWO SAVIORS
President Trump speaking at his inauguration ceremony Yair Lapid Israel’s Right wing fervently hopes and believes US President Donald Trump will reverse America’s former policy that opposed settlement building in … Read More ISRAEL AWAITS TWO SAVIORS
ISRAELI EARTHQUAKE IF ISRAEL’S ATTORNEY GENERAL PROSECUTES BIBI FOR FRAUD
Left to right: Netanyahu, Mandelblit Left to right, Avi Gabai, Gilad Sher The four soldiers killed in the truck attack The fate of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is now in … Read More ISRAELI EARTHQUAKE IF ISRAEL’S ATTORNEY GENERAL PROSECUTES BIBI FOR FRAUD
ISRAELI COURT-MARTIAL RAISES SPECTER OF ANOTHER ‘RABIN’ ASSASSINATION
IDF soldier on trial, Elor Azaria Gen. Eizenkot The IDF court-martial convicting IDF Sergeant Elor Azaria guilty of manslaughter for shooting dead a captured Palestinian terrorist has sent shock waves … Read More ISRAELI COURT-MARTIAL RAISES SPECTER OF ANOTHER ‘RABIN’ ASSASSINATION
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