Netanyahu May Take The L, But So What? (A. Hu video)

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Benjamin Netanyahu may be behind the polls in the elections, but what does that actually mean for world politics, especially in Israel/Palestine, MENA, and the USA? I see folks celebrating his demise, and some questioning the positive spin on the story

Weakened Netanyahu’s offer of unity government rebuffed by rival Gantz – Yahoo News
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-urges-rival-gantz-form-073201809.html

Netanyahu Lost. His Enemies Won. But Who Can Govern Israel? – The Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/benjamin-netanyahu-lost-israels-elections-his-enemies-won-but-who-can-govern-israel

Israel: Benny Gantz rejects Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘unity government’ proposal – DW
https://www.dw.com/en/israel-benny-gantz-rejects-benjamin-netanyahus-unity-government-proposal/a-50491068

Netanyahu lost but nobody won – Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/the-irish-times-view-on-israel-s-election-netanyahu-lost-but-nobody-won-1.4023967

Israel: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses – Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/04/israel-50-years-occupation-abuses

The end of the Netanyahu era does not mena the end of the occupation – +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/end-netanyahu-era-doesnt-mean-end-occupation/143446/

Media rules explained: Mention Israeli slaughter and Palestinian children in same breath, kiss your career goodbye – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/explained-slaughter-palestinian/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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‘NYT’ gives Netanyahu platform to race-bait Palestinian parties as terrorists without rejoinder

When Donald Trump race-baits minorities, the New York Times offers his targets space to respond. But the Times published Netanyahu’s smears of Palestinian political parties as terrorists without giving them space to respond and repeatedly diminished their achievement in the election, in which they finished behind the two leading Jewish parties.
— Read on mondoweiss.net/2019/09/netanyahu-palestinian-terrorists/

Media rules explained: Mention Israeli slaughter and Palestinian children in the same sentence and say ‘bye bye’ to your career

On the basis of alleged anti-Semitic tropes, numerous critics of Israel, many of them writers of color, have been accused of bigotry for their criticisms of Israel. The latest is Ali Abunimah, accused by Matt Seaton of NYRB. Meantime, you can say anything you like to dehumanize Palestinians and no one in the mainstream will call you out.
— Read on mondoweiss.net/2019/09/explained-slaughter-palestinian/