A US media report says the détente between Iran and Saudi Arabia has dealt a heavy blow to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had sought a fearmongering campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program and the Islamic Republic’s clout in West Asia.
Iran-Saudi deal throws ‘cold water’ on Netanyahu’s plans, shakes up Mideast: US media
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Unlike any of his predecessors, the president seems to be openly courting the idea of Israeli military confrontation with Iran.
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Palestinians say Antony Blinken’s statements in Jerusalem show the U.S. remains biased. “When the US draws an equivalence between the butcher and the butchered, then it is necessarily on the side of the butcher,” says Ubai Aboudi.
“There is no pressure on Israel to change”: Palestinians respond to Blinken visit to Jerusalem
In a shocking exchange at the State Department, the spokesman for Biden’s foreign policy team refused to describe Palestinians in the West Bank as living under military occupation by Israel.
Biden administration refuses to say Palestinians are ‘occupied’
On Monday, the US and Israel launched massive military drills, which one Pentagon official speaking to NBC News described as the “most significant exercise between the United States and Israel to date.”
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The Pentagon official who spoke with NBC said that the drills show the US has not forgotten about the region even as it is focused on its proxy war against Russia and a military buildup in the Asia Pacific aimed at China. “We still have the excess capacity to be able to flex to another high-priority area of responsibility and conduct an exercise on this scale,” the official said.
US, Israel Launch ‘Most Significant’ Military Drills in History in Message to Iran
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If Netanyahu thinks an Israeli-Saudi lobby to lure the U.S. into attacking Iran is feasible, he’s being reckless, as is Saudi Prince Mohammed if he believes he can manipulate Tehran into some kind of regional understanding
Analysis: Netanyahu and MBS Are Playing a Dangerous Game on Iran as U.S. Shifts From Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to announce his new governing coalition that includes openly racist and fascistic lawmakers (according to reports), and American Zionists have been sounding alarms that the next government will break Israel’s supposedly unbreakable relationship with the U.S.
U.S. Zionists Foxman, Jacobs and Kurtzer sound alarm about Netanyahu’s extremist government
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What in the World Is Happening in Israel?
I don’t think a day passed on this trip when I did not read about or see TikTok or other videos of a Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers or Israelis rammed into or attacked with knives by individual Palestinians. This conflict porn is new, it’s pervasive and it is incredibly effective at instilling hate in 15-second bites that keep everyone in a permanent state of fear and rage
Netanyahu Says US Must ‘Reaffirm’ Alliance With Saudi Arabia
The incoming prime minister said that he wants to build on the Abraham Accords, which his former government signed in 2020 to establish diplomatic ties with Bahrain and the UAE. Netanyahu said it’s “up to the leadership of Saudi Arabia if they want to partake in this effort.”
Saudi officials recently reaffirmed that they seek a Palestinian state as a precondition for normalizing with Israel. But in order to form a coalition government, Netanyahu gave Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich, an ultranationalist settler, sweeping powers over the West Bank.
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Read More »As the World Cup gets fully underway, we can review the massive international campaign to make sure it never happened. The campaign was – obviously – not a success, but it involved at least seven countries and a host of lobby groups, PR firms, think tanks, and front groups. The first part of this investigation looks at the role of “Israel” which started the ball rolling back in 2014.
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