Israel election: The far-right is triumphant. The only obstacle left is Netanyahu

As 13 parties struggle with Israel’s complex post-election maths, seeking alliances that can assure them power, the most significant outcome of the vote is easily missed. The religious fundamentalists and settler parties – Israel’s far right – won an unprecedented and clear-cut victory last week.

Israel election: The far-right is triumphant. The only obstacle left is Netanyahu

The Intellectually Superior Perpetual Victim Again on Display

By Philip Giraldi | Unz Review | March 16, 2021

Those who have followed developments in the Middle East would likely agree that Israel covers up its war crimes and other human rights violations by regularly invoking its own victimhood. Whether the subject is U.S. aid to the Jewish state or media coverage of the illegal expansion of Israel into the West Bank, one will always find references to the so-called holocaust or claims of anti-Semitism to discredit any criticism. And the results of this assiduous effort to assign guilt are clearly seen as the mainstream media in both the United States and Europe exhibits considerable reluctance to report honestly on what is being done to the Palestinians while politicians in the west sometimes appear to count themselves more as “friends of Israel” than as representatives advancing the interests of their own constituents.

The Intellectually Superior Perpetual Victim Again on Display

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine

NETANYAHU PUTS A RED LINE ON AN IRANIAN BOMB CARTOON DURING A SPEECH TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SEPTEMBER 2012. SCREENSHOT.

Some day historians will scratch their heads over the fact that for the better part of 20 years U.S. presidents were engaged as a leading foreign policy question in how to restrain Iran, a small country half the world away that has not attacked the U.S., that does not have nuclear weapons, that is the seat of ancient civilization, and whose contribution to regional instability doesn’t look any worse than Israel’s or Saudi Arabia’s.

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine