I spent the night in our house in Petrovsky last night, for the first time in more than a year. Although the nazis have been officially moved out of Maryinka, the shelling in Petrovsky (going both ways) is loud and steady, but not as loud and steady as the internet clamor about Sergey Lavrov’s recent interview with RIA News.
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Tag: Yair Lapid
Netanyahu Is Losing the War at Home
Incompetence against Hamas and indifference to Israeli suffering has the public boiling over.
Netanyahu Is Losing the War at Home
Hopefully, he ends up in The Hague!
Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War
The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister, who has prided himself on his vast political experience and irreplaceable wisdom in security matters, completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians.
Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War
Staggering Number of Israelis Consider Leaving the Country: Poll
An Israeli Channel 13 opinion poll indicated that Israel’s very demography will change as a result of the country’s current political crisis.
Staggering Number of Israelis Consider Leaving the Country: Poll
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Exodus: The Israelis Planning Their Escape From Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup
At least they won’t be able to steal any land. 🤷🏼♀️
Israel judicial crisis: Parliament passes law limiting Supreme Court’s power
Police use water cannons to disperse demonstrators who gathered to stop lawmakers from pushing ahead with controversial bill
Israel judicial crisis: Parliament passes law limiting Supreme Court’s power
RFK Jr vows unconditional support for Israel as IDF massacres Palestinians!
RFK Jr’s hasbara makes me want to vomit! 🤮 He thinks children are legitimate military target!! 🤬
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Major Israel Booster
Before that discussion, Kennedy addressed in the interview his views in regard to the nation of Israel, making clear that he is a major Israel booster. Kennedy started off his comments in the interview by stating, “There’s nobody who’s running for president right now in either party who will be a better friend to Israel than me as president, and nobody who will articulate the moral case for Israel with the same erudition, the same persuasive power as me, because I believe it in my heart, it’s core to the values that I was raised with.” Later in his opening comment of the interview, Kennedy declared, “That friendship with Israel and making the moral case for Israel will be a key part of my presidency.”
Kennedy also declared in his opening comment of the interview that he will try as a candidate “to bring the Democratic Party back to its traditional support of Israel and to explain to my children’s generation the historical context and the moral case for Israel.” At least among the top Democratic Congress leaders — and the top Republican Congress leaders as well, though, devotion to the Israel government seems to be running very high already.
Further argued Kennedy in his opening comment, Israel expends great effort at the risk of its own soldiers to “avoid civilian casualties” in dealing with threats from its adversaries and is not an apartheid state. Later in the interview, Kennedy further asserted that a Palestinian has “much more rights in Israel than in any of the neighboring countries” and that “the best place” and “the safest place” in the Middle East for a Palestinian dissident to criticize his government is in Israel.
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Kennedy: ‘As President, my support of Israel will be unconditional.’
Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teens in occupied West Bank
The shootings bring the number of Palestinians killed this year in the occupied Palestinian territories, which includes East Jerusalem and Gaza, to 202, with 165 of those in the occupied West Bank, said Khan.
31 of those killed are under the age of 18, she added.
Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation
Israel’s “right to defend itself” is invoked constantly by its supporters, but international law says Israel cannot simultaneously occupy Palestinian land and attack it as a “foreign” threat, or treat those resisting as enemy combatants.
Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation
LIVE BLOG | Jenin Under Massive Israeli Attack, Many Killed, Wounded
Many Palestinians have been reportedly killed and wounded in an ongoing Israeli military operation targeting the northern Palestinian town of Jenin and its refugee camp. This is considered the most violent Israeli army operation in the camp since the massacre of 2002.
LIVE BLOG | Jenin Under Massive Israeli Attack, Many Killed, Wounded
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WATCH: Palestinian Resistance Blow up Israeli Military Vehicles in Jenin
Iran-Saudi deal throws ‘cold water’ on Netanyahu’s plans, shakes up Mideast: US media
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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Reciprocity: Zelensky Demanded Weapons from Netanyahu for Pro-Israel UN Vote
Reciprocity: Zelensky Demanded Weapons from Netanyahu for Pro-Israel UN Vote
In the previous anti-Israel UN vote (and most other UN votes), Ukraine voted against Israel. That did not go over well in Israel. Israel has also been a world leader in supplying Ukraine with humanitarian aid.
According to a report by Barak Ravid, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday evening asking Ukraine to vote against the UN resolution. Zelenskyy demanded reciprocity and a change in Israeli policy, asking Israel to supply defensive weapons to Ukraine, in particular, against Russian ballistic missiles and the Iranian suicide drones that Russia has been using to attack Ukraine.
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PA Celebrating UN Resolution Asking ICC to Investigate Israel’s ‘Occupation’
The Foreign Ministry and Israel’s embassies lobbied some 100 countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, too, spoke with the leaders of several countries and managed to convince at least five leaders not to vote in favor of the decision – the leaders of Croatia, Togo, Greece, Romania, and Kenya. Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid also took part in the efforts, sending letters to more than 60 world leaders ahead of the vote.
Israel, the US, and 24 other members––including the UK and Germany––voted against the resolution, while France was among the 53 nations that abstained. The US entered Israel’s nay vote since the resolution was passed on Shabbat, a move that UN Envoy Gilad Erdan called “shameful.”
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