Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in Gush Etzion, West Bank, January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Selem/Flash90)
Netanyahu wants to turn annexation into his lasting legacy
Nothing would make Netanyahu happier than watching his successor continue to thwart a Palestinian state — even if Bibi has to watch it from the window of his prison cell.
By Meron Rapoport December 5, 2019
Likud parliament member Gideon Sa'ar with Likud supporters during an event in Hod Hasharon, November 25, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
Meet Gideon Sa’ar, the right-wing ideologue embraced by the Israeli left
Likud member Gideon Sa'ar is the new face of the left-wing and centrist anti-Netanyahu coalition. But as his track record shows, he's a staunch right-wing ideologue.
By Naomi Niddam December 2, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files on Iran's nuclear program in a press conference at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Netanyahu’s entitlement is a product of Israel’s social hierarchy
A democracy would ensure that a prime minister charged with corruption should step down. But under Israel’s ethnic and class-based regime, what he did is less important than who he is.
By Shoshana Gabay December 1, 2019
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Thousands take part in a pro-Netanyahu rally outside the Tel Aviv Museum, less than a week after Israel's attorney general announced he would file bribery charges against the prime minister, November 26, 2019. (Oren Ziv)
A pro-Netanyahu rally turns into a forum for deep state conspiracies
Like Trump’s base, the speakers and audience at Tuesday night's pro-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv seemed convinced that someone else is managing their country behind the scenes.
By Oren Ziv November 27, 2019
Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein speaks during a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Jerusalem, November 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Leader of Jewish supremacist group charged with anti-Palestinian incitement
Benzi Gopstein, like Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing long-overdue criminal charges. But both men's indictments change nothing about the racist, expansionist systems that produced them.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland November 27, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a meeting of the right-wing parties bloc at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Netanyahu to be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud
The prime minister has denied wrongdoing in the three cases against him, calling the investigations against him a 'witch hunt' by the media, police, and Israeli left.
By Edo Konrad November 21, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an 'emergency' Likud rally in Tel Aviv, November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
By labeling Arabs an ‘existential threat,’ Bibi invokes a terrifying history of ethnic violence
Netanyahu organized an emergency Likud gathering Sunday night, in which he accused Israel's Palestinian citizens of supporting terror. We know how this kind of thing can end.
By Dahlia Scheindlin November 18, 2019
Mourners attend the funeral of seven members of the Abu Malhous family killed by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral, Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
With Gaza behind him, Netanyahu puts Israel’s Palestinians in the crosshairs
With corruption indictments closing in, Netanyahu hopes his scorched earth campaign against Palestinians will give Israelis the sense that they cannot afford change.
By Edo Konrad November 17, 2019
Palestinians survey the destruction following an Israeli air strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
On the Gaza fence, a call for stability — not vengeance
The latest round of violence in Gaza has already taken the lives of at least 34 Palestinians. Meanwhile, in Israel's southern towns, residents want stability — not more war.
By Oren Ziv November 15, 2019
Palestinians evacuate the wounded from Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on November 12, 2019. Earlier in the day an Israeli air strike killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad field commander Baha Abu Al-Atta. (Fadi Fahd/Flash90)
To save himself, Netanyahu is going to war with Gaza
Even as Israel becomes chronically unable to form a government, the pounding of the Gaza Strip into oblivion persists — and could tip the scales in Netanyahu's favor.
By Edo Konrad November 12, 2019
A Jewish Israeli man holding an Israeli flag confronts a Palestinian woman holding a kaffiyeh on the sidelines of the ultra-nationalist "Jerusalem Day" march, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Jewish-Arab partnership as an antidote to Jewish supremacism
We need to redefine Israeli politics. No more left and right, liberal or conservative, religious versus secular. Instead: a new partnership of Arabs and Jews, working side-by-side to combat Jewish supremacism. By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury Israel has been at a political dead end for many months, particularly since the most recent national election…
By +972 Magazine October 30, 2019
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Fountain Hills, Arizona, before the March 22 primary. (Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0)
How ‘Israel Hayom’ became Trump’s mouthpiece in the Middle East
Sheldon and Miriam Adelson are major donors to the Republican party and to Donald Trump’s presidency. In Israel, their free daily newspaper Israel Hayom promotes Trump relentlessly, with fawning editorials and selective reporting, which minimizes the scandals that have plagued his presidency. By Refael Afriat When Israel Hayom, now the most widely-read newspaper in Israel, was…
By The Seventh Eye October 21, 2019
Some 200 Israelis march from the Turkish embassy to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, on October 15, 2019, in support of the Kurdish militants and against Turkey's incursion into Syria. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The hypocrisy of Israel’s alliance with the Kurds
Israel’s solidarity with the Kurds is duplicitous, not only because it also arms one of the Kurdish people’s biggest oppressors, but also because it supports their independence while denying millions of Palestinians that same right. By Sahar Vardi Messages of solidarity and support for the Kurdish people have dominated Israeli discourse since Turkey’s invasion of Rojava in…
By +972 Magazine October 18, 2019
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