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Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu seen after delivering a statement to the media at the Prime Minister residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Why these Israeli elections actually matter
Netanyahu looms so large that he has become a symbol of everything that’s right and wrong with Israel. But behind the symbol stand two very substantive visions of where Israel is headed. Like most weeks over the last decade, this was a week of Netanyahu. It began on Saturday evening when the prime minister gave…
By Dahlia Scheindlin March 29, 2019
Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: Activestills.org)
The paranoid ramblings of a leader who’s lost his grip
Days before national elections, incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays out an elaborate plot to unseat him, which he claims is being run by foreign liberals who want peace. ‘They’ll withdraw to the 1967 boundaries and they will divide Jerusalem — just as Tzipi and Buji promised they would do. They know that unlike Tzipi and…
By Lisa Goldman March 14, 2015
Protest against Israeli strike on Iran (Activestills).
WATCH: Hiroshima Day in Israel – Don’t Bomb, Talk!
Last Monday August 6, the Israeli Disarmament Movement (RPM) held a protest against an Israeli strike on Iran on the anniversary of bombing of Hiroshima. That day 67 years ago in 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki a few days later, ultimately destroying both…
By +972 Magazine August 13, 2012
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Obama addresses AIPAC, campaigns for re-election all at once
WASHINGTON — The stage and the performers looked the same.  But the plot, it appears, has thickened.  Israeli and Americans leaders, speaking once again at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, reiterated their support for both countries, their commitment to cooperation, and the usual rhetoric one would expect to find at an ego-stroking gathering.  But this…
By Roee Ruttenberg March 4, 2012
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WATCH: Bi Bi Pro American
From Noy Alooshe, the guy who created the Zenga Zenga Song. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5lsbp7YmHI&feature=share[/youtube]
By Lisa Goldman May 25, 2011
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