23:21 05/10/2012 Operetta in 5 Acts: Netanyahu’s Own Theater By Uri Avnery The master magician has drawn another rabbit from his top hat. A real and very lively rabbit. He has confounded everybody, including the leaders of all parties, the top political pundits and his own cabinet ministers. He has also shown [...]
Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem December 25, 2011. (REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/Pool) Netanyahu Crowns Himself King of Israel Will the Israeli left finally stir? by Jonathan Cook Israelis barely had time to absorb the news that they were heading into a summer election when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday [...]
Israel and the Power Struggle over Iran By Ludwig Watzal Should Israel attack Iran’s nuclear installations? Over this question, a fierce dispute flared up among Israel’s security establishment. In the beginning of the year, the former chief of the Israeli Mossad, Meir Dagan, was a lone voice in the wilderness. [...]
Israel Rides the Rollercoaster of Mass Hysteria By Ilan Pappe April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Spending a week in Israel these days is like being trapped within a scene from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Like Jack Nicholson in the lead role of that classic film, you [...]
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Said Jalili gives a press conference on April 14, 2012 as Iran and six world powers open talks on Tehran‘s disputed nuclear program in Istanbul, Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images Why Netanyahu’s Afraid of Diplomacy by Trita Parsi Apr 17, 2012 2:00 PM EDT Netanyahu and Obama [...]
Israeli Experts Mum on Iran Attack to Support Bibi’s Bluff By Gareth Porter* TEL AVIV, Apr 2, 2012 (IPS) – A striking feature of the Israeli political landscape in recent months has been the absence of a serious debate on the issue of the threat of war with Iran led [...]
By Steven Jonas (about the author) opednews.com The sage Israeli commentator and activist Uri Avnery recently published an excellent analysis of the Israel/Iran situation on The Planetary Movement (1). Mr. Avnery presented the full list of strategic reasons why it is highly unlikely that Netanyahu will launch such an attack. It would result in: the [...]
Heading for War on Iran By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 17 March 2012 Heading for War with Iran by Stephen Lendman Israel wants it. So does Obama, but not until after November elections. Policy now focuses on winning. Waging more wars can wait, except for Syria, despite strong public support for [...]
“The most dangerous man in the world” Netanyahu v Obama By Alan Hart March 16, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The headline over an article in Ha-aretz by Bradley Burston on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s poker game with President Obama was If Obama wins in November, is Netanyahu in trouble? That’s a question I’ve had in my [...]
Netanyahu is Preparing Israeli Public Opinion for a War on Iran In response to Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech, Haaretz’s editor-in-chief says that what looks like a preparation for war, acts like a preparation for war, and quacks like a preparation for war, is a preparation for war. By Aluf Benn March 15, 2012 “Haaretz” [...]
Mr. Netanyahu, according to best selling author and senior writer at Al-Akhbar English Max Blumenthal, is “playing on the sustained historic trauma of Jewish people in Israel to indoctrinate them to support his policies.” So much so Israeli publications with the exception of Ha’aretz, by their silence on condemning his call for a military strike, [...]
Netanyahu’s Conspiracy to Drag the U.S. to War ‘Sometime between early June and mid-August, just before the Republican nominating convention, will be the ideal moment to drag the United States into war, the planners believe.’ By Sefi Rachlevsky March 06, 2012 “Haaretz” — Let’s assume that everything goes beautifully. Defense Minister [...]
Will Bibi Break Obama By Pat Buchanan March, 02, 2012 — The prime minister of Israel is angry with Barack Obama and is coming here to force a hardening of U.S. policy toward Iran. “Bibi” Netanyahu had his anger on display at a meeting in Israel with Sens. John McCain [...]
In these two articles on the coming war with Iran there is a good deal of analysis of the real position. Israel clearly wants an all out confrontation but is unwilling to take the sole responsibility for that happening. Despite many years of trying to get the US [...]
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a conference for Israeli diplomats. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner, File) By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Lawyers for Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman face a final hearing on Tuesday to argue against his being indicted on graft charges that would force his resignation and could trigger early Israeli elections.Justice officials announced [...]
The ‘Invented People’ Stand Little Chance by Robert Fisk Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can deny the [...]
The Stolen War by Uri Avnery, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Is there no limit to the villainy of Hamas? Seems there isn’t. This week, they did something quite unforgivable. They stole a war. For some weeks now, our almost new Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz, [...]
Obama Seeks to Distance US From Israeli Attack by Gareth Porter, January 04, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in intense maneuvering over Netanyahu’s aim of entangling the United States in an Israeli war against Iran. Netanyahu is exploiting the extraordinary [...]
Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich andMitt ”Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney. Both are political whores locked in a competition of their own as well as with President Obama for Zionist lobby organized campaign funds and American Jewishvotes. (In a very close election race the latter could determine who becomes president). The [...]
A new plot Netanyahu’s aides think that the recent massive media coverage of various manifestations of violence and discrimination against women are part of a plot to topple him. By Yossi Verter Self-deprecating humor is the most essential quality for a politician. A politician endowed with this rare characteristic will be less irksome to those around [...]
I often say that critics of Israel and America’s unconditional support for it are wrong to call the monster that has Congress by the testicles the “Israel lobby“. That description of it implies that it speaks for all Israelis. It does not and in Ha’aretz recently there was a remarkably good analysis of what’s happening in Israel which illustrates, proves, my [...]
It’s now clear that the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House is Israeli Prime MinisterNetanyahu. Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich andMitt ”Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney. Both are political whores locked in a competition of their own as well as with President Obama for Zionist lobby organized campaign funds and [...]
Fighting Settlers’ Impunity and Immunity by Pierre Klochendler, December 16, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum JERUSALEM – The outer stone walls of the unused 12th century Ayyubid mosque in the Israeli center of the city carried the black scars of attempted arson and hatred. “Price tag”, [...]
Minaret of Al-Bahr mosque is seen next to the beach in the ancient port city of Jaffa.(MaanImages/file) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed support for a bill to ban mosques from using loudspeakers for the Islamic call to prayer. “There’s no need to be more liberal than Europe,” [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Cautioned by Washington about the risks of a military strike on Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday about making “the right decision at the right moment,” even when [...]
The genie is out the bottle. (ISM, Al Jazeera, Paffairs Sanfrancisco) By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth As protests raged again across the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, offered his assessment of the Arab Spring last week. It was, he said, an “Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave”, adding that Israel’s Arab neighbours were [...]
Netanyahu is now the last hope for Israeli democracy Netanyahu is liable to find himself very quickly in a situation in which he won’t be able to stop the weakening of Israeli democracy. By Gideon Levy Benjamin Netanyahu is a democrat, though of course there are people who are more democratic than he. He [...]
Hardline Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, seen here in July, last week suspended his ministry’s cooperation with the Israeli spy agency. (AFP/Gali Tibbon, File) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called in Israel’s top diplomat and the Mossad spymaster on Sunday to try to end a feud that has harmed ties between [...]
Israel must topple Netanyahu before it’s too late If Israel wants to continue existing, PM Netanyahu must suffer a similar fate to that suffered by Neville Chamberlain before the clouds clear. By Sefi Rachlevsky A democratic state prepares for an existential battle by involving all its citizens and forging international alliances; a [...]
Why should anyone believe Netanyahu? How many politicians, media people and ordinary citizens believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sincerely interested in reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians? By Akiva Eldar If the law enabled putting leaders on trial for serial defrauding of the public and obtaining support through deception, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [...]
Spilling the Beans About Bibi by Uri Avnery, November 14, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “You can lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all of the time.” This [...]
IsraelMFA (CC-BY) German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly told her cabinet that “every word that leaves [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s mouth is a lie.” In the same week that Presidents Obama and Sarkozy accidentally “outed” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a liar in front of a crowd of senior French journalists, WikiLeaks released a diplomatic [...]
Israeli PM Netanyahu ‘seems to think it’s always 1938′ and that Iran has channeled the spirit of Nazi Germany to commit another holocaust against a powerless and weak Jewish community [GALLO/GETTY] Christmas did not arrive early for the “Bomb Iran” crowd. Over the past several weeks, neoconservative hawks were gleefully predicting that the International Atomic [...]
Image 1 of 2 Israeli jets could target sites such as the nuclear power plant at Bushehr, right Photo: GARY DAWSON/AP By Adrian Blomfield, in Jerusalem Israel refuses to tell US its Iran intentions Israel has refused to reassure President Barack Obama that it would warn him in advance of any pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, raising fears that it [...]
Israel Postpones Dismantling Illegal Settlements Israel had initially promised to force an evacuation of the illegal settlement but has kicked it at least six months down the road by John Glaser, November 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Israeli government says it is postponing the dismantlement of illegal Jewish settlements in the West [...]
Israeli soldiers role playing as mock victims lie on the ground during a drill simulating a missile attack in Holon, near Tel Aviv Nov. 3. (Reuters/Nir Elias) By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Menachem Begin did not pull his punches. In 1981, as work neared completion on an Iraqi nuclear reactor that Israel believed [...]
All the genuine attributes of a used car salesman Report: Germany rethinks submarine sale to Israel Published today (updated) 26/10/2011 20:29 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Germany is reconsidering its decision to sell Israel a sixth “Dolphin” class submarine, Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Wednesday. According to a report in Ynet, a [...]
Netanyahu aheralded a steady stream of insults. (UN Photo) By Ramzy Baroud During his deliberately offensive speech on September 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the General Assembly as ‘the theater of the absurd.’ Israel’s few friends at the United Nations – led by the US delegation – listened gleefully and applauded as Netanyahu [...]
Lieberman walked out of Shalit deal debate, leaving ‘no’ vote behind Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon. Photo by: Tomer Appelbaum Haaretz goes behind the scenes of the stormy cabinet meeting that led to approval of the deal to secure the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. By Barak RavidTags: Gilad [...]
Israel Builds Settlements and Wants Talks by Pierre Klochendler, October 04, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum JERUSALEM — Days after his halfhearted conciliatory U.N. appearance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already approved the construction of 1,100 flats in occupied East Jerusalem. Yet on Sunday, he threw his support behind the new Mideast Quartet’s peace [...]
Palestinian Freedom Later, Not Now O by STEPHEN LENDMAN on OCTOBER 3, 2011 October 2, Haaretz said “Israel accepts Quartet peace plan,” making Palestinian UN membership conditional on negotiating peace with an unwilling partner. No matter that decades of on-and-off talks never achieved resolution and won’t now. Moreover, Israel doesn’t negotiate. It demands. As a result, restarting [...]
Captain Netanyahu‘s crew is running Israel aground It is true that the Palestinians also bear a large share of responsibility for the impasse, but can the government truly say its own hands are clean? By Doron Rosenblum This week, we learned that the commander of an Israel Navy vessel was jailed for seven days for [...]
Netanyahu‘s messianism could launch attack on Iran The Lubavitcher Rebbe, whose followers stood behind Netanyahu’s victorious campaign in the 1996 election. Photo by: AP Relying on the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his teachings in a speech that was ostensibly in favor of a Palestinian state is like relying on a racist who fervently supports slavery in [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu‘s defense of the siege on Gaza was “criminal.” Haniyeh: Netanyahu speech ‘desperate’ Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 20:34 Netanyahu told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Friday that the Gaza Strip had been taken over by “militant [...]
No Peace or Justice in Our Time with Netanyahu By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 24 September 2011 No Peace or Justice in Our Time with Netanyahu – by Stephen Lendman Like his Washington paymaster/partner, Netanyahu deplores peace. Initiating talks never worked before and won’t now. Speaking privately at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New [...]
Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 25 September 2011 Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace – by Stephen Lendman As a belligerent modern-day Sparta, Israel is a pariah state. Netanyahu exceeds the worst of Ariel Sharon. His government is Israel’s worst ever. His majority Knesset allies are rogue, racist criminals, operating outside [...]
No Peace or Justice in Our Time with Netanyahu – by Stephen Lendman Like his Washington paymaster/partner, Netanyahu deplores peace. Initiating talks never worked before and won’t now. Speaking privately at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, Bill Clinton said Netanyahu lost interest because Palestine has a president he controls, and normalizing relations [...]
