#Benjamin Netanhayu

[ronnydeschepper]

De peperbus van nonkel Miele (59): anti-zionistische joden

Joden en zionisten, één zelfde strijd? Dat is wat de leiders van de (uiterst) rechtse regering van premier Benjamin Netanhayu willen doen geloven. Het dient om hun misdaden en genocide tegen de Palestijnen te rechtvaardigen en elke criticus te criminaliseren als antisemiet. Prof. José Antonio Egido beschrijft dat veel Joden zich keren tegen het agressieve zionisme.  Hij neemt ons mee in een korte…

[crimethinc]

The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism in Israel: Audio version

https://crimethinc.com/exworker92

In this episode, the Ex-Worker presents an audio version of an article assessing the recent attempts by Israeli President Benjamin Netanhayu to strip power away from the judiciary, a power grab that has precipitated the largest protest movement in modern Israeli history. As our correspondent from the region argues, however, the crisis has emerged out of a conflict between competing elites and their respective colonial models.

Tune in for an in-depth anarchist analysis of a complex and critical struggle for the future of the Middle East and beyond.

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Content warning: war, genocide, Ukraine and Palestine

So... Some of the people reading this may remember when in 2022, the Russian army started shelling cities, blowing up hospitals, closing off utilities, blocking telecommunications and in general, committing war crimes and genocide in Ukraine. Many were all "we must do something!", condemned Vladimir Putin and his generals, and treated Russia's leadership as the dictatorship it is, expressing their concern for the Ukranians escaping the war and genocide.

Now, in Palestine we have the Israeli army shelling cities, blowing up hospitals, closing off utilities, blocking telecommunications and in general, committing war crimes and genocide. While I did seen people condemn Benjamin Netanhayu and his generals, they seem to not treat Netanhayu as a dictator who lets, or even commands, a genocide of Palestinians.

In fact, I seen some people expressing that the Palestinian civilians being killed "deserved it". How do these people think? Like, do they think genocide changes it's meaning just because the people being killed look different from them, or believe elsehow, or live in a very messed up political situation? People die in indiscriminate bombardment, and some say that they "brought it on themselves"? What did a child do to deserve bombs being dropped on their entire street by a general who wants the entire place conquered for their quasi-PM-for-life?

"But the terrorist organisation-" Is QAnon representing the average US citizen? Is every US citizen responsible for the KKK or something? Hamas does the same thing the Israeli generals do: kill innocents. Their goals are the same but mutually exclusive: killing or chasing away everyone and taking over the entire land as their own. Now, it is all about Gaza, but it won't stop there; just like how it did not stopped with Crimea with the Russian army.

"But these situations are different!" Yes. Yes, they are. Does it still changes the fact that generals shell hospitals, deliberately aim at houses and commit all sorts of war crimes, killing people by the score, innocents who don't and should not get any sort of war happening to them? How come it is called a genocide in Ukraine but not in Palestine by the same people? Is it some sort of xenophobia?

Is it because Israel's own population could raise their voice against their leader and get in the news, while the Russians could not? Someone thinks that "oh, the Israeli people say they don't like this, I guess this is OK then, no need for me to raise my voice"? I genuinely don't understand.

People are being killed by bombs and artillery shells, being told by generals leading an entire army that they got X days to leave the entire COUNTRY, and seem to have no issue blowing up or looting relief drops meant for the civilians. That is the situation.

I wish I'd have a solution. All I got is my fears that these genocides will be forgotten when the next dictator starts commanding his generals to blow up houses and hospitals and schools, and we won't see beyond the white phosporous. That we just look at these news reels, and go "there is always a war somewhere", and ignore the innocents dying by the hundreds.

I wish I could do anything.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mike Luckovich

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 1, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 2, 2023

A follow-up to some stories I’ve mentioned:

Egypt has opened its border crossing into Gaza, permitting ambulances to carry 76 badly injured Palestinians to Egypt, while 335 people who hold foreign passports were able to cross.

Jonathan Lemire, Nahal Toosi, and Alexander Ward of Politico reported today that the White House suspects Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanhayu’s days in office are numbered. 

Here at home, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has scored the House Republicans’ bill to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and to “offset” that spending with $14.3 billion in cuts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As those of us who have followed the economics of adequately funding the IRS predicted, the CBO found that the cuts to the IRS would cost far more than they save. As it is currently constructed, the bill would add $26.8 billion to the national budget deficit.

New House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tried to spin this information in a way that can only be described as dishonest: “Only in Washington when you cut spending do they call it an increase in the deficit,” he said.

Johnson rejects the separation of church and state in our government, saying that the framers’ idea “clearly did not mean…to keep religion from influencing issues of civil government. To the contrary, it was meant to keep the federal government from impeding the religious practice of citizens. The Founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.”

Actually, James Madison of Virginia, the key thinker behind the Constitution, had quite a lot to say about why the government and religion must be kept apart.

In 1772, when he was 21, Madison watched as Virginia arrested itinerant preachers for attacking the established church in the state. He was no foe of religion, but by the next year, he had begun to question whether established religion, which was common in the colonies, was good for society. By 1776, many of his broad-thinking neighbors had come to believe that society should “tolerate” different religious practices; he had moved past tolerance to the belief that men had a right of conscience. 

In that year, he was instrumental in putting Section 16 into the Virginia Declaration of Rights, on which our own Bill of Rights—the first ten amendments to the Constitution—would be based. It reads: “That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.”

In 1785, in a “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments,” Madison explained that what was at stake was not just religion, but also representative government itself. The establishment of one religion over others attacked a fundamental human right—an unalienable right—of conscience. If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience, they could destroy all other unalienable rights. Those in charge of government could throw representative government out the window and make themselves tyrants. 

Madison believed that a variety of religious sects would balance each other out, keeping the new nation free of the religious violence of Europe. He drew on that vision explicitly when he envisioned a new political system, expecting that a variety of political expressions would protect the new government. In Federalist #51, he said: “In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.”

In order to make sure men had the right of conscience, the First Amendment to the Constitution reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” 

In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson called this amendment “a wall of separation between Church & State.” In a letter of January 1, 1802, he explained to a group of Baptists from Danbury, Connecticut, how that principle made him refuse to call for national religious days of fasting and thanksgiving in his role as head of the government.  

Like Madison, he maintained that “religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship.” “[T]he legitimate powers of government reach actions only,” he wrote, “[and] not [religious] opinions.”

“[T]hat act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’” he wrote, built “a wall of separation between Church & State.” It prevented him even from such religious practices as declaring a day of fasting in times of trouble, or thanksgiving in times of triumph.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[badxbabyyy]

hkm

me & Benjamin Netanhayu's War General of Israeli in HooolllyywoooOd (save me Fadi Wai Malkosh, ur right there as Brad Pitt)

[radio-rebel-477]

This article details the recent developments within the now-resumed public corruption trial of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Due to the onset of the Israel-Hamas war and a court break for the High Holy Days and Sukkot, the Prime Minister’s trial was on a pause; however, upon resuming, Netanhayu’s defense team requested that there be fewer, a limit of two, hearings per week due to the ongoing war. The request comes from defense attorney Jack Chen, who explained to the judges that he has been in Gaza since the start of the war and is listed to participate in reservist duty one to two times a week. Although the bench has not made the decision to either limit the hearings to two days or expand them to four days a week, Judge Moshe Bar-Am stated [in regards to concluding the trial] that “we need to end this.” The disputed decision to resume Netanyahu’s trial came after Justice Yariv Levin’s issued a state of emergency.

Currently, Netanyahu is on trial for “public corruption,” which has been divided into three cases: Case 1000, Case 2000, and Case 4000.

Case 1000, which is regarding illegal gift affairs, accuses Natanhayu and his wife Sara of receiving valuable gifts of cigars, champagne, and jewelry from Arnon Milchan and James Packer in exchange for political favors.

Case 2000, also known as the Netanyahu Mozes Affair, deals with discussions between the Prime Minister and publisher Mozes about improving the former's media coverage in exchange for restrictions being placed on a competing newspaper.

Case 4000, known as the Bezeq-Walla Affair, deals with millions of shekels given to businessman Shaul Elovitch (a controlling shareholder of Bezeq, a telecommunications company) by Netanhyu in exchange for positive online coverage about the Prime Minister.

In light of my reading, I find no professional way to say this, but I am low-key shocked about the gravity of Prime Minister Netanhayu’s crimes. However, I must say that I am not entirely surprised since corruption seems to be a trend amongst the world’s leading leaders. I will say that I am surprised by the court’s decision to resume his trials since the country is facing a war and the subsequent issues that arise from it, so prosecuting the Prime Minister may not be the most strategic. But then again, I assume that the benefits of prosecuting your country's leader must outweigh not doing so, and if his actions have contributed to the current situation, it seems like a sound decision.

[apsny-news]

Israel salió un nuevo lunes a las calles para protestar contra la reforma judicial de Netanhayu

En Jerusalén, al frente del Parlamento, unas 30.000 personas salieron por segundo lunes consecutivo para protestar contra el proyecto de reforma judicial que pretende pasar el Gobierno del primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu, con el que busca que los jueces del Tribunal Supremo sean elegidos por el Ejecutivo o que las decisiones de la corte puedan anularse en el Parlamento. Los opositores acusan a…

[moonlayl]

[bopinion]

I don't miss...

...Rudy Giuliani in court.

...Benjamin Netanjahu in the Knesset.

...Jeff Bezos in the warehouse.

...Jogi Löw on the coach's bench.

...Donald Rumsfeld in Guantánamo.

I won't miss...

...Boris Johnson in Downing Street No. 10.

...Lobbyists for fossil energy.

...Audience at the Olympics in Tokyo.

...Hungarian politicians in the European Union.

...Matt Gaetz at any high school prom.

[metronn]

LOL my POLS lecturer talking about coalitions in other countries... "in israel, you've got all these parties of different political alignments, wackiest government you've ever seen. how workable is that really going to be? well, very workable, apparently, as long as you all hate benjamin netanyahu together"

[generallemarc]

Thank. Goodness. Idk who the heck this guy is or how he differs from Netanyahu, but Israel has been stuck in this mess since 2019 and at this point literally any government is better than the current tally of 4 elections in 2 years

[otterish]

This is one hell of a photo...

[breaking-news-portal]

Attacks in Gaza intensify as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says air strikes will continue

Attacks in Gaza intensify as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says air strikes will continue

Gaza/Jerusalem: Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes into the early hours of Sunday (May 16), destroying a tower block that housed news media organisations, while Palestinian militants fired rocket salvoes at Tel Aviv. The hostilities showed no sign of letting up as they entered the seventh day, with Palestinians saying at least 145 people have been killed since the conflict began on Monday (May…

[badxbabyyy]

I am Astro Titty/ Guhnehf Dhesheh Bachkhaz/Stripper Cocaine Drug Dealer and inventor of GOLD (gold backed dollar), owner and inventor of Tampa, Florida Hard Rock Casino & alllll casinos. Las Vegas is me & Fadi Malkosh's love town for each other♥️❤️❣️💌ily Elizabeth Mary Grant aka Del Rey and Sarah Mclaughlin, my babbbbyyyy best friend of france, hottest French girl alive other than me, 3rd in line of first women alive. Previous: Mistress. Fadi, orgies? (Fadi Wai Malkosh is only who I'm ever talking to when I say, breathe, or gasp FADDIIIIIII. Fadi baby, we're Gods now, let's be monsters too. ily we're married💍🪐🪙💛🩶Fadi poops honey and u all eat it? can I eat it butt Fadi? I wanna lick ur butt, lolllll teehee ilyyyyyyyyyyyy❤️♥️❣️🫀💋🩸🎩🖤🕶️👓🕴🏼🐍🐍🐍🐍⚕️⚕️🥰

Benjamin Netanhayu was our family friend Fadi Wai Malkosh, as children, we have Israeli ancestors and blood too, I told the world through walls & buildings & shit that you were a Jew too, as am I, Israeli (a) Goddess, Gahlia Lahav, your last name is Lahav as an Israeli Jew soldier of Prime Minister of ISRAEL, most scariest country on earth.

Advice to my Second Father, Benjamin Netanhayu, hottest man on earth, aside from Fadi Wai Malkosh, gold magician: United with the Saudi Arabian King (Real Name hidden so he doesn't, as Royals we're getting rid of Decoys: you have your I.D. card back. I invented all ID's and the entire concept of an I.D.

I'm broken not poor, Adib Rachad Bachkhaz's real full birth daughter,

GLADIATOR GUHNEHF DHESHEH BACHKHAZ, Queen of France Cherry Marmont I, aka Raspberry MARMONT and Blueberry SALVATORE, prince of Italy, and KING OF ITALY (FADI WAI MALKOSH) Sour Apple's SALVATORE'S wife. 🍒🍏🩸🫐

I'm pregnant and birthing myself and Fadi Wai Malkosh as ourselves blood clotty distorted snotty ugly little BEAUTIFUL holy sweet purE ourrrrr evilllll evol L-O-V-E children. My true anger at woman is I LOVE PROTECT AND DEFEND MY MEN (side bitches). And Aicheh Nafun Bachkhaz, my birth sister, molested me as a kid. Fadi Wai Malkosh was molested by Yan Malkosh, evil distorted jealous creature freak old man puppet faggot homosexual creepy old geezard COMMUNIST would let himself be broke, homeless, and starving YAN MALKOSH fake Circassian Arab faggot still grudging why Fadi Wai Malkosh won JORDAN, but doesn't want it because it's a dirty shit town 3rd world country with tents (ARMY), how are you innocent or oure you fake faggot, you MOLESTED AND SEXUALLY TOUCHED A LITTLE BOY who was drowning in yoir guidance. Fuck their guidance Fadi (Wai Malkosh) They are mini shit gross garbage versions of you. We all follow and love you, the evil children. Xxxxxxo I healed you from molestation and you healed me from molestation so forget it, but murder and break Yan Malkosh's neck ome day in war. Or shoot him or whatever, what weapons do we have in war #scared of armies

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New story in Politics from Time: Israel May Be Headed for Its Third Election in a Year. Here’s What Happens Now

Israel has never before held two elections in the space of a year. Now it is facing the prospect of a third. After rerun polls in September, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his centrist challenger Benny Gantz has succeeded in forming a government, raising the probability of yet another vote early next year.

On Wednesday night, Gantz, leader of the centrist Blue and White party, announced that he had been unable to forge a governing coalition. Israel’s political quagmire began after Netanyahu called early elections last November. But following a narrow victory in April he was unable to muster sufficient parliamentary support in Israel’s coalition-dependent system. After he failed to do so again following September elections, Israel’s President handed Gantz the mandate.

In a televised statement Wednesday that denounced Netanyahu’s adherence to his traditional ultra-religious allies, Gantz said he would “not cooperate in an effort to not turn the majority of people to a hostage being held by a small minority of extremists.” Gantz also railed against Netanyahu’s smear campaign against Israel’s Arab population (who make up a fifth of the country), which he described as an attempt to foment “civil war.”

“I was willing to make far-reaching compromises toward forming a stable unity government,” Gantz told reporters in a separate statement, “But Israel’s interest comes before all else. Above all other considerations.”

On Thursday, the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told parliament to find a new prime minister who can command the support of a majority of members of parliament by Dec. 11, or face a third election in early 2020. It marked the first time in Israeli history that the president has been forced to ask parliament to find a government. “The disruptive politics must end,” Rivlin said.

Here’s what to know about the deadlock and how it could eventually be broken.

What stopped Netanyahu and Gantz forming a government?

Secular ultra nationalist Avigdor Lieberman—Netanyahu’s former defense minister—sunk Netanyau’s attempt to form a government back in May, when Lieberman insisted on the passage of a bill mandating Ultra Orthodox Jews to serve in the military. That was unpalatable to Netanyahu’s allies on the religious right. After September elections handed Lieberman a larger share of the vote and fortified his position as kingmaker, he again refused to budge on the military service issue, scuppering Netanyahu’s second attempt to unite the right.

Like Netanyahu and Gantz, Lieberman has professed support for a so-called government of national unity, melding Netanyahu’s right wing Likud with Gantz’ Blue and White party. But negotiations hit a sticking point: Gantz refused to agree on a prime ministerial rotation agreement with Netanyahu, in part because of corruption charges looming over the prime minister; Netanhayu refused to abandon his Ultra Orthodox allies on the right; and Netanyahu’s Likud party members refused to jettison their leader.

An outside option had been a minority center-left government backed by Israel’s Arab-dominated parties, who together comprise the third largest voting bloc in the Knesset. Ayman Odeh, the leader of a coalition of Arab-dominated parties, made such a scenario possible by taking the historic step in September of endorsing a Zionist prime minister: Gantz. But Lieberman, whose backing Gantz would have also required, said a minority government would be a “disaster” for Israel. At a news conference on Wednesday, Lieberman called Arab political leaders a “fifth column.” That was a slur straight out of Netanyahu’s playbook. The prime minister has long been accused of incitement against Israel’s Arab population—including saying on Nov. 17 that a government dependent on the support of Arab parties would be an “immediate existential threat to Israel’s security” and accused them of being terrorist sympathizers.

Is there going to be a third election?

It’s looks likely. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, now has 21 days to nominate a candidate for prime minister: that could be Netanyahu, Gantz, or someone new. Should at least 61 of the Knesset’s 120 lawmakers fail to agree on a candidate within the allotted time, the Knesset will dissolve and Israelis will head to the polls yet again in Spring 2020.

A third election would cost the equivalent of $750 million, the New York Times reports, about a third of Israel’s current budget deficit. It is also unclear it would break the deadlock: voting patterns in Israel’s September elections closely mirrored those in April.

To avoid a third election, lawmakers would most likely have to agree on one of the three scenarios on which Gantz, Netanyahu, and Lieberman could not settle. Namely: Gantz and Netanyahu share the prime ministership; some Likud members defect to the center left; or ultra nationalists agree to sit with either Ultra Orthodox or Arab-dominated parties.

What could break the deadlock?

Two scenarios could alter the Knesset’s calculus: Netanyahu’s indictment or serious military confrontation.

To avoid appearing to interfere in the political process, Israel’s Supreme Court Justice had delayed his announcement on Netanyahu’s expected indictment. Now that Gantz has conceded that he can’t form a government, the announcement could come as early as Thursday. Indictment on the most serious of the three corruption charges he faces would make it near impossible for Netanyahu to form a government either before or after a third election, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reports. But if only the lesser two of the three charges stick, he might still be in with a chance.

Outside the domestic sphere, a serious military escalation could force Knesset members to set aside their differences and unite behind one candidate. Rising tension between Israel and Iran means that is not out of the question. On November 13 an Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander of the Gaza-based militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is supported by Iran. That precipitated a flurry of rockets from the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip and a military response from Israel that left 34 Palestinians dead, including an airstrike that Palestinian medics say killed eight civilians, with five children among them. Israel is also preparing for escalation on its northern border after its military launched airstrikes that killed 21 people in Syria on Wednesday, according to a monitor. Those attacks on Iranian and Syrian “terror targets”, came in response to four rockets launched from Syria at the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, a rocky plateau in Southwestern Syria that Israel seized in 1967.

What does the Israel’s deadlock mean for President Trump’s White House?

Trump’s White House has made no secret of its support for Netanyahu. Shortly before Israel’s April elections, Trump gave Netanyahu a boost by recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. And earlier this week—breaking with decades of U.S. policy— the White House announced it would no longer consider Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal. While both Netanyahu and Gantz publicly welcomed the move, experts told TIME it appeared designed to handicap Israel’s centrists. Nimrod Novik, Israel Fellow at the Israel Policy Forum, a U.S. organization that supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said in a statement that the Trump Administration “keeps empowering our Messianic, annexationist minority.”

Nevertheless, the chances the full version of the White House’s long-billed “Middle East Peace Plan” will be revealed are slimmer than ever. Yossi Mekelberg, an Israel expert at London-based think tank Chatham House says the political deadlock provides another excuse to delay it. “There is no ‘Deal of the Century,’” Mekelberg says. “If settlements are legal, and Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, not of Palestine, and refugees don’t exist, I’m not sure what we are negotiating.”

By Joseph Hincks on November 21, 2019 at 10:43AM