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Netanyahu and his coalition are Israel’s most dangerous threat
Israel weighs expelling UK officials from Gaza coordination center amid settlements row I’m damn tired of ‘pro-Israel’ being used by both media and, especially, in social media as an insult or point of indignation. It creates the assumption that the opposite of ‘pro-Israel’ is no Israel, which is as ludicrous and unrealistic as saying ‘no’ France or ‘no’ Germany. Earlier today I saw a negative reference to the ‘pro-Israel’ Jared Kushner.
Netanyahu and his coalition are Israel’s most dangerous threat
Israel weighs expelling UK officials from Gaza coordination center amid settlements row I’m damn tired of ‘pro-Israel’ being used by both media and, especially, in social media as an insult or point of indignation. It creates the assumption that the opposite of ‘pro-Israel’ is no Israel, which is as ludicrous and unrealistic as saying ‘no’ France or ‘no’ Germany. Earlier today I saw a negative reference to the ‘pro-Israel’ Jared Kushner.
Psychologists helped Iran manage Trump. Israel is now at even more risk
Iran Brought Two Psychiatrists To Negotiate With Trump Due to His “Mental Illness.” He Never Stood A Chance. Trump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran’s aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained There is no agreement between the US and Iran…just a piece of paper with electronic signatures that promises to keep talking about talking for which JD Vance has given handed primary responsibility. That makes JD scapegoat number one.
Psychologists helped Iran manage Trump. Israel is now at even more risk
Iran Brought Two Psychiatrists To Negotiate With Trump Due to His “Mental Illness.” He Never Stood A Chance. Trump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran’s aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained There is no agreement between the US and Iran…just a piece of paper with electronic signatures that promises to keep talking about talking for which JD Vance has given handed primary responsibility. That makes JD scapegoat number one.
Israel doesn’t control Trump or the US any more than Jews control banks or media
Trump let Bibi drag him into Iran.’ I realize this is a single sentence but I’m so tired of the deeply misleading simplicity with which it is routinely written over and over. And I’m not going to link to the specific article this time inasmuch as this nonsense has become standardized across media and social media while pushing – deliberately or not – dangerous antisemitic tropes.
Israel doesn’t control Trump or the US any more than Jews control banks or media
Trump let Bibi drag him into Iran.’ I realize this is a single sentence but I’m so tired of the deeply misleading simplicity with which it is routinely written over and over. And I’m not going to link to the specific article this time inasmuch as this nonsense has become standardized across media and social media while pushing – deliberately or not – dangerous antisemitic tropes.
The Blogs: We are historical 'Zionists.' How should we identify now?
Why antizionism is spreading – and why it endangers Jews everywhere This is an excellent commentary.
The Blogs: West Bank violence is NOT Netanyahu's 'handful of kids'
Netanyahu: ‘Handful of kids’ not from West Bank behind rising settler violence Netanyahu’s comments with regards to still escalating settler violence in the West Bank is not an opinion or perspective – but an outright lie. I have to wonder what Netanyahu has said to the Israeli media or if this nonsense is what he is slinging to his American audience.
The Blogs: No, the war's not over. There's still a real estate deal in the rubble
Waiting for Ran Gvili No, the Netanyahu and Trump war in Gaza is not over. Not by a long shot. That Ran Gvili’s body has, inexplicably, not yet been returned, is one reason. You’d think that Trump or one of his business agents, either Witkoff or Kushner, would put in a direct call to Hamas. But their priority is now to create a real estate deal on the blood of dead Israelis and Gazans. I think an overriding reason the war in Gaza is not over is because neither Netanyahu nor Trump want it to be over.
The Blogs: Hamas' preparation for 10/7 was hidden in plain sight by a political agenda
The intel on Hamas attack plan was there, but IDF simply refused to believe it, probe finds I follow David Horovitz but was disappointed by his op-ed of 19 November. I agree with his premise with regards to Netanyahu’s culpability in and responsibility for October 7. Netanyahu certainly wasn’t the cause. That belongs solely to Hamas.
Lou Sandler, at The Blogs
I was born in Baltimore, MD and have since had a wide range of experiences including a year plus in Israel. I've been a progressive organizer, writer/media spokesperson, coordinator and freelance. I am a PhD level Clinical Behavioral Analyst specializing in severe behavioral need in children (and adults) and their families. I write through no ‘agenda or special interest’ other than being a passionate supporter of Israel and Israel's future.
The Blogs: Towards a New 'Zionism'
The truth about Zionism “Zionism is nothing more – and nothing less – than the Jewish people’s sense of origin and destination in the land linked eternally with its name” This was a powerful and positive representation beautifully articulated by Chaim Herzog fifty years ago when, as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, he confronted a UN resolution which identified that “Zionism is a form of racism.” Though the resolution was later revoked due to Herzog’s words, it’s premise and pretext...
The Blogs: Netanyahu has pushed a small genocide in Gaza. New elections must be called
The prime minister provokes domestic and international fury. I have written for years that Netanyahu and his illegitimate, violent and extremist coalition are more of a risk to Israel’s short-term security and long term stability than Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran and all the West’s anti-Israel protests combined. Sadly, my prediction seems to be coming to pass. Though I’ve resisted this identification previously, Netanyahu, has crossed the line into what I agree is now a war criminal status.
The Blogs: What's next after Iran, Mr. Netanyahu?
Devastation grows as Iran targets Israel’s civilian areas, despite interceptors and shelters Prime Minister Netanyahu…I can trust you have been safely living in your high tech bunker. The 8 year old and 10 year old, along with an increasing number of adults killed by Iranian missiles, apparently were not.
The Blogs: Trump's trying to deal with Hamas as he did with the Taliban in Afghanistan
Netanyahu confidant ‘lashed out’ at US envoy over direct talks with Hamas — official Trump released 5,000+ Islamist fighters from Kabul prisons and had the Taliban second in command freed from Pakistan. That didn’t work out well for Afghans – especially dooming its women and girls That Trump ‘credited his threat’ of ‘hell to pay’ with moving Hamas is nonsense. Trump’s little boy threat was no more relevant to Hamas terrorists then Netanyahu’s absurd threat of ‘total destruction.
The Blogs: Trump’s trying to deal with Hamas as he did with the Taliban in Afghanistan
12 hours ago All his adult life, Colonel Soren Knudsen stepped forward when his country called. And when its allies did. He fought alongside US troops, notably in Afghanistan, and for a time was Denmark's most senior officer there. He counted 58 rocket attacks during his duty. "I was awarded a Bronze Star Medal …
The Blogs: Investigation of 10/7 'not looking at political leadership' is illegitimate
37 armed Israelis failed to stop 3 terrorists from murdering 17 in Netiv Ha’asara ‘The army is not looking at policies set by the political leadership. That way, it avoids conflict with govt leaders who have insisted such investigations must wait until after the war against Hamas ends.” If this investigation is afraid to ‘look at policies (and responses) by the political leadership,’ it is only piecemeal and will never have authentic legitimacy.
The Blogs: 'Remarkable' would be Netanyahu's resignation and accountability for 10/7
PM calls Trump’s Gaza plan ‘remarkable’; Katz tells IDF to prep for voluntary emigration “This is the first good idea that I’ve heard,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “It’s a remarkable idea.” What’s ‘remarkable’ is that anybody thinks Trump’s pronouncement about turning Gaza into an international seaside resort – but without Palestinians – is remotely coherent, doable…or humane.
Jewish Supremacists Use a Proxy to Threaten Mutiny. Yair Commits Sedition
IDF opens criminal investigation into video of reservist threatening mutiny Yair Netanyahu should be immediately brought in without delay – no matter where he may be sheltering or otherwise hiding – and questioned for sedition.
Pro-Palestinian 'Peace' Presses for Increased Violence to Israel
No, 2024 is not remotely analogous to 1968. Screams for intifada, of extreme violence to Jews and Israel with the dissolution of the state of Israel are not remotely related to America’s political violence of 1968 and, frankly, I’m tired of this mindless, counterproductive analogy. The turmoil of 1968 was driven by the Cold War and the over emphasized ‘domino theory’ of communist domination combined with America’s own politics of war in southeast Asia with consideration to China.
Israel Risks Winning the Battle but Losing the War
That Qatar has become a primary ‘negotiator’ between Israel, the West and Hamas is, at the least, rather irritating. Qatar has long been a primary paymaster to Hamas providing them with large amounts of money and resources. Hamas’ political leadership, to include Ismail Haniyeh, continues to make pronouncements from afar while hiding in their condos supported by Qatar.
Israel Risks Winning the Battle but Losing the War - Lou Sandler
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No More False Equivalencies Between Hamas, 10/7 and Israel. Call out Hamas First - Lou Sandler
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No More False Equivalencies Between Hamas, 10/7 and Israel. Call out Hamas First
The current and unusually ruthless bombing campaign by Israel in Gaza is not ‘revenge’ and the more people especially on the pro-Hamas; anti-Palestinian Rights Left push that argument, the more clear it becomes how little understanding or true concern they bring. It is not ‘revenge’ by Israel but ultimate and truly existential self defense. How many people outside understand to what Israel is responding?
The illegitimacy of the pro-Hamas-and anti-Palestinian-Left is clear
In 2003, Ariel Sharon said he wanted to end the occupation. Sharon told the Likud in May of that year “it is not possible to continue holding 3-1/2 million people under occupation” and that “you may not like the word, but what’s happening is occupation. This is a terrible thing for Israel, for the Palestinians, and for the Israeli economy.” Sharon was right. What happened? Sharon unilaterally left Gaza in August, 2005, deciding that parts of the Occupied Territories were also a security liability.
Netanyahu Weakens Israel. Again. Why's he Still PM? (And Stop Killing Gazans)
The Hamas terrorist deluge; the long planed slaughter, assault and kidnapping which was focused not on the IDF, not on IDF outposts, not on militant and illegal setter outposts but on huge numbers of defenseless civilians and a music festival for peace was rooted less in broader failure by the IDF and Israeli intelligence and much more in the self serving narcissistic All-About-Bibi grotesque incompetence shown — again — by Benjamin Netanyahu.
A longstanding symbiosis between Netanyahu and Gaza's hard right just broke
A quick disclaimer is that I am offering my own political analysis since I have yet to be invited to do so through either broadcast or print media. My filter is decidedly pro-Israel but my goal is always honesty and with consideration to the actions of all those involved. I wrote yesterday, as I’ve been writing for years, that I have considered Netanyahu and his increasingly hard Right coalition governments to have a primary accountability.
Hamas Attack Across Southern Israel Started with the Abraham Accords
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Hamas and its dictator, Ismail Haniyeh, probably just ended their stay in Hamas.
Tel Aviv was the Victim and Rosh Yehudi the Victimizer
Judge rejects Orthodox group’s petition over canceled permits for its Sukkot events ‘In response to the judge’s decision on Friday, Rosh Yehudi accused the Tel Aviv municipality of canceling its events “because they chose the violent side and blamed the victim; the protesters who came to the square had a goal to destroy the prayers, and it doesn’t matter in what way.” The ‘victims’ included Tel Aviv and the many citizens, secular and non-orthodox, who came for the public Yom Kippur prayer.
'IDF stretched thin from uptick in settler violence'
‘Gallant adds that the IDF has been stretched thin due to an uptick in settler violence and Palestinian terror groups have exploited this weakness to carry out more attacks’ The current, extremist Israeli government led by criminal terrorists and Jewish Supremacists who will only exacerbate the ‘cycle of violence’ for their own benefit and deep biblical delusions.
Stop the Cycle of Attack and Revenge
Another horrific murder and I send out my thoughts to this family and the friends of the two Israelis murdered at a Huwara carwash. But to offer quick feedback to TOI and the accompanying article, there have been more than a ‘handful of instances of settler violence targeting the Palestinian residents of Huwara.’ And a number of these instances have been higher intensity but minimally if at all engaged by the IDF or Israeli police.
American Evangelicals' long covert attack on Israel in the open
Jun 8, 2021, 1:53 AM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post.
High Court Gives an Historic Hard-Earned Victory
Mar 1, 2021, 11:36 PM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post.
Conservatives Prepare 'Sacrifices' to COVID
Without living memory of an authentic pandemic, and in an atmosphere of increasingly bizarre hyper-partisan political extremism, those parroting Trump’s blind call to ‘open things by Easter’ have taken on a life of their own at, perhaps, a projected loss of life considered less valuable then being able to go out for a hamburger. That this has now even migrated to the TOI blogs and Jews leaves me even more depressed.
Without a Vision, Israel Risks a Future Imposed
Aug 28, 2019, 9:23 AM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post.
The Democratic Party Certainly is Not 'Anti-Israel'
Aug 18, 2019, 2:58 AM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post.
The 'Sympathies' of Bernie Sanders...
Apr 26, 2019, 8:35 AM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. I think it important to first make clear that I neither support nor would vote for Bernie Sanders.
Needed: A Vision for Israel Not Focused on Netanyahu
Apr 4, 2019, 10:25 PM Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Blue and White is not likely to win the elections next week.
Japan PM 'speechless,' says IS slaying video likely authentic
TOKYO — Japan’s prime minister said Sunday he was “speechless” after an online video purportedly showed that one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed, and he demanded the release of the other. Shinzo Abe told Japanese broadcaster NHK that the video was likely authentic, though he said the government is still reviewing it. Abe offered condolences to the family and friends of Haruna Yukawa, a 42-year-old adventurer taken hostage in Syria last year.
Germany to stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia -- report
BERLIN — Germany has decided to stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of “instability in the region,” German daily Bild reported Sunday. Weapons orders from Saudi Arabia have either been “rejected, pure and simple,” or deferred for further consideration, the newspaper said, adding that the information has not been officially confirmed.
Survivors, world leaders to mark Auschwitz liberation
WARSAW — Seventy years after it was liberated, 300 Auschwitz survivors — most now in their 90s — will on Tuesday return to the former Nazi death camp, the site of the largest single number of murders committed during World War II. Between 1940-45 some 1.1 million people, including one million Jews, perished in the twin death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau created by Nazi Germany in Oswiecim, southern Poland.
One of the world's largest ships named after SS officer
Jewish groups in the Netherlands and Britain have voiced indignation over the docking in Rotterdam of one of the world’s largest ships, the Pieter Schelte, which is named after a Dutchman who served in the Nazi Waffen SS, the Guardian reported Saturday.
Reporter covering Nisman's death flees Argentina
A journalist credited with being the first to report the gunshot death of federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman has left Argentina because of fear for his safety. Damian Pachter of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald left the country Saturday, the local journalism group Foro de Periodismo Argentino said. The group said Pachter reported on Friday he was followed by unknown people and felt his safety was at risk but did not elaborate.
US appeals court upholds dismissal of Holocaust suits
CHICAGO — Holocaust survivors and heirs of victims can’t sue Hungary’s national bank and railway in the US for the theft of cash, art and other assets from Hungarian Jews until they first exhaust their legal options in Hungary, a US appeals court ruled Friday. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upholds a lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuits filed in the Northern District of Illinois in 2010.
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