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Opinion Immigrant Fearmongering From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu
In this bewildering political season, the least fortunate people — and especially immigrants — have become targets of opportunity for right-wing politicians around the world. The immigrants are used as foils. They are used as scapegoats. They are used to distract from the failures of these politicians to provide for the needs and to answer…
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Opinion Why Benjamin Netanyahu’s Outrageous ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Claim Is Actually Clever Political Ploy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to raise the collective blood pressure of official Washington to dangerous levels on September 9, charging in an online video that evacuating Israeli West Bank settlers, as Palestinians demand, would amount to “ethnic cleansing.” What’s more, he said, “some otherwise enlightened countries even promote this outrage.” Obama administration officials…
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News Donald Trump Sides With Benjamin Netanyahu in West Bank ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Flap
Donald Trump’s adviser on U.S.-Israeli relations told Haaretz Sunday that the Obama administration “should be ashamed of their misguided reaction” to remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a Facebook video published over the weekend, Netanyahu said that support for the removal of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as part of a two-state peace…
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Opinion Israel’s Shabbat Wars Are Heating Up — No Thanks to the Politicians!
Cultural Zionist philosopher Ahad Ha’am famously wrote, “More than the Jews have kept the Shabbat, the Shabbat has kept the Jews.” But Ahad Ha’am didn’t live in Israel in the 21st century, where it is more relevant to paraphrase him by writing, “More than the politicians have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the politicians.” In…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Says Palestinian State Without Jews Is ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Facebook saying that calls for a Palestinian state without Jews amount to “ethnic cleansing.” “[T]he Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one pre-condition: No Jews,” Netanyahu says in the video, released Friday. “There’s a phrase for that: It’s called ethnic cleansing. And this demand is…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Thanks Dutch Christian Zionists for Support
— Benjamin Netanyahu cleared 20 minutes from the schedule of his visit to the Netherlands to thank the country’s leading Christian Zionist activist and chief rabbi for their support for the Jewish state and its people. The Israeli Prime Minister on Wednesday called Roger van Oordt, director of the Christians for Israel organization. He also…
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Fast Forward Former Dutch Premier Brands Benjamin Netanyahu ‘War Criminal’
Former Dutch prime minister and longtime pro-Palestinian activist Dries van Agt said Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal who should be prosecuted during his visit this week to the Netherlands. Van Agt, who in 2012 said Jews should have had a state in Germany instead of the Land of Israel and who in 2008 spoke…
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Israel News Benjamin Netanyahu’s Uncharacteristic ‘Vow of Silence’ on White House Race
— Benjamin Netanyahu is adhering to a strict policy of silence on the US elections to avoid a repeat of his 2012 troubles over perceived meddling, the New York Times reported. The Israeli prime minister offered no comment on the subject during a recent 3-hour meeting with US political figures, The Time reported Thursday in an…
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