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Opinion Embracing Anti-Semitic Hungarian Leader, Netanyahu Betrays Zionism
In October 1999, the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) won over 27% of the national vote in parliamentary elections and shortly thereafter entered a governing coalition for the first time. I lived at the time as a visibly Hasidic Jew in Vienna and recall the xenophobic campaign that featured billboards with texts such as, “We…
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Fast Forward Why Netanyahu Is Blaming The New Israel Fund For Israel’s Migrant Crisis
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s been a busy, confounding week for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the question of the African migrants. On Monday afternoon, after months of threats to deport the lot of them, Netanyahu said he reached an agreement with the United Nations that would have resettled half of the 38,000 African…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Officially Kills African Immigrant Deal That He Just Signed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially cancelled an agreement made with the United Nations that would have relocated thousands of African asylum seekers to Western countries. The cancellation on Tuesday afternoon came a day after the agreement was first announced and hours after the prime minister said he would freeze the agreement in order…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Backtracks On African Immigrant Plan Amid Right-Wing Fury
Updated 6:45 p.m. Only hours after the Israeli government reached an agreement with the United Nations over its plan to deport thousands of African asylum-seekers while allowing thousands more to stay, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Facebook that the plan was being suspended. Netanyahu wrote that he would be meeting on Tuesday morning with…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Flip-Flop On Protecting Refugees Is Spineless And Shameful
Just when the Israeli government was about to do the right thing, its prime minister today turned into a spineless and inept politician, more interested in appeasing an extreme section of his domestic base than in leading with moral clarity and consistency. That’s the only way I can view the seesawing behavior of Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls Son Of Murdered French Holocaust Survivor
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the son of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor from Paris who was burned and found dead with 11 stab wounds in what is being called an anti-Semitic attack. Netanyahu on Sunday spoke with Daniel Knoll, the son of Mireille Knoll, who was found dead in her arsoned…
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The Schmooze Wall Street Journal Correction: Moses Got Water From ‘The Rock’ Not ‘Iraq’
Filed under: hilarious misunderstandings in the Western Media about Jews, the Torah, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Wall Street Journal has issued the following correction: An absolutely beautiful @WSJ correction today. Happy Passover! pic.twitter.com/U8W2sO6Dus — Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) March 28, 2018 Though it is amusing to think of a grieving Moses striking the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Hospitalized, Leaves After Tests
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left hospital late Tuesday following tests after suffering a high fever and a cough. A Reuters witness saw Netanyahu’s convoy leaving the hospital, and shortly after midnight Netanyahu said on Twitter: “I am on my way home. Sure some rest and hot soup will put things right.”…
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