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The Schmooze Why Jon Stewart Is Really Mad at ‘Racist’ Bibi
Jon Stewart is kind of mad at Bibi. Not so much for winning this week’s Israeli election, but rather for how he won. “How dare you gin up racist fears of minority turnout for short-term political gain? Stewart said, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu’s fear-mongering campaign, warning that Israeli-Arabs were out voting in droves.” “That’s our…
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Israel News Is Birthright NEXT Shutting Down?
Birthright Israel’s alumni division faces an uncertain future following the departure of its top two executives and the discontinuation of its flagship Sabbath meals program. Birthright Israel NEXT has entered a six-month “interim stage” as a task force weighs whether it will continue, Birthright Israel Foundation’s chief operating officer, Jennifer Goldstone, acknowledged in an interview…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Poised for 67-Seat Coalition
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to lead a heavily right-leaning coalition government with control of 67 of parliament’s 120 seats, according to final election results released on Thursday. Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party won 30 seats, compared with 24 for his main rival, the center-left Zionist Union. It was a huge gain from the…
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Fast Forward U.S. May Back ‘Palestine’ Statehood Push
The Obama administration may reconsider shielding Israel from critical actions in international forums, according to reports. Politico and the New York Times on Thursday each quoted unnamed senior administration officials as saying that the United States may back a U.N. Security Council resolution that would set the parameters for a two-state solution according to the…
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Opinion We Might Have Lost — But We Were Right About Bibi
Obviously, the Israeli election was a disaster for Jews everywhere who favor making peace with the Palestinians. But as much as we lost, and lost badly, we should also learn to say three words. We were right. We were right when we said that Har Homa, the East Jerusalem neighborhood, was built there to block…
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Opinion What Benjamin Netanyahu Sacrificed for Election Victory
In the end it wasn’t even close. Pre-election polls had Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud trailing the Zionist Union of Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni by four Knesset seats, nearly 4% of the popular vote. Analysts around the world were falling over each other to write Bibi’s political obituary. Then came election day. Exit polls found he’d…
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Fast Forward Will Benjamin Netanyahu Reelection Further Damage Ties to U.S.?
The Obama administration’s first response to news that Benjamin Netanyahu had been reelected as prime minister of Israel appeared to be avoidance. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday that the president would wait until Netanyahu had been formally charged with forming a government before congratulating him, although several European leaders and U.S….
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Opinion Why I Don’t Regret Sitting Out Israel’s Election
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman “Will you be writing a regret post about the election?” A few months ago, I wrote about how I was debating whether or not to go home to Israel for the elections. Well, spoiler alert: I didn’t. Like many Israeli friends with families and jobs and New York rents to pay,…
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