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Image: Netanyahu’s efforts to sabotage the nuclear negotiations have angered President Obama. (Courtesy PRESS TV)
 
 

Cartoon Photo by Amos Biderman (Courtesy Haaretz.com)

The biggest losers are the Jews. The fact that the behavior of Netanyahu and his allies is repeatedly endorsed by a significant number of Jews inside and outside of Israel confirms that, except for the Holocaust, Zionism is the worst thing to happen to Jews and Judaism in the modern era. It has tied a people and a religion to a racist political ideology that is a variant on the criminal practice of apartheid. 

  To boost Israeli arms sales, Palestinian families have  suffered three onslaughts of  ‘systematic genocide’ wars in 6 years and are condemned  to a life that is unnatural, stressful, traumatic waiting for the next Israeli weapons testing that will again turn Gaza into ground zero*……

 

Image: Reuters / Siegfried Modola

Pandering and fear mongering together with hatred for Arabs and the left are the ingredients of Netanyahu’s secret potion, and it now appears that many voters were indeed seduced.

 

The End of the Liberal Zionist Façade

Yehonatan Geffen Photo Credit: Channel 2 news

“The people again chose a government that is based on intimidating people. They selected a racist that, on election day, told the media the Arabs are flocking to the polls like mice. What would you say if in Germany people said the Jews are flocking to the polls like mice?” Yonaton Geffen charged.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins re-election but fails to receive a congratulatory phone call from President Barack Obama.

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With all votes counted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party has won the Israel elections, gaining an estimated 30 seats. Its nearest rival, the centre-left Zionist Union will only have 24 seats in the new Parliament.

Due to the fact that the appointment of Malley coincided with the crisis in relations between the U.S. and Israel, caused by the recent speech made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the U.S. Congress behind Obama’s back and without his approval, analysts have begun to talk about “changes in the U.S. role in the Middle East”

 
 

Image: Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli Air Force pilot, now solidarity activist, speaks to seminarians in Oslo, Norway, September 23, 2014. (courtesy The Electronic Intifada)