US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, visited Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, in Jeddah to discuss a number of important issues concerning both nations, however, the issue of Israeli-Saudi normalization has taken center stage. As Israel and Saudi Arabia have both had bumpy relations with the US Biden administration, such a deal makes little Read More...
“These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel – in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan, Judea and Samaria.” […]
The incoming Israeli government is not only the most extreme in history, posing a significant threat to Palestinians, but also represents a noticeable shift in the Zionist project’s trajectory and has isolated the self-described Jewish state from traditionally pro-Israeli Jewish communities around the world. Around two months after Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right bloc won the fifth Read More...
Prefatory Note: This post is a slightly modified version of my Nov 6, 2022 responses to questions posted by an Iranian journalism, Javad Heirian-Nia] WHAT TO EXPECT FROM NETANYAHU & RELIGIOUS ZIONISM: A Preliminary Appraisal The anti-Netanyahu political parties in Israel were united around a platform that contained few substantive changes from the policies expected to […]
The most disturbing outcome of Israel’s general election this week was not the fact that an openly fascist party won the third-biggest tally of seats, or that it is about to become the lynchpin of the next government. It is how little will change, in Israel or abroad, as a result. Having Religious Zionism at […]
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Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is now poised to form the next Israeli government, after defeating his main opponents Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv’s fifth election in only three years. However, the longest serving Israeli Prime Minister has come out at the expense of putting himself at the mercy of fanatical ultra-nationalists that may Read More...
