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Understanding Israel’s Huge Protests Against Netanyahu’s Democracy-Ending Ploys

February 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Opposition deputies protest as the first stage of controversial judicial reform is approved by the Knesset Law Committee on Feb. 13, 2023.

Demonstrations in Israel since January have drawn hundreds of thousands of protesters denouncing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s proposal to emasculate the Supreme Court and threaten the essence of the country’s government.

The Bigger Picture In Israel-Palestine

May 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The story I heard at my synagogue growing up is that Israel is the Jews’ historic homeland, writes Jill Richardson. We never discussed Palestinians’ rights in Sunday school. Instead, our lessons gave the general impressions that Palestinians were all terrorists who did not deserve rights.

Total Cost of Governor’s Israel Trip: Taxpayers, $131,000. Political Donors: $311,500

July 15, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis on July 9 marked the inaugural of two non-stop flights a week to Tel Aviv as one outcome of his trip to Israel in June. But the flights will largely benefit El Al, the Israeli carrier. Numerous other carriers, including Delta, American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Air Canada, Lufthansa, and others have long provided service from Orlando to Tel Aviv.

While in Jerusalem, members of the delegations stayed at David Citadel, a five-star luxury hotel selected by Enterprise Florida which cost $425 per night.

Costs Pile Up For Governor and Cabinet’s $400-a-Night Israel Junket, as Do Questions

July 5, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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When Florida Cabinet members jetted off to Israel in late May, some state employees who traveled at taxpayer expense stayed in a more than $400-a-night luxury hotel in Jerusalem, where a Cabinet meeting was held.

Israel’s Mass Shootings

May 20, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

A scene at the Gaza fence east of Gaza City in late April. (Muhammad Sabah, B'Tselem)

You can always depend on Israel periodically to mass-murder bunches of Arabs in proportions as lopsided and unforgiving as our own mass shootings in the U.S., then scapegoat the bloodletting.

Scott’s Arab-Baiting Over Jerusalem

December 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Continuing to prepare for his Senate run, Gov. Rick Scott’s Jerusalem ploy is demeaning Palestinians in the occupied lands to appeal to Jews in South Florida. He learned the trick at Trump’s knee.

Scott Announces Trip to Israel With Inflaming Call To Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

November 29, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Governors usually leave foreign policy to Washington. But Gov. Scott, who is considering a run for Senate, may be making a pitch for Florida's Jewish vote by tapping into the constroversial debate about moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in Israel, a move that could possibly lead to a violent reaction from Palestinians. (© FlaglerLive)

The issue is particularly inflaming to Palestinians, who would see a move of the embassy as a provocation and a signal that the United States would then no longer be pursuing a two-state solution.

50 Years Later, Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty Still Provokes Unsettling Conclusions

June 11, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The USS Liberty after the attack. (US Navy)

On June 8, 1967, during the Arab-Israeli war, Israeli jets and gunships attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Americans. Israel called it an accident. Survivors doubt it to this day.

Israel’s Suicide Mission

January 7, 2017 | Pierre Tristam | 20 Comments

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Israel’s right-wing government never seriously considered the two-state solution, which it has now abandoned as it imposes a de-facto annexation of the Palestinian West Bank, enshrining apartheid.

A Third Palestinian Intifada Is Inevitable. Intransigence and Extremism Make It So.

October 22, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Israel’s occupation policy has undermined the state’s political and ethical foundations, while turning Prime Minister Netanyahu into a hostage of forces even more extreme than he is.

Iran Nukes Deal Will Protect Against Saudi and Israeli Threats

August 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Iran hasn’t launched a single war in 50 years. Israel has launched eight, Saudi Arabia has kept funding America’s worst enemies–ISIS, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Who are the real threats to Mideast peace?

The Iranian Nukes Deal and the
Horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse

July 21, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Netanyahu is an ideologue of Jewish catastrophe. By this logic, risks and challenges cannot be approached with a view toward resolution, yielding instead to paranoia and antagonism, writes Shlomo Ben-Ami.

Israel’s Problem Isn’t Iran or Hamas.
It’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

March 20, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

The manner of Netanyahu’s reelection–his lies, his bigotry, his fear-mongering–lays bare the method of a man who should not be trusted, and who is taking Israel down its most dangerous paths yet.

U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel, 1949-2014

July 27, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel, 1949-2014: military and economic aid broken down by year, from the Congressional Research Service reports.

Israel’s March of Folly

July 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

The home of the Kware' family, after it was bombed by the military, while family members and neighbors were present inside the house and in its vicinity (© Muhammad Sabah/B'Tselem).

Israel’s latest attack on Gaza reflects yet again that peculiar blend of arrogance and bigotry that has characterized Israeli policy toward Arabs since 1982: the arrogance that Israel is infallible, and the bigotry that sees Arabs either as inferior creatures to be walled off or as terrorists to be killed. It shouldn’t be surprised when the beasts rebel.

How U.S. Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Defense of Alleged Revenge Killers of Palestinian Teen

July 12, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The tax-exempt donations do not appear to run afoul of U.S. law. But they do put U.S. taxpayers in the position of subsidizing aid to Israelis convicted of politically motivated violence.

Gov. Scott’s Secret Travels, Boy Scout Bigotry Loses Disney, Here Come Hillary and Jeb: The Live Wire

March 3, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Gov. Scott travels secretly on his private jet, claiming a dubious security exemption, the Boy Scouts deservedly lose Disney grants for insisting on remaining homophobes, a town in Nebraska enshrines anti-immigrant racism in its ordinances, Israel invites tourist target-practice against Palestinians, and a farewell to Paco de Lucia.

Israel’s Apartheid Bus Lines

March 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Israel’s transportation ministry gave in to Israeli colonists’ demands that they not have to ride buses with Palestinians, and started two segregated bus lines for Palestinians only.

Mazel Not: Israel and the United States, Married on the Wrong Side of History

December 2, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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Israel likes to claim that Palestinians deny Israel’s right to exist. the reality is the opposite. Israel has spent the last six decades denying Palestinians’ right to exist in fact, going as far as denying them their history and identity. The UN vote for Palestinian statehood begins to right the injustice.

Siegel Resigns Over Comments on Christians’ Israel Support

September 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Mark Alan Siegel has resigned as chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party after saying conservative Christians were allies of Israel only because they wanted to bring on the Second Coming.

Palestinian Statehood: Deserved, Overdue, Inevitable

September 18, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | 34 Comments

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The Obama administration’s attempts to block Palestinian statehood at the United Nations scorn American ideals and pander to Israel’s insistence on denying Palestinians’ right to exist. The outcome will be ruinous.

My Ten Predictions for 2010

December 29, 2009 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

“All prophesies are wrong, therefore this one will be wrong,” Orwell said. So here are mine for the coming year of our blogs, 2010.

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