Netanyahu’s Return to Power Will Further Complicate Israeli-US Relations

Netanyahu’s Return to Power Will Further Complicate Israeli-US Relations

Neither Bennett nor Lapid betrayed Israel’s national interests vis a vis Russia despite their ideological alignment with Biden and their country’s status as one of America’s top allies so it’s to be expected that ideologically misaligned Bibi will take this policy trajectory as far as possible. His close friendship with Putin is also of course…

Fascists in Government Won’t Dent Western support for Israel

Fascists in Government Won’t Dent Western support for Israel

Israel is not suddenly a more racist state. It is simply growing more confident about admitting its racism to the world 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…

MBS and MBZ Fight for Scraps After Trump and Netanyahu’s Exit

MBS and MBZ Fight for Scraps After Trump and Netanyahu’s Exit

Imagine what would have happened if Donald Trump had secured a second term and Benjamin Netanyahu enough votes in the Knesset to form a government. Iran would have been bombed by now – Netanyahu was pressing for an attack even when it was clear Trump had lost – Saudi would have normalised relations with Israel,…

The Israeli Farce

The Israeli Farce

The recently inaugurated Israeli government, the Coalition-for-Change, the wet dream of Israeli and American liberals, Biden-approved-and-blessed after fifteen years of Bibi Netanyahu’s tyranny and four rounds of elections in the last two years – barely surviving a vote of confidence in cliffhanger-fashion – 59:59. It came to power on a slim ‘majority’ of 59.5:60.5 in…