As the Obama administration shunned Israel last week, we warned that police were calling on Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to allow them to open a full criminal investigation against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Today, as Channel 2 reports, Israeli police entered Bibi's home for questioning. The prime minister was quick to react, blasting "don't celebrate too soon over corruption probe."
Over the past 68 years, Israel has done nothing but deliberately subjugate Palestinians to humiliation, suffering, death and destruction, all in front of a gobsmacked world. Israel has not just committed unspeakable acts of genocide against the Palestinian people but done so with absolute transparency. 4thMedia reports: Last week, the world stood fixated at a largely symbolic gesture by the United Nations in which it found the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank of Palestine to be illegal. Or did it?
Israel’s security cabinet said on Sunday that remains of the members of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, killed during anti-Israel operations, would not be returned to their families for burial. The announcement was made via a statement posted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official Twitter account. The statement said the bodies would be interred in a cemetery established for this purpose, but did not elaborate on the burial plan.
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Donald Trump has a new best friend.
“President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he berated John Kerry in a fashion that would once have resulted in a rupture of diplomatic relations.
Iran has said that Israel will pay dearly for continuing with the construction of settlements on Palestinian land. Ongoing Israeli settlement construction will spark a war that will lead to the Jewish state’s “complete destruction,” an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman said on Thursday.