Palestinian/ Israeli update 5/20/2016..Fascist rule under Netanyahu about to get worse
Israel defence minister quits accusing govt of extremism
Israeli Occupation Forces Continue Raid and Arrest Campaigns
Palestine slams Israel PM’s decision to ass Liberman to cabinet
Israeli Defense Minister Resigns from Politics, Blasts Netanyahu
by Stephen Lendman
Fascist rule under Netanyahu exceeds Sharonian evil. It’s about to get worse with ultranationalist extremist Avigdor Lieberman replacing Moshe Ya’alon as defense secretary.
On Friday, he resigned from politics in protest, on Facebook and Twitter, saying:
“I informed the prime minister this morning that following his recent actions and developments, and in light of the lack of his confidence in me, I am resigning from the government and the Knesset and taking a break from political life.”
He’s not leaving public life, he explained. He intends returning “to compete for the national leadership of Israel.”
“…I recently found myself in strong disagreement on moral and professional issues with the prime minister, a number of (other) ministers and several MKs.”
An unnamed Likudnik called the rupture between both men “real and serious, not political spin.” Ya’alon expressed concern over “extremist and dangerous elements (taking) over Israel and the Likud Party…”
He failed to explain it took over long ago, preceding Netanyahu, exacerbated on his watch, now maybe heading over the abyss with Arab-hating lunatic Lieberman in charge of war-making.
He endangers the region and world peace. He believes soldiers killing Palestinians in cold blood deserve praise, not prosecution.
As former foreign minister, he was just an embarrassment. In charge of defense, he could invade Syria, nuke Iran and start WW III.
Ya’alon’s resignation sets the stage for his formal acceptance. Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog said his appointment risks a perilous “journey of war and funerals,” sending a “message to the world that Israel prefers extremism, occupation and settlements to a peace accord.”
A Thursday Channel 10 poll showed Israelis prefer Ya’alon over Lieberman by 51 – 27%. Others had no view either way.
A Channel 2 poll was much narrower, favoring Ya’alon by 38% over Lieberman’s 35%. Most Israelis believe Netanyahu forced Ya’alon’s resignation to make way for Lieberman.
The entire region has cause for concern. Palestinians hold their breath, awaiting his hammer sure to drop. Gazans fear another likely devastating war.
America keeps rewarding Israeli ruthlessness. On Wednesday, House members authorized over $600 million for its deeply flawed, inaccurate missile defense programs – on top of hundreds of millions previously OK’d.
Rubber-stamp Senate approval is automatic, including annual billions of US taxpayer dollars for Israel’s killing machine.
New legislation includes anti-Iranian provisions, part of longstanding US/Israeli hostility toward the Islamic Republic.
An eventual showdown is likely, perhaps embroiling the entire region in conflict.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Thou Shalt Not Incite: Palestinian Women Tossed in Slammer for Facebook Posts
…..It all serves to underscore the fact that Israel is an apartheid state. There is one set of law for Jews. And a separate set of laws for Palestinians. This is the essence of apartheid. And this is the essence of Israel.
Moreover, what pops its head up each morning when the sun rises over Occupied Palestine and its various incarnations of Shlomo Ben Yosef streets is an apartheid state which at the same time very much likes to pretend to be a democracy, at least on talk shows in the United States…and in this we have the essence of hypocrisy as well.
In Israel, the words “Thou shalt not incite,” in reality mean, “Thou shalt not incite against Jews.”
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/05/palestinian-israeli-update_20.html
