Lawfare against Netanyahu has gotten to the point of this indictment: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday, prolonging the country’s political uncertainty as … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating article by Caroline Glick comparing the tactics of the anti-Netanyahu crowd in Israel to that of the anti-Trump crowd in the US. An excerpt [emphasis mine]: …[T]here is nothing unique about Trump’s actions [re Ukraine]. As Mark … Continue reading →
I’m not too keen on parliamentary systems in general. Too many small parties are given power. The one good thing about parliamentary systems, IMHO, is that they are more responsive than ours and elections can be called if there’s no … Continue reading →
When the international version of the NY Times decided to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon by the Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes, it was just following a long-established European post-WWII tradition. Antunes has been in the anti-Semitic image business for decades, … Continue reading →