Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he pulled a key provision from his controversial judicial overhaul plan—and said he would not insist on a clause that would give the Knesset the ability to override the country’s supreme court.
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UN: OK FOR ISRAEL TO KILL PALESTINIAN CHILDREN, BUT SHAMES RUSSIA FOR KILLING CHILDREN IN UKRAINE
Not every child is equal, according to the United Nations.
MIDDLE EAST MELTDOWN: ISRAEL KEEPS RAMPING UP WAR IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY
Israel further inflamed tensions with Palestinians last week when its troops destroyed the home of a Palestinian who is accused of killing an Israeli soldier in a drive-by shooting in 2022.
DOES ISRAEL SEEK A “FINAL SOLUTION FOR PALESTINIANS?”
There is what passes for a sick joke among those who watch the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians with increasing shock over what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his thugs have been allowed to get away with.
ISRAEL ON BRINK OF CIVIL WAR
Some 70,000 protesters held a rally outside Jerusalem’s Knesset on Monday to voice outrage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s effort to erase the country’s system of checks and balances by overhauling the judicial system.
NETANYAHU’S COALITION MAKES DEAL WITH CONVICTED RACIST TO STAMP DOWN PALESTINIANS
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party signed a coalition agreement with the country’s Jewish Power party that was widely seen as a death blow to any chance of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
TREND: BANK OF ISRAEL INCREASES KEY INTEREST RATE LESS THAN EXPECTED
Validating analysts’ our forecasts cited in “Future Rate Hikes Will Be Smaller” in this issue, on 21 November the Bank of Israel (BoI) increased its base interest rate by a half-point, not the three-quarters of a point that analysts had expected.
BOMBS AWAY OVER SYRIA: ISRAEL CONTINUES ITS WAR WITH SYRIA
Israel carried out an airstrike against Syrian forces early Saturday that resulted in the deaths of four Syrian troops and injuring one.
GANTZ: ISRAEL CAN STRIKE IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES, BUT WARNS OF FALLOUT
Benny Gantz, the outgoing Israeli defense minister, said in an interview last week that Tel Aviv has the military power to wipe out Tehran’s nuclear facilities, but should only carry out such an attack as a last resort.
ISRAEL: MORE BOMBS AWAY OVER SYRIA
Keeping its steady stream of launching air raids on Syria, Israel continued its bombing runs last week after carrying out an airstrike on a convoy which Israel said was delivering Iranian weapons.