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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLS IN ISRAEL TO GET RID OF NUKES… FAT CHANCE!
American and Israeli hypocrisy center stage. Go back to mid-July when President Joe Biden told Yair Lapid—the former soap opera star and ad pitchman playing the role as Israeli Prime Minister—that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.
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ISRAEL KILLS 4 PALESTINIAN TEENS
Israeli forces continue to carry out raids in the occupied West Bank with deadly consequences, including one this weekend that resulted in the deaths of four Palestinian teenagers.
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4 KILLED, DOZENS WOUNDED IN ISRAELI WEST BANK RAID
A major clash broke out in the occupied West Bank last week that resulted in at least four deaths and 44 wounded at the Jenin Refugee Camp after Israel forces said they faced resistance.
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EU’S BORRELL ADMITS KILLING PALESTINIANS DON’T COUNT
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell admitted that the bombing of Palestinians by Israel will not be condemned by the European Union as they do with Russia’s bombing of Ukraine because there are “double standards” when it comes to foreign policy. And with Gaza, with Washington’s full...