Israeli opposition lawmakers praised Knesset member Gideon Saar on Thursday for breaking ranks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a bill that would grant him immunity from prosecution while in office. Although Saar is from Netanyahu’s Likud Party, the two men have frequently clashed. Netanyahu has been working to advance a bill that would allow him to avoid prosecution in three pending corruption cases.
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by Angelo M. Codevilla via Strategika
Pitilessly, the past quarter century’s events have dismissed the hopes for peace with the Arabs that Israeli diplomats, often accompanied by U.S. counterparts, detailed to the world in 1993 as they explained the concessions they had finalized in Oslo. Previously, they had treated Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization as a terrorist organization to be marginalized if not destroyed. The list of its outrages, from bombing school buses and airports to murdering Olympic athletes, spoke for itself. In 1982, the U.S. saved the PLO from imminent destruction by an Israeli and Lebanese alliance, and sustained it in supervised exile in Tunisia.
● https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A-third-election-in-2019-It-can-certainly-happen-analysis-591125
● https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-wont-say-hell-back-netanyahu-for-pm-after-elections-rules-out-gantz/
● https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-netanyahu-just-suffered-one-of-the-biggest-losses-of-his-political-career-1.7305540
● https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/prospect-of-new-israeli-vote-looms-as-netanyahu-struggles-with-coalition/2019/05/29/9155b71a-8171-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?utm_term=.f3602a7f8332