News and commentary: progress in work
In preparing to write a blog post about the Israel-Hamas war, one of the points that was to be mentioned that it the U.S. is no longer Israel’s reliable ally and that it would be in Israel’s best interests to become self-sustaining as far as U.S. military aid.
When a celebrity occasionally says something that makes sense, it’s usually advisable for normal people to wait a minute, a week, or a month before heaping praise on that luminary to see what else her or she has to say.
Further updates about the atrocities committed against innocent Israelis in the barbaric terrorist attack on Saturday makes it almost unbearable to try to keep up with the unfolding, heart-wrenching developments about the mounting death toll.
Benjamin Netanyahu has won reelection as prime minister of Israel, putting him on course to be the country’s longest-serving chief executive in the Jewish state’s history. The Netanyahu right-wing coalition gives the incumbent leader a majority in Israel’s multi-party parliament, the Knesset, which is necessary to form a government. Under a parliamentary system, the “government” is essentially equivalent to our executive branch, with key member of parliament simultaneously serving in the leader’s cabinet. Although it won the same number of seats as Netanyahu’s Likud Party, the opposition “centrist” Blue and White coalition has formally conceded. Israel is the only functioning, multi-ethnic democracy in the Middle East.
Critics of Israel, including those activists in the Boycott, Disinvestment, and Sanctions movement, argue that the Jewish state practices apartheid. So-called Israel Apartheid Week is scheduled for April 8-11, overlapping with Israel’s April 9 national election and the run-up to the Passover celebration. Against that backdrop, it seems appropriate to point out that the small country is the only functioning, westernized democracy in the Middle East. Like the U.S., Israel has issues, not the least of which is its own Deep State seeking to undermine incumbent Prime Minister Netanyahu. Among other civil rights, it is also a country where people are free to practice any religion or no religion. A visitor walking down the street of any Israeli city will immediately realize that it is a diverse, multi-ethnic, multicultural country. These compelling images say it all about Israel apartheid.
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