Israel needs to evolve or sink deeper, and deeper into the abyss. The orthodox minority have a tremendously unequal amount of power, control, and say about how the society will flourish for all.
Israeli citizens need Netanyahu to be removed and replaced by a more moderate leader and administration.
In 2019, Israel looks and acts more like a country like Saudi Arabia vice a country like Canada (America blew it by placing trump in office).
Stop foreign aid to Israel if they continue along the Saudi path with the Orthodox kvetsh leaders and farbrekher Netanyahu.
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It seems to me a big mistake to compare Netanyahu to Trump. Trump is a shady businessman/ reality tv star who surprisingly won one election, despite being grossly unqualified for the presidency. Netanyahu is on the way to becoming Israel's longest serving Prime Minister. The far left hates him but the majority of Israelis think he has done a decent job over the years and being qualified for the position was never a question. He is the favorite to win again unless corruption charges stick in which case he won't survive, and another right center coalition seems most likely to emerge. Things could change but at present it seems to me that Trump is lucky if he is not impeached much less win gain in 2020.
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Sound familiar? All the Good Old Boys in the International Mafia are calling it a witch hunt.
They aren't far form wrong - they are all witches. Perhaps "burning at the stake" is the best and fastest way to get rid of them?
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My attorney wife says that if the facts are against you, argue the law; if the law is against you, argue the facts; and if both the facts and the law are against you, pound on the table. Trump and Netanyahu must have taken that class, too.
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Sounds familiar. When you're caught with your hands in the cookie jar, the only defense seems to be "witch hunt." Next Trump and Netanyahu will be sharing lawyers.
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@Christy
Yes, plus we have reason to believe that Giuliani will be able to devote more time to the Netanyahu cause in a couple of months.
We can't tar everybody with the same brush but some politicians do seem to act the same way if they are alleged to have committed high crimes. We hear words like absurd, biased and witch hunt or they blame their spouses. The faithful base hews to their elected hero as they did with Richard Nixon right up to Nixon's resignation because they cannot admit they made a mistake in electing a person with feet of clay.
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I don't know enough about Netanyahu's legal trouble to mouth off in that regard but I do know that if I was an Israeli, in negotiations with adversaries, I'd want a hard-nosed character like Netanyahu on my side, not some wimp who would cave and give the store away
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@MIKEinNYC Like Tony Soprano???
Absolute power corrupts. I just hope Netanyahu's indictment doesn't steal the news cycle from Mueller's report on Russian and Israeli intrusion to elect Trump.
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Bibi is borrowing a few chapters from Trump's playbook - specifically the ones about playing the victim card to distract from his misdeeds.
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We, israeli-Americans who still believe in peace and dialogue with Palestinians are certainly elated. The only problem is there is no one in the level of Rabin on the center-left that’s capable of winning back the government, and the right wingers have been on fire for years.
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Mmmmm... He 'called himself and his family victims of a “terrible witch hunt” orchestrated by the political left; and claimed that those leftist adversaries wanted him to sacrifice Israel’s security, but that he would “never do such a thing.”'
Sounds dreadfully familiar... Now, where have I heard this before?
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