Khouri: Strong Israel-Arab bloc result does not mean Israel has changed
‘Zionism and the state of Israel is a racist enterprise’ Rami Khouri, a public policy fellow with the American University of Beirut challenges the idea that a strong IsraelI-Arab bloc result signals any positive shift in Israeli society, arguing that it will never change.
Eisenkot's bloc and Arab-led parties seek to oust Netanyahu, but failure to form government could leave him in power.
Staunch US support of Israel has been raised as one of the reasons why Republicans performed so badly.
Some 97% of respondents to Arab Opinion Index for Syria say Israel threatens security and stability in the Middle East.
Democrats’ sweep could urge Israel’s divided opposition to join forces and remove prime minister closely allied with Trump The Democrats’ sweep of Congress may make it easier for Israel’s splintered opposition to overcome deep internal divisions and form a coalition government, by increasing the urgency of unseating Benjamin Netanyahu, who has associated himself so closely with Donald Trump’s Republicans. But as Israel took stock of the results, there was also a sense that the elections marked a longer-term shift in US politics that will make the job of any new Israeli leader far more difficul
Netanyahu’s allies refused to back the result, as President Herzog began talks on who should form the next government
But the media often made it seem real Among the things that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory last night in the Michigan Senate race revealed is this: the debate over US policy toward Israel does not primarily pit the left versus the right. Peter Beinart is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, editor at large at Jewish Currents, a professor at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the author of The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter.