Today bring more bad news for the Netanyhu effort to extinguish Hamas…
Several European governments annouce support of a Palestinian statehood, something the American President wants , even if he’s STILL ok with sending Israel weapons….
The Biden admin is now openly saying the Israeli goal to get rid of Hamas is NOT GONNA WORK….
Efforts to get aid to those in Gaza in unorginaized and suffering from disarray….
Israel’s reaction to its loss of ground is to threaten even MORE action against the Palestinians….
Netanyahu and FDR and Churchill?
Here’s what we know:
The European nations joined scores of others that recognize Palestinian statehood, which Israel has long opposed.
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Recognitions of Palestinian statehood are a rebuke to Israel, if a largely symbolic one.
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Israel’s finance minister says he will withhold tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority.
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Norway’s recognition carries significance because of its role in 1993 talks.
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In recognizing a Palestinian state, Ireland nods to its own history.
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Food delivered through the U.S.-built pier in Gaza has not been distributed, Pentagon spokesman says….
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared himself to Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Tuesday as he assailed the International Criminal Court for requesting an arrest warrant against him and his government’s top defense official for alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
In an interview on CNN, the Israeli leader slammed yesterday’s announcement from the Hague as “outrageous” and described the international tribunal’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan as a “rogue prosecutor that has put false charges and created false symmetries that are both dangerous and false.”…