[The Red Arrow]

Israeli lawmaker proclaims supremacy of ‘Jewish race’
Likud's MK Miki Zohar says Jews are the smartest in the world, so know Netanyahu isn't corrupt
By Stuart Winer 13 June 2018, 9:13 pm

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-l ... wish-race/

[bluebellnutter]

Wait...so the Jews are now the Master Race?

[Cyclist]

Richard Littlejohn is right for once!

You really couldn't make this shit up.

[Philip Marlow]

A long, worthwhile, and miserably disheartening piece by David Shulman in the latest NYRB.

The Last of the Tzaddiks
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06 ... -tzaddiks/

...the government, driven by its extremist coalition partner the Jewish Home, is furthering a bill aimed at bypassing the High Court altogether by allowing a simple majority of sixty-one members of the Knesset to override the court’s rulings, particularly in cases involving basic human rights. This move is the most far-reaching attack ever made on the fundamental structure of Israeli democracy. If the bill passes, it will enshrine a tyranny of the majority and undermine the very concept of inalienable rights. We have come a long way from the days of Lauterpacht and Robinson.

Read it all, as they say.

[Boiler]

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel PM charged with corruption

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50508399

[The Red Arrow]

[youngian]

Netanyahu used the Holocaust memorial to rant at Iran and toady to Trump who couldn’t be bothered to attend. No class or statesmanship

[The Red Arrow]

Brilliant! Well done everybody.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[cycloon]

'This is a great deal, I'm a great dealmaker, look, here's Mr Netandyahoo, great deal eh?'

It's Corbyn-esque in how it's 'dialogue' with only one party at the table.

Then Kushner kicks them when they're down, as ever. 'Why are you so shit at being shit, you shits?'

Transparent as all hell, but hey who cares, it's only brown people, they're crazy and sound weird, rather than having Legitimate Concerns about, uh, their right to life.

[Samanfur]

Johnson's doing his best at PMQs to hype the deal as an excellent two-state solution.

[lord_kobel]

Another twitter thread breaking the details of the plan down:

[Safe_Timber_Man]

Even without looking at it, when Israel say they deal is great and Palestinians reject it that suggests it isn't a "win/win deal for both parties".

[Watchman]

I think in this case, we're supposed to take "both parties" as Israel and US

[cycloon]

The thing that, admittedly based on my superficial grasp, really gets me is how utterly abusive the attitude to the Palestinians is in a discursive sense. Obviously this is secondary to the actual reality of occupation and repression, but the way it's dressed up as 'this is gold, we're so nice, you'd be crazy not to take it' is so egregiously disgusting... It's like an abusive partner. 'You make me do this', 'this is your fault', etc.