Tag: Annexation of West Bank

NOVANEWS By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Binyamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The culmination of his dirty tricks campaign was an election-day stunt in which his Likud Party broke regulations – and possibly the law – by arming 1,200 activists with hidden cameras, to film polling stations in communities belonging to Israel’s large Palestinian minority. Netanyahu justified the move by saying it would ensure the election was “kosher”. Yet again, Israel’s prime minister made it clear that the country’s 1.7 million Palestinian citizens were unwelcome interlopers in what he regards as an exclusively Jewish political process. The public r...

NOVANEWS Annexation of West Bank may provide key to unlocking Netanyahu’s legal troubles By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Binyamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The culmination of his dirty tricks campaign was an election-day stunt in which his Likud Party broke regulations – and possibly the law – by arming 1,200 activists with hidden cameras, to film polling stations in communities belonging to Israel’s large Palestinian minority. Netanyahu justified the move by saying it would ensure the election was “kosher”. Yet again, Israel’s prime minister made it clear that the country’s 1.7 million Palestinian citizens were unwelcome interlo...