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Amnesty now calls Israel an "apartheid state". That seems destructive, but it also shows that little has changed in the country's government policies. When Amnesty International's human rights activists announce their verdict, they are not doing justice, but they are shaping the debate worldwide. Now it is: Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinians. That's in the title of the new report that Amnesty released on Tuesday. It goes far beyond the usual criticism of Israel's occupation policy, it is tantamount to a request to see Israel in a new light: not as a democratic state that also maintains a problematic military regime, but as an essentially discriminatory order. Amnesty calls for a halt to arms deliveries to Israel and for trials against those responsible in Israel. This is a real turning point. Not because Amnesty's assessment is new. The great public uproar surrounding "apartheid" began last year when the Israeli ...

It would have been done without judicial permission and also tracked the mobiles of former employees of state corporations and two mayors. The Pegasus cyber espionage program is once again making headlines in the Israeli media. But this time not because of the claim that another country has used it to spy on activists or journalists instead of the declared purpose (fight against international terrorism and crime) for which it bought the sophisticated system from the Israeli company NSO.  The reason is that, as revealed by the Israeli newspaper 'Calcalist', the Police have used the software to penetrate the mobile phones of Israeli citizens and extract information from them without permission or judicial supervision. "The Police bought Pegasus in 2013 but it was in 2015 when he started using it from his cybernetic unit," explains the author of the journalistic investigation. His article has led civil associations and parties on both the right and the left to demand an ...

Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is ruling his country unusually calmly and efficiently. What does this mean for the country that has been plagued by the permanent political crisis? If you ask Israeli journalists about the biggest change Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has faced with his country, it is often said that politics has become boring since he took office six months ago.   Hardly anyone complains about that here, on the contrary. The fact that Israel, which is characterized by crises and wars, is suddenly being ruled with little noise under Bennett, makes many a sigh of relief. How different the political atmosphere has become in Israel can only be understood if one looks at the late term of office of his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu. A year agoand after just a few months, the center-right coalition between Netanyahu and his one-time challenger Benny Gantz broke up. Netanyahu and his Likud party prevented the state budget from being passed and provoke...

There was a time when Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were very close. But then Trump became the former president and now he is so angry that he insulted the current US President Joe Biden on behalf of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Former President Donald Trump was interviewing an Israeli journalist, Barack Reeve, on a book he wrote on the Middle East when he slammed Netanyahu for angrily congratulating Joe Biden on his election as the new US president. ۔ Joe Biden was the first person to greet Biden, whom I cared for more than anyone else. He could have kept quiet. He made a big mistake It should be noted that Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been the Prime Minister of Israel for 12 years, is also known as 'BB' whose government was overthrown in June this year. 'I haven't talked to Bibi since' When Israeli journalist Barack Reeve went to interview Trump for his book, Trump's Peace: The Abraham's Accords and Reshaping of the Middle East, he probabl...

The recently retired head of the Israeli spy agency Mossad has revealed in an interview his country's operations against Iran. UC Cohen details Iran's nuclear document theft In 2018, millions of documents were stolen from Iran and sent to Israel.  He also hinted at Israeli involvement in the destruction of an Iranian nuclear plant and the assassination of a nuclear scientist.  Cohen retired as Mossad chief last week. He spoke to journalist Ilana Diane in a documentary on Israel's Channel 12 that aired Thursday night.  Cohen was appointed head of Mossad by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in late 2015. He joined Mossad in 1982 after graduating from a London university. Speaking on the program, he said that he has had 'hundreds' of passports throughout his career. The most eye-catching moments in the interview were when he was talking about the theft of Iran's nuclear documents. Benjamin Netanyahu told about these files during a press conference in 2018. ...