Bibi goes MAGA: How Netanyahu is exploiting the Capitol Hill riot
The Israeli prime minister and his supporters in the media are spinning the riot in Washington to paint anti-Netanyahu protesters as a dangerous threat.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, one of the Capitol rioters, is seen outside Capitol Hill after it was stormed on January 6, Washington DC. (Blink O fanaye/CC BY-NC 2.0)
“If, God forbid, Bibi loses, who supports doing what Trump’s supporters are doing?” asked a Facebook user last Wednesday on the popular “Likud Voters” group online, home to more than 14,000 members who support the ruling party in Israel. The storming of Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. was still taking place and Israelis, like the rest of the world, were watching the events mouth agape.
Right livid with Gantz
January 8, 2021
(Israel Hayom via JNS) Prominent figures on Israel’s right are furious with Defense Minister Benny Gantz for telling London-based Saudi news outlet Asharq Al-Awsat in a recent interview that he does not envision full regional peace without the Palestinians, and that Jerusalem had enough room to include a future Palestinian capital.
When asked about the status of Jerusalem, Gantz was quoted as saying, “Jerusalem must remain united, but it will include a place for a Palestinian capital. It is a very big city and full of places sacred to us all.”
Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Rafi Peretz (Jewish Home Party) said in a Twitter post that “united Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, not the capital of anyone else. This is where our forefathers walked and this is where we were created. Gantz, I know you enough to know you believe that, too.”
Ben Gurion International Airport
By Ariel Kahana and Dean Shmuel Elmas
A senior adviser to the leader of a large Muslim-majority country has recently visited Israel despite the two countries having no diplomatic relations,Â
Israel Hayom has learned.
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Although under censorship restrictions,Â
Israel Hayom is not at liberty to name the Asian country, or the people involvedâdue to potential national-security and diplomatic sensitivitiesâwe can report that the adviser headed a delegation of senior officials for meetings in Tel Aviv some two weeks ago.
The talks between the two sides come on the heels of the normalization deals struck between Israel and several Arab states through the active mediation of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. The deals, known collectively as the Abraham Accords, have been announced over the course of the past several months, with the United Arab Emirates being the first, followed by Bahrain and S