💥🧵#Breaking: Nahum Barnea, Israel's most important political columnist, with a bombshell: "In two discussions that took place on Wednesday, one in the afternoon, in a limited forum, Netanyahu eliminated any chance for progress in the ceasefire negotiations. It's over, at least for now. >> ynet.co.il/news/article/y…
Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, IDF head of strategy, was supposed to go to Cairo with top Shin Bet officials, for talks with the Egyptians. Territories coordinator Maj. Gen. Rasan Aliyan was also supposed to go. These are empty voyages, a source deeply involved in the negotiations>>
🧵3/ told me. As was today's Blinken-Netanyahu meeting. The summit planned for the end of the week, with the Israeli team & representatives of the mediators, may be canceled, postponed or held just for show… Someone on the US side believed in magic: >> ynet.co.il/news/article/y…
🧵4/As if saying a deal is in if they say a deal is coming, it will really materialize. There is no avoiding the truth: Sinwar and Netanyahu are not interested in paying the price involved in a deal & for now they can afford it. It could have been anything but the detail that>>
🧵5/that blew everything up was Netanyahu insistence on an Israeli military presence along the entire length of the entire Philadelphi axis; Hamas insists on an Israeli withdrawal. Netanyahu justifies his veto as adherence to a strategic position: Israel must surround Gaza>>
🧵6/ all round, 360 degrees. We can control the sea and the border with Israel, but a withdrawal from Philadelphi will open up a Gazan smuggling route from Egypt. The IDF & MOD disagree. First, the tests conducted since the IDF took control of the axis>> ynet.co.il/news/article/y…
🧵7/ [along the Egypt-Gaza border] proved that most smuggling went through the border crossings. Hamas paid and the Egyptians turned a blind eye. The tunnels, which were a booming industry when Israel controlled the Gaza Strip, have been abandoned. Most were sealed on Egypt's >>
🧵8/ side. Further, the 6 weeks during which the gradual release of hostages will occur won't change much on Philadelphi. First the hostages will be freed, then we'll see. But Netanyahu insists: the deal will become permanent. If there's no guaranteed IDF presence along the entire axis, there's no deal." ynet.co.il/news/article/y…
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💥🧵A long thread for a short story about the utter shambles of Israel after 17 years of Netanyahu rule, and the complete helplessness felt by citizens who no longer even expect to get basic services from the authorities. Specifically, about @IsraelPolice & @IsraelCourts, two
very important institutions Netanyahu attempted to ruin so as to take them over, in whose absence a bully can do any damn thing he wants. First, background: From the moment, maybe 7 years ago, that Netanyahu discovered he was the subject of a criminal investigation, he enjoined
every lever of power he had to destroy the police. He refused to appoint a commissioner. He refused to pass a budget. He impugned the cops. You name it. Eventually, he put a convicted hate-criming terrorist atop the police.
We all know what Netanyahu thinks of the judiciary,
💥 Reports indicating IDF Chief of Staff Lt Gen Herzl Halevi, Mossad director David Barnea & Shin Bet head Ronen Bar are considering a joint public statement detailing the devastation caused to Israeli national security by Netanyahu's power grab are🔥🔥🔥mako.co.il/news-military/…
Netanyahu's cabinet has not been convened to address the crisis, his ministers are choosing not to be informed of the reality, the public is therefor unaware of the magnitude of the crisis. In conversations among security chiefs responsibility for the disaster is placed on PM.
💥Israeli protest calls for a State Commission of Inquiry into the deliberate destruction of the army by the Israeli government. "Israeli security chiefs are warning of a grave failure the government is concealing from the public. Instead of shelving the dictatorial legislation…
🪧🗣️It is cumbersome & loud to be an Israeli minister these days… I'm opening a 🧵thread on what its like to belong to a government opposed by a majority of your people, who are 🦁roaring back…
Agriculture Minister @AviDichter, Godfather of the Nation-State Law, awoke to this crowd
This is the scene outside the home of Knesset Foreign Affairs & Security @YuliEdelstein, a man who spent years in the gulag for freedom and, in March 2020, defied the Supreme Court to help Benjamin Netanyahu shutter the Knesset.
#Breaking: Zelensky releases Hebrew-langue statement; God bless you, the united nation! It is no coincidence that I chose to say "united." The 7th day of this terrible war has begun. A war in which we all feel as one. We were shelled last night in Kyiv, and we all died again…
in Babyn Yar from a missile attack, despite the world's promise "Never again!" For a regular person who knows history, Babyn Yar is a special place in Kyiv. A special place in Europe. A site of prayers. A memorial for 1000s & hundreds of 1000s of Ashkenazis murdered by Nazis…
It is the site of Kyiv's ancient cemeteries. Why turn this place into a target for a missile attack? You are killing the Holocaust's victims once again. In Soviet times, a television tower & a sport center were built here from the ground up. A park was built so as to erase the…
Short thread on Netanyahu's 2015 racist attack, which will never go away—> Yesterday, he whined "They distorted my words. My intention wasn't to protest against the fact of Arab citizens voting... but to protest against their voting for the Joint List." timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-face…
In 2016, he said, "I apologized for how my words were misunderstood," (which is an interesting distortion.)
In 2015, amid a flurry of apologies, he was sorry for "hurting" Israeli Arab citizens.
A few hours ago, Netanyahu posted Facebook video-- that wasn't transmitted by any of his spokespeople or by the Government Press Office, as is customary. You won't see it on either of his Twitter feeds or his Youtube channels. It hasn't been translated into English.
What is this thing? Its a masterful piece of manipulation, intended to be injected directly into the veins of his Hebrew-speaking, Israeli base. Here we go: Thank you, Israeli masses. Thank you for the for the uncommon love. facebook.com/Netanyahu/vide…
I know you’ll be heading out to the highway protests, you’ll be in Tel Aviv, at the Tel Aviv Museum, on Tuesday night, but above all else, you are in my heart. facebook.com/Netanyahu/vide…