💥🧵#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>>

💥🧵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

💥 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.

🪧🗣️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

#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…

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.)

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…

Remember 2015, when Benjamin Netanyahu broke elections law & took to Facebook to warn "The Arabs are voting! The Arabs are voting!" like a twisted Paul Revere? And then, shamed, apologized for the shocking racism? timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-apol… Those were the days…

Its not as dramatic as a Congressional hearing, but there's weird stuff happening behind the scenes of Netanyahu's legal imbroglio. Short thread: Netanyahu appears willing to try anything to make the pre-indictment & anyone associated with it disappear. In July, Netanyahu's interim justice minister fired the universally respected Justice Ministry Director General

https://twitter.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1153643061718786049

As we approach a final ballot count, Gantz seems to widen a slight lead over Netanyahu. So what does The Master do? (He takes charge, like he did in April.) In a video filmed at his official residence, Netanyahu calls on Gantz to meet-- even today!-- to form a national union government under his leadership.

THREAD: Israel believes a Trump/Rouhani meeting is a done deal. It is impossible to overstate the failure for Benjamin Netanyahu's claims regarding his statesmanship. Imagine for a moment Netanyahu's reaction had Obama announced his desire to meet Rouhani. haaretz.com/israel-news/ne… Blue&White isn't blowing it up either because 1. they're still operating under the impression one does not criticise the prime minister about foreign affairs (lol) or 2. because they don't want to provoke the inevitable Trump/Netanyahu public kumbaya over Iran, if they criticise.

#IsraElex19 is characterized by shallowness, no inspiration, no ideology, no future, no thought beyond howling calls for attention. Here’s an ad from Bibi, with a squeaky mouse voiced Yair Lapid telling you he was the worst finance minister in history. (Netanyahu appointed him) Here Gantz Blue&White party tells you: vote Netanyahu, you’ll get Kahane

1/ Buffeted by blowback to decision allowing the Jewish Power party into his governing coalition, Netanyahu has engaged in an interesting maneuver.
(short thread) Netanyahu's attorney had the gall to ask Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to release evidentiary material proving that the prime minister's relationship with Shaul Elovitch, Bibi friend & telecom titan, was not inappropriate. israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx…

One hell of a scoop from @BarakRavid: Viktor Orban’s government is establishing a new Holocaust museum to be called "The House of Destinies". Orban appointed the historian Maria Schmidt* to found the museum

https://twitter.com/barakravid/status/1070400294826192896

Schmidt is in Orban’s close circle and is known as a leader of the recent Hungarian movement to rewrite Holocaust history and formulate a narrative that reduces the involvement of Hungarians in Nazi crimes in the Holocaust. Sound familiar? Its much like that Polish law.

Mini-thread on the very strange decision of senior Israeli officials sent to console Pittsburgh choosing to defend Trump instead: First off, there were evident talking points. Here's Dermer: "It's not a new problem... It’s a growing problem, its been growing for about 2 decades & I think with the advent of social media its allowed these purveyors of hate to spread their message far & wide and to connect

#Breaking: Trump says interview in @TheSun is fake news and White House has tapes made on "recording machine" to prove it. Standing next to "Theresa," Trump claims US & Britain both want excellent relations with Russia, makes no mention of #Novichok