Intervju med premiärministerkandidat

Om man är intresserad av dagsläget i Israel skall man läsa intervjun med en av premiärministerkandidaterna i valet i höst, Naftali Bennett.

 Bennett to ToI: ‘We’re at an existential moment. Another four years with this government, we won’t have a society’

With US and Iran set to sign deal, former and would-be PM also denounces Netanyahu’s Iran strategy, reliance on ‘protracted wars’; slams the Haredi ‘state within a state’ as causing ‘slow-motion national suicide’

Speaking with ToI on Thursday at the campaign headquarters of Together, the new, merged party he now leads with former prime minister Yair Lapid, Bennett said Israel is facing “an existential moment,” and warned that another term under the current government would leave the country without a functioning economy, society or international position. “Another four years with this government, we won’t have an economy, we won’t have a society,” he charged. “The Haredi issue will just crash us all. We won’t have an international standing anywhere. We have to act now.”

S-gruppens bojkott av Israel

 Adressen som vädjar till S-gruppen att återta sitt beslut att bojkotta israeliska produkter har överlämnats.

Reaktionerna från S-gruppens ledning  visar på stor okunskap om världsläget och en ovilja att ta till sig fakta. S-gruppen följer inte ens sina egna regler vid beslutet. S- gruppens bojkottbeslut handlar i grund och botten bara om Israelhat, om man väljer att säga det rent ut.

Här diskuterar man överlämnandet och S-gruppens underliga agerande:

Israel-studio 114: Adressin luovutus paljasti S-ryhmän Israel-allergian

Veckans David Horovitz

 The bully and the schemer

Trump and Netanyahu may deserve each other. But in the battle against Iran and its proxies, and in the struggle for the democratic, law-abiding, Jewish-majority Israel, we need better

...Which brings us back to Trump’s renewed dissing of Netanyahu.

Like any playground bully, the US president is turning on what he perceives as a weak and vulnerable target, while obsequiously cozying up to what he sees as more dangerous aggressors.

While publicly declaring that Netanyahu will do what he’s told, he repeatedly praises the mass-murdering leaders of Iran as reasonable, rational and “very smart,” and on Sunday even hailed the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, for his “bravery” in ostensibly managing to lead Iran despite having been “pretty badly injured” in the war’s initial Israeli air strikes.

The self-styled great deal-maker appears to be catastrophically out of his depth in negotiating with Iran, employing a non-strategy that might best be described as a mixture of threats, bluster and capitulation. He is seeking assurances that the regime won’t seek nuclear weapons as though any such pledges are of value, relenting on the imperative for a complete, permanent halt to Iranian uranium enrichment, and lately asserting that removing Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium is not really necessary because it is “entombed.”

All this as he implores Tehran to agree to an initial framework deal to get Hormuz reopened, while pushing off all the nuclear weapons-related issues for later negotiations — negotiations in which he would have little leverage because he will have signed an accord committing to the permanent end of the war.

YLE vilseleder människor

 Jag får YLE:s finskspråkiga nyhetsbrev varje morgon. Där kollar jag rubrikerna för att se om något speciellt inträffat.

Idag kunde jag (liksom många andra) läsa att "Israel  slog till på olika håll i Iran, explosioner har hörts i Teheran".  ("Israel iski eri puolille Irania, räjähdyksiä kuultu Teheranissa")

Verkligheten är att Iran igår kväll attackerade Israel med ett tiotal ballistiska missiler. Israel har svarat på attacken.

YLE fortsätter med sin linje som den hållit i tiotals år, att rapportera Israels svar på en attack, den må vara från Iran, Hamas eller Hizbollah, som början på konflikten.

Detta sätta att rapportera har burit frukt. Det finns nu bland befolkningen ett utbrett Israelhat som baserar sig på okunskap och felaktig information.

Rubriken på nätsidan har nu ändrats:

Israel iski eri puolille Irania, Iran teki Israeliin toisen ohjusiskujen sarjan

Trump ties Israel’s hands, as the partnership that went to war 100 days ago collapses

All-clear for Jerusalem area; IDF says all Iranian missiles intercepted this morning

Iran fires missiles at Israel for first time in two months; Trump tells Netanyahu not to retaliate

Trump faller in i den allmänna kören: Irans attack är inget problem för fredsförhandlingarna men om Israel svarar blir det problem. Det är ett förvridet sätt att tänka och skulle knappast förväntas av någon annan är Israel.

Why Israel could not let Iran’s missile attack go unanswered - analysis

Had Israel allowed the attack without response, the message to Tehran would have been pretty clear. Hezbollah could continue ignoring any ceasefire, attacking Israel and its soldiers at will, and any Israeli response to Hezbollah could be framed by Tehran as a provocation, allowing Iran to fire directly at Israel while assuming that American diplomatic pressure would keep Jerusalem’s hands tied.

Judehat i Finland - YLE artikel

YLE (finska) har publicerat en artikel med intervjuer som beskriver judehatet i Finland.

- Judarna i Finland började dölja sin judiska identitet efter att kriget i Gaza gjorde omgivningen mera hotfull.

- Judarna mötet antisemitism speciellt på sociala medier men också ansikte mot ansikte. De görs ansvariga för Israels agerande.

- Enligt de intervjuade är antisemitism också en del av vänsterns retorik. Israel jämförs till exempel med Nazi Tyskland.

-Judarna är rädda att utsättas för våldsdåd och vid den judiska synagogan i Helsingfors har säkerhetsåtgärderna skärpts.

 Juutalaisvihaa Suomessa: ”Minua kutsuttiin vi*** jutkuksi”

Juutalaiset alkoivat piilottaa taustaansa, kun ilmapiiri Suomessa kuumeni Gazan sodan aikana. Yle tapasi Suomen juutalaisia.

Veckans analys av David Horovitz:

Put aside the cursing, and focus on defeating Iran

What’s needed is a civil version of “What the fuck are you doing?” — not from Trump to Netanyahu but from Netanyahu to Trump. To be followed by a joint effort to assess why this war has so signally failed, avoid exacerbating the failure with a dreadful deal, and resolutely turn the tide

...The result is a president all but imploring Tehran’s ruthless leadership to agree to accept incredibly advantageous terms for what he absurdly calls “peace,” beginning with a memorandum of understanding that, as far as we know, channels billions into Iran’s coffers and does not secure any of the war’s original goals — merely setting a framework for talks on Iran’s nuclear program, the fate of its enriched uranium, its ballistic missile development, support for terror proxies, and use of terrorism worldwide.

These are terms that the regime would have jumped at before the war, that will enable it to stave off any genuine concessions for the foreseeable future, that make the Obama nuclear deal Trump abrogated look hermetic by comparison, and that hang Israel out to dry...

Något att tänka på när man söker information på nätet!

David Horovitz delar med sig av sin erfarenhet:

Google’s Gemini AI admits it is unfit for purpose: ‘You should not trust a single thing I say’

Using Google is increasingly unsatisfactory. And its AI tool is utterly unreliable. ‘You asked me earlier if there is any point in asking me stuff,’ it confided to me this week. ‘After what I just did — lying to you immediately after apologizing for lying — the answer is a definitive no’