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<\/a><\/p>\nNext, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Israel was pulling out of the UN treaty on refugees. \u00a0According to Channel 10’s Barak Ravid, the decision was reached after Austria, Hungary, and the Trump Administration requested that Israel do so. \u00a0Netanyahu proudly stated that “we will always fight against job seekers”, not daring to use the word in Hebrew for refugees. \u00a0It should be noted that the original UN agreement was written after World War II as a direct response to the Holocaust. \u00a0Israel has been active in the drafting of the newest version. \u00a0But I guess our new friends are more important than the values we claim to have.<\/p>\n
As that was not enough for one day — \u00a0President Trump released his embarrassing statement on why the United States was not going to take any action against Saudi Arabia he used Israel as one of the reasons.<\/p>\n
All that was yesterday- today was not quite as bad, with only two really embarrassing events at least that I can remember. \u00a0A bill to recognize the genocide\u00a0of the Yazidi was voted down in the Knesset along party lines. \u00a0MK Yehuda Glick of the Likud voted against the bill after saying how embarrassed he was to do so, but he had to maintain coalition\u00a0discipline. For those who think Israel has an independent parliament, think again. Its only true power is to approve a government or vote it down, in between it is merely a government rubber stamp.<\/p>\n
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Finally tonight the Supreme Court allowed the far right Ateret Cohanim group to go ahead and evict 700 Arab residents of East Jerusalem from their homes in Silwan, that the organization was able to purchase under mysterious circumstances.<\/p>\n
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One final comment on the Airbnb\u00a0controversy. \u00a0They did not remove places in East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights, two places that we annexed and Israeli law is the law of the land. \u00a0As much as the settlers try to make people believe that the laws of Tel Aviv should be the laws of Ofra, under Israeli law Ofra is not part of Israel, just administered by the military. \u00a0There is a difference. \u00a0For many reasons, I do not think it was a good or smart move to boycott the settlements, but it is not the same thing as boycotting Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These past two days it has been depressing to be an Israeli. \u00a0It started with the police recommending to indict Interior Minister Aryeh Deri for a series of financial crimes. \u00a0This is the same Aryeh Deri who served time in jail fifteen years ago for accepting bribes. Deri joins Minister Haim Katz, and Prime Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}