{"id":744,"date":"2023-03-03T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-03-05T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T09:38:44","slug":"news-from-israel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"News about Israel - Barbra Paskin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Barbra Paskin shares the Stateside view on events in Israel<\/h2>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

American Jews are deeply distressed by events in Israel \u2013 where police are confronting protests against the Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s new right wing government.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
They are alarmed by terrorist violence and settler rampages against Palestinians and government moves to weaken the powers of the Israeli Judiciary.\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Sunday's attack in Huwara has led to a slew of headlines here that point to a failure by Netanyahu to uphold his mandate to maintain Israeli stability. The New York Times declared \"Amid Israeli Turmoil, Netanyahu\u2019s Grip Loosens, at Least for Now<\/strong>\" and\u00a0\"Netanyahu is Shattering Israeli Society\".\u00a0<\/strong>While the Washington Post reported\u00a0\"Israel\u2019s far-right government is at the heart of a surge in violence<\/strong>\". In a prescient story early last month, Time magazine recorded Palestinians' mounting fears that Israel's right-wing government may spark settler attacks:\u00a0 \"Settler Attacks in the West Bank Are On the Rise. Israel\u2019s New Leaders May Make it Worse<\/strong>\".\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u201cThere will never be an end to bloodshed,\u201d said Seattle resident Dona Cohen,\u00a0\u00a0\"if this new government stays in power. More lives will be lost \u2013 which is tragic.\u201d

Since the start of the year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 61 Palestinians \u2014 civilians and militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington spokesmen are being unusually forthright in their condemnation of what is happening on the West Bank underlining their disapproval of the escalating violence.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
The Biden administration have called on Israel to pursue the Israeli perpetrators of the Huwara rampage with \"equal rigour\" as it does with Palestinian attacks against Israelis. Calling the actions \"completely unacceptable\", the State Department condemned \"the wide scale and indiscriminate violence by settlers against Palestinians civilians\".
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
The problems have arisen in the two months since the new government was formed with Netanyahu promising his coalition partners to limit the power of the Supreme Court and to impose new restrictions on West Bank residents who want their own state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barbra Paskin shares the Stateside view on events in Israel American Jews are deeply distressed by events in Israel \u2013 where police are confronting protests against the Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s new right wing government.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They are alarmed by terrorist violence and settler rampages against Palestinians and government moves to weaken the powers of the Israeli Judiciary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-other-sources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}