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28.06.2023 - 13:56 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Netanyahu trials: Milchan improved PM‘s image in Israeli media

Milchan had also introduced Mozes to Australian businessman James Packer, who „really liked each other.“ Netanyahu had also asked Milchan to look into laying the groundwork for news mogul Rupert Murdoch, who the prime minister felt had business and political interests aligned with the Netanyahu administration.

Under Case 2000, Netanyahu is accused of having engaged in fraud and breach of trust for meeting with Mozes about advancing legislation to cripple his news competitor in exchange for positive coverage.

28.10.2022 - 23:40 [ Commondreams.org ]

Amnesty Says ICC Israel Probe Should Include ‚Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid‘

(October 25, 2022)

Calling for the International Criminal Court to open a new investigation into possible war crimes by Israeli military forces in Gaza in August, Amnesty International on Tuesday said the court must also include Israel‘s illegal apartheid policies against the Occupied Palestinian Territories in its probe.

The organization‘s call centered on the three-day offensive launched by Israel between August 5-8 in the Gaza Strip, with advocates saying its research suggests three specific attacks could amount to war crimes.

14.08.2022 - 21:49 [ Haaretz ]

Uninvolved: These Are the 36 Palestinian Civilians Killed During Israel’s Gaza Op

6:45 pm IDT

Forty-nine Palestinians have been killed as a result of the latest military escalation between Israel and Islamic Jihad, which lasted three days. They include five girls, 11 boys and four women.

Thirty were killed during Israeli strikes. Of those, 17 were civilians, among them three girls, a boy and four women. Botched launches of Palestinian rockets killed 19 non-combatants, including 12 children.

28.07.2022 - 17:26 [ US Department of Health & Human Services ]

COVID-19 vaccines linked to small increase in menstrual cycle length

(January 25, 2022)

The study was funded by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Office of Research on Women’s Health. Results appeared in Obstetrics & Gynecology on January 5, 2022.

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The team found that women who received a COVID-19 vaccine had an average increase in cycle length of nearly one day for each dose. Among women who received a two-dose vaccine, the first dose was associated with a 0.71-day increase in cycle length and the second dose with a 0.91-day increase. After adjustment for age, race and ethnicity, BMI, education, and other factors, the change in cycle length was still less than one day for each dose.

Receiving two vaccine doses within the same menstrual cycle increased the cycle length further—about two days on average. Women’s cycle lengths often fluctuate, and experts consider cycle variation of up to eight days to be normal. The longer menstrual cycles after vaccination decreased in subsequent cycles, suggesting they are likely temporary. The researchers did not find any effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the number of menstrual bleeding days.

01.02.2022 - 03:14 [ Haaretz ]

NSO Is an Arm of Israel‘s Government

In 2019 NSO agreed to reconnect the Pegasus system in Saudi Arabia, in the context of Netanyahu’s contacts regarding the Abraham Accords. Until the accords were announced, Israel gave NSO a permit to sell Pegasus to almost all of the countries that signed the agreements.

01.02.2022 - 03:00 [ New York Times ]

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon

(Jan. 28, 2022)

The F.B.I. had bought a version of Pegasus, NSO’s premier spying tool. For nearly a decade, the Israeli firm had been selling its surveillance software on a subscription basis to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world, promising that it could do what no one else — not a private company, not even a state intelligence service — could do: consistently and reliably crack the encrypted communications of any iPhone or Android smartphone.

01.02.2022 - 02:28 [ New York Times ]

F.B.I. Secretly Bought Israeli Spyware and Explored Hacking U.S. Phones

(Jan. 28, 2022)

The Times found that sales of Pegasus played a critical role in securing the support of Arab nations in Israel’s campaign against Iran and negotiating the Abraham Accords, the 2020 diplomatic agreements, signed at a Trump White House ceremony, that normalized relations between Israel and some of its longtime Arab adversaries.

The U.S. had also moved to acquire Pegasus, The Times found. The F.B.I., in a deal never previously reported, bought the spyware in 2019, despite multiple reports that it had been used against activists and political opponents in other countries. It also spent two years discussing whether to deploy a newer product, called Phantom, inside the United States.

09.05.2020 - 05:59 [ CNN ]

Trump sought a reopening but found the virus in the White House instead

President Donald Trump hoped this would be the week he emerged into a nation recovering from pandemic. Instead the pandemic came to him.

25.02.2020 - 13:50 [ Fox News ]

MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews makes on-air apology to Sanders for linking Nevada victory to Nazi rise: ‚I was wrong‘

MSNBC host Chris Matthews offered a rare on-air apology to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after his remarks invoking the rise of Nazi Germany following the 2020 front-runner‘s victory in Nevada sparked major backlash.

24.02.2020 - 19:54 [ theNation.com ]

Why MSNBC Is Freaking Out Over Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders’s overwhelming victory in the Nevada caucus is sending shock waves through the American political system, perhaps nowhere more than on MSNBC. The hosts and guests of the cable news network made no effort to hide their dismay at Sanders’s victory. Even Brian Fallon, national press secretary for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and not someone very favorably inclined to Sanders, was taken aback. “MSNBC sure has a lot of commentators who hate Sanders,” he tweeted.

24.02.2020 - 19:50 [ Samuel D. Finkelstein II / Twitter ]

Bernie winning is basically 9/11

24.02.2020 - 19:12 [ BuzzFeedNews.com ]

MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews Compared Bernie Sanders‘ Nevada Performance To The Nazi Invasion Of France

„I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940,“ said Matthews, „And the general, Reynaud, calls up Churchill and says, ‚It‘s over.‘ And Churchill says, ‚How can that be? You‘ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?‘ He said, ‚It‘s over.'“

Matthews added, „So I had that suppressed feeling.“

The comment prompted outcry not just from Sanders‘ supporters; many people on Twitter described the reference to a Nazi invasion to discuss a prominent Jewish candidate as distasteful.

13.10.2019 - 12:07 [ Radio Utopie ]

Wie die Interpretation des Grundgesetzes zwecks Militäreinsatz im Innern zustande kam

(24. Juli 2016)

Am 17. August 2012 schließlich veröffentlichte das Bundesverfassungsgerichts Beschluss 2 PBvU 1/11.

Wohl gemerkt: einen Beschluss. Nicht etwa ein Urteil.

Durch diesen Beschluss interpretierte das Bundesverfassungsgericht im Jahre 2012 das dreiundsechzig Jahre zuvor in Kraft getretene Grundgesetz einfach um, interpretierte Attentate als „Naturkatastrophe oder..Unglücksfall“ (Wortlaut Grundgesetz Artikel 35!), interpretierte daraus den „Katastrophennotstand“ (von dem im Grundgesetz nie die Rede war und ist) und interpretierte den bestehenden Artikel 35 Grundgesetz dahingehend um, dieser gebe der Regierung das Recht eigenmächtig und ohne Parlamentsbeschluss der Bundeswehr und ihren Soldaten einen bewaffneten Einsatz im Inland zu befehlen, unter Umgehung selbst der „Notstandsgesetze“ und Artikel 87a.

04.10.2019 - 13:25 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Gespräch über Flüchtlinge: Türkei kann auf mehr EU-Gelder hoffen

Innenminister Seehofer lehnt einen türkischen Einmarsch in Syrien ab. Was mehr Geld für Flüchtlinge angeht, zeigte er sich in Ankara aber offen. Von einem dritten EU-Pakt ist die Rede.

04.10.2019 - 13:22 [ ZDF ]

EU wegen Flüchtlingspakt besorgt – Seehofer lobt Ankara und verspricht mehr Hilfe

Im offensichtlichen Bemühen, die jüngsten Spannungen zu glätten, dankte er der türkischen Regierung ausdrücklich für ihre Rolle bei der Bewältigung der Flüchtlingskrise. „Ohne Eure Solidarität wäre das Migrationsproblem in unserer Region so nicht bewältigt worden“, sagte er an den Gastgeber, seinen türkischen Kollegen Süleyman Soylu, gewandt. „Ein ganz herzliches Dankeschön. Das ist eine Leistung, die auch in die Welthistorie eingehen wird.“

16.09.2019 - 08:53 [ Jerusalem Post ]

EU offices in Israel vandalized with ‘German money kills Jews’

A right-wing Israeli activist and anti-asylum seekers activist, Sheffi Paz, filmed herself committing the vandalism, and later admitted to it. Paz is a former member of the left-wing Meretz party.

01.09.2019 - 10:48 [ Haaretz ]

Netanyahu Ratchets Up Attack on Production Company, Journalist Reporting His Corruption Probes

PM claims Keshet Media Group, which produced the HBO series ‚Our Boys‘ that he blasted as anti-Semitic, is ‚committing a terror attack against democracy‘

01.09.2019 - 10:44 [ Haaretz ]

It‘s Now Clear: Netanyahu Won‘t Rest Until a Journalist‘s Blood Is Spilled

We know what should be the fate of perpetrators. The man who more than two decades ago marched in front of a coffin (which he didn’t see, of course, a meter behind him) in a protest against Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and who incited from a balcony in Zion Square, with posters of Rabin in SS uniform below him (which he didn’t see either), has gone back to his evil ways. Or, as the verse says in another context, as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. He seeks chaos, violence and loss of restraint that will allow him to show off his “leadership” and take control of what‘s happening.

31.08.2019 - 11:06 [ Haaretz ]

In Deal With Far-right Leader, Netanyahu Edges Closer to Reelection. Next Up: The Kahanists

Feiglin was a serious obstacle who was in Netanyahu‘s way – and he was pushed out of the way. Next in line are the Kahanist members of the Otzma Yehudit party. Negotiating with them would be more complicated for Netanyahu, because even our prime minister, who has lost all his brakes and morals over the past few years, wouldn‘t think of offering Itamar Ben-Gvir a ministerial post. Or would he?

31.08.2019 - 11:04 [ Times of Israel ]

Zehut bows out of elections after Netanyahu promises Feiglin a cabinet post

Netanyahu has been putting intense pressure on several small right-wing factions to drop out of the election in September so that their votes don’t get “wasted” if they fail to clear the 3.25-percent threshold for entering the Knesset. As with Zehut, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his political representatives have also met over the past two weeks with candidates from the extremist Otzma Yehudit and Noam parties.

29.08.2019 - 19:59 [ Haaretz ]

Netanyahu Strikes Deal With Far-right Leader: Government Portfolio in Exchange for Dropping Election Run

According to sources from Likud, „Netanyahu is investing tremendous efforts to prevent right-wing votes from going to waste.

21.08.2019 - 06:36 [ Haaretz ]

Jews Who Vote Democrat Are Disloyal or Ignorant, Trump Says

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that „any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.“

05.08.2019 - 17:54 [ Haaretz ]

Likud Loyalty Oath Shows Level of Hysteria at Netanyahu’s Residence

The move, which followed Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman’s announced intention to ask Netanyahu’s party for an alternative candidate if the prime minister rejects a unity government with the opposition Kahol Lavan party, will also earn a secure spot in the Pathetic Moment Hall of Fame.

15.07.2019 - 14:01 [ Independent.co.uk ]

Gay conversion therapy works and I’ve given it, says Israeli education minister

Israel’s education minister has provoked a storm of anger by backing “gay conversion therapy”, a discredited technique that seeks to turn people heterosexual.

Rafi Peretz said it could work and that he had even performed it.

“I think that it is possible to convert [someone’s sexual orientation],” Mr Peretz said.

“I can tell you that I have deep familiarity on the issue of education, and I have also done this.”

15.07.2019 - 13:56 [ Haaretz ]

My Family Perished in the Assimilation Shoah, According to Israel‘s Education Minister

Why isn’t the army called in to protect America’s remaining Jews, who every day face the danger of assimilation and annihilation in this Shoah? For what purpose was the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces founded, if not to guarantee that not one more Jew will ever be lost in a Holocaust in the Diaspora? Why aren’t U.S. Jews being airlifted to Israel, or guided by Mossad agents in the Mexican desert?

15.07.2019 - 13:53 [ Vox.com ]

Israeli minister says US Jews marrying non-Jews is “like a second Holocaust”

(10.07.2019)

To label this comment “offensive” is a severe understatement. Fifty-eight percent of American Jews have non-Jewish spouses, per a 2013 Pew survey. Telling the majority of American Jews that they are perpetrating genocide on their own people is about as inflammatory as it gets.