Die Netanjahu-Kritiker lassen nicht locker. Zum fünften Mal in Folge haben sie in Israel gegen Korruption demonstriert und den Rücktritt des Regierungschefs gefordert.

Natan Eshel, a former chief of staff to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has harshly attacked Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, calling him a “vacillator” and “coward” in WhatsApp messages sent to journalists, television news reported Saturday night.

Eshel, who stepped down as chief of staff in 2012 amid sexual harassment allegations, is considered extremely close to both Netanyahu and his wife Sara.

The results of the investigation are expected within the coming weeks.

„It‘s hard to say when we‘ve reached that red line, that we‘re now in crisis mode,“ Anshel Pfeffer, writer with the newspaper Haaretz, said.

These are only a few of the tactics Israeli soldiers use against incarcerated Palestinian minors. #FreeAhedTamimi

Två veckor efter att Ahed Tamimi, 16, blev världsberömd med sina örfilar mot israeliska soldater förblir hon det stora numret i arabiska och israeliska medier.

Another notable view came up in a dialogue on an Israeli television channel, where one interlocutor said that these children became the Jeanne D’arc/Joan of Arc of Palestine in the Palestinian struggle for freedom, the same as Joan of Arc fought for the freedom of France. In the opinion of another Israeli, the soldier whom Tamimi slapped in the face was so moral and human that he did not retaliate to the blow. There is also an Israeli body of opinion which maintains that Palestinian families have the right to prevent soldiers from entering their homes and breaking through their walls with limited means of violence, but without using weapons because the soldiers do not have any documents allowing them to enter the house and violate its sanctity.

(27.12.2017) Please follow @AlTamimiAhed and spread the word. we will not give up on our #FreedomofSpeech.

In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted “incitement.” The meetings — called for and presided over by one of the most extremist and authoritarian Israeli officials, pro-settlement Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked — came after Israel threatened Facebook that its failure to voluntarily comply with Israeli deletion orders would result in the enactment of laws requiring Facebook to do so, upon pain of being severely fined or even blocked in the country.

The predictable results of those meetings are now clear and well-documented. Ever since, Facebook has been on a censorship rampage against Palestinian activists who protest the decades-long, illegal Israeli occupation, all directed and determined by Israeli officials.

Rouhani hat sich bisher zu den Protesten nicht geäußert. Das soll er nach Angaben iranischer Medien nun am (heutigen) Sonntag tun. Es wird erwartet, dass Rouhani in erster Linie die Hardliner für die Proteste verantwortlich machen wird. Nach Angaben von Vizepräsident Eshaq Jahangiri waren die ersten Proteste in Mashhad im Nordostiran von Hardlinern organisiert worden, um Rouhanis Reformkurs zu schwächen.

Authorities were “temporarily” blocking the social media apps, both of which are popular with Iranians, to “maintain peace” amid the growing demonstrations, state television said Sunday. Many demonstrators had used the apps to share and upload videos from the protests.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov wrote on Twitter that Iran was “blocking access to Telegram for the majority of Iranians after our public refusal to shut down . . . peacefully protesting channels.”