Yonatan Touval

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Personal Account Mitvim, The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies Words in: @Haaretz @Time @WashingtonPost @NYT @LATimes Email: ytouval@mitvim.org.il

🚨 A short-sighted, populist move by Israel’s shallow FM. 🇮🇪 Ireland is 🇮🇱 Israel’s largest EU trading partner (thanks to @intel), and shutting down its Dublin embassy is to undermine Israel’s own economic interests.

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#BREAKING: In a pre-recorded message rathern live, PM Netanyahu delivers a rambling, disjointed defense of the ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, downplaying its significance while recycling empty rhetoric about "total victory" over Hamas, the Iranian threat, and hollow promises on hostage release.

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🚨#ICC impact: Netanyahu might never visit the U.S. ever again, even as President Trump's guest. Though safe in the U.S., flying over Europe will now carry the risk of an emergency landing (due to mechanical or health reasons) -- and thus possible arrest.

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On Netanyahu's new Defense Minister Israel Katz: Comical, pathetic ministers are hallmarks of dictatorships—appointed on the leader's whim to flaunt his power. Their humiliation is deliberate, a grotesque homage: "Do with me as you will, degrade me, I was born for this." (by Rogel Alpher, Haaretz)

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Wow. The Israeli airliner, El Al, has now resumed flying to... 𝒀𝒖𝒈𝒐𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒂!! (See last line. Nine seats still available on tomorrow's flight 5165.)

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#TelAviv, week 39 of the pro-democracy protest. A few days after #Netanyahu incited against liberal Israelis, depicting them as leftist pogromists attacking patriotic Jews, the main banner reads: YOU WILL NOT DIVIDE US. 🇮🇱

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#TelAviv, week 39 of the pro-democracy protest. A few days after #Netanyahu incited against liberal Israelis, depicting them as leftist pogromists attacking patriotic Jews, the main banner reads: YOU WILL NOT DIVIDE US. 🇮🇱

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Ahead of #Biden's mtg w/ #Netanyahu tomorrow, it's important we remember that, under Netanyahu, 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 has increasingly been acting as an 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆, not an ally, 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦. (See my piece, together w/ @pardosharon, in @TIME below.) time.com/6265254/neta...

Netanyahu Has Made Israel a U.S. Adversary

From China to Putin's war in Ukraine, Israel has pursued policies against American strategic interests

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