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Gadi Eisenkot, a retired chief of the I.D.F., currently appears to have the best chance of unseating Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israel’s history. As David Remnick followed Eisenkot’s campaign, he writes, “it became clear that the most adhesive aspect of his appeal had little to do with ideology or policy. If he wins (and that, despite recent surges in the polls, is far from assured, considering Netanyahu’s political skills), it will be because he is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi.”
But Netanyahu, “despite his diminished standing and Eisenkot’s ascendance of late, could well be reëlected this fall,” Remnick continues. “His methods will be familiar to Americans. He survives by sheer demagoguery and by catering to an implacable, MAGA-like base, indulging extremist ministers in their pursuit of annexation and ethnic cleansing, and acceding to ultra-Orthodox demands for exemption from military service and ongoing access to enormous state subsidies.” Remnick reports from Israel on the state of the race for Prime Minister: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/A0…
Nero Fiddles: The Last Days of a Government Without Shame open.substack.com/pub/danny5…
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NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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Friends Eric Eisenstadt and @fayrosenfeld celebrate another historic moment.
#Vday #Election2020 #Election2020results #timessquare #love #Trending #beautiful #photooftheday
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Israel’s PM has turned 2 critics into martyrs, weakened its reputation as the region’s strongest democracy, & jeopardized the tradition of bipartisan American support for Israel-all to give in to @realDonaldTrump’s desire for a political talking point. Talk about short-sighted!