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Ron Skolnik
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Writer, editor, analyst, translator. Sharer of ideas. Mostly on Israel, American Jewish community, US politics. Say no to sanctimony.
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Ron Skolnik
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Read Benny Gantz's speech and you'll see that his platform on peace/security issues would have found a home in Likud - before its recent descent into hypernationalism. @noa_landau nails it. haaretz.com/israel-news/el…
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Ron Skolnik
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Meanwhile, the Senate GOP is pushing "pro-Israel" (quotation marks because it's not really pro-Israel) legislation that undermines the marketplace of ideas. twitter.com/jdgreenblatt45…
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Ron Skolnik
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Israel Resilience, Yesh Atid, Labor, Joint List, ARM, Meretz, Kulanu, averaging a combined 57 seats in polls, have already said they won't join a govt led by an indicted Netanyahu.
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Ron Skolnik
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Yes, damage done (not to mention article's wading into occupation-denial) - but @nytimes should still mitigate via correction.
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Ron Skolnik
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Latest, post-Gantz-kickoff election poll has 3 parties (2 of them Netanyahu allies) teetering around the vote threshold, and 4 other parties not much safer. This could tip the balance and be the story of the elections (my article coming soon). #IsraElex19 pic.twitter.com/R8ZdE8JBSt
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Ron Skolnik
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Small but very significant correction to the @nytimes article on pro-Israel Dems nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/… by @jmartNYT: Post-it note in Rep. Tlaib's office reading "Palestine" was not placed "over Israel", but over Libya/Egypt. pic.twitter.com/fINabPazsa
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Ron Skolnik
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And here's the UN reaction: "While the TIPH is not a United Nations body, its role in contributing positively to defusing tensions in such a sensitive area has been widely recognized, including by the General Assembly (most recently in resolution 73/99)." jpost.com/Israel-News/Pa…
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Ron Skolnik
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Norwegian Foreign Ministry says Israel's decision to expel TIPH observers from Hebron might be a violation of the Oslo Accords. They note that the situation in Hebron is unstable and that the expulsion of TIPH is a "concerning" development. twitter.com/kann_news/stat…
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Debra Shushan🔸דבורה שושן🔸دبرا شوشان
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In case there's any doubt regarding what the S.1 exercise was all about... twitter.com/RJC/status/109…
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Ron Skolnik
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I tend to agree. I don't in any way consider Gantz "left" (unless "left" semantically takes in everyone not committed to Greater Land of Israel), but I do think it's true that Israeli public opinion loves its security credentials and tough talk.
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Joshua Leifer
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Pretty insane that the @nytimes hedged on naming the occupation. It's not only what @IfNotNowOrg "calls' the occupation. It's what the UN, international law, and basically the rest of the entire world except for the US press, defines as the occupation. twitter.com/IfNotNowOrg/st…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
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Now 4 #Israeli candidates propose some form of regional approach to advancing resolution w #Palestinians (Gantz, Lapid, Livni, Gabbay). That's b/c they're all competing for the center & somehow peace is coming back on agenda. For real? Read. 972mag.com/the-future-is-… @972mag
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Ron Skolnik
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Summing up Benny Gantz's speech: He came across as a mainstream liberal on domestic issues and as a security-first rightist (i.e. not ideological right) on peace/security #IsraElex19
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Ron Skolnik
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Gantz embodies the Israeli mainstream, promising: Even if we don't reach peace with our neighbors, at least we'll reach domestic harmony. #IsraElex19
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Ron Skolnik
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Benny Gantz says his government would "strive for peace" - yes, that's significant since "peace" is an unpopular word nowadays - citing Menachem Begin of Likud and Yitzhak Rabin of Labor as peacemakers to cover his flanks on both sides. #IsraElex19
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Michael Pitkowsky
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For anybody who is interested in seeing the much talked about Benny Gantz speech it can be watched here. @gantzbe @hosen2israel youtu.be/vkY5SZ8JkH0 #IsraElex19
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Ron Skolnik
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I haven't seen Edelstein's position, but annexationists vary on this question, though the dominant "centrist" approach is to give Palestinians the status of "residents" with autonomy, w/o voting rights. I surveyed this here -archive.jewishcurrents.org/israels-one-st…
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Louis Fishman
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Good for @Tzipi_Livni: She seems to be only center politician speaking out against attack on Israel's institutions. Its ironic Israeli politicians have gone so far right, that her voice is now a lone one. Obviously based my own politics she's not my cup of tea, but credit is due. twitter.com/Tzipi_Livni/st…
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Ron Skolnik
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Some right-wing Israelis see the failure to annex as an implied admission that the territories are occupied or at least up for negotiation. They believe annexation would put a halt, eventually, to any int'l pressure (which they fear) to reach a 2-state solution.
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Ron Skolnik
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Favorite line from his op-ed: "With my background in Judaism, maybe I could have gotten into the Jewish Home party - but I'll always be in the liberal House of Hillel, and they're the conservative House of Shammai."
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