Israel General Discussion: The Return of the Rotation Government

[brucejoel99]

Gilad Arden accepted the dual position as ambassador both to Washington and the US (a post held by Abba Eban ages ago). Ardan would enter his new role on November. Which is interesting. Current ambassador Dremer is very close with the GOP, I think Bibi is keeping him there a bit longer for a strong push on the annexation. But it also seems Bibi does not think Trump is going to win.

"Washington and the US"? Do you mean the US plus international organizations headquartered in Washington like the World Bank and the IMF?

Not who you were replying to, but Erdan's double role will be Ambassador to the U.S. & U.N.

[brucejoel99]

Yoav Gallant- retired General, formerly Construction Minister as part of Kulanu. Defected to Likud and is currently (as I learned from Wikipedia because he's doing literally nothing related to the office) the Immigration Minister. Was almost appointed Chief of the IDF but wasn't because he illegally seized public land. Great example for the kids

Sorry, this might just be me on 24+ hours of no sleep, but what's the news regarding him? To me (& again, this might just be my lack of sleep talking), this just reads like a TL;DR biography of the guy.

[brucejoel99]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-walks-out-of-meeting-with-netanyahu-after-regev-calls-him-half-baked/

I guess it's finally sinking in that he made a deal with the devil and it's not with it. Sucks for him.

Hopefully he loses his own seat after this bullsh*t.

This is so f**ked up. The government isn't even a month old & Bibi has already started undermining the rotation agreement. And this is a familiar tactic too: where he uses Likud loyalists to say things he can't.

I don't understand why Gantz trusted him. Literally everybody saw this coming & warned him & he *still* just walked into it! I still can't believe that he thought this was a good idea.

[brucejoel99]

Some EU states are discussing sanctions on Israel if this Jordan Valley move goes ahead.

Well done Likud, you've dug yourselves in a deep one.

Eh, not gonna happen. EU members can't enforce trade sanctions unless it's backed by the rest of EU, & there will be a cold day in hell before Germany does anything that's critical of Israel.

[brucejoel99]

[snip]

Another win for compassion, human rights, & rationality. Hopefully this becomes law ASAP.