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

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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
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There can be no more fitting end to the political history of Benjamin Netanyahu, the con man who first rode to power over the body of Yitzhak Rabin and now brought the calamity of 10/7 and its bloody aftermath upon all of us, than as a defendant at the @IntlCrimCourt in The Hague
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#TelAviv right now: Tens of thousands of Israelis are back on the streets tonight calling for the immediate ousting of #Netanyahu and his corrupt, inept, and extremist govt. 🇮🇱 #Gaza
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#TelAviv right now: Tens of thousands of Israelis are back on the streets tonight calling for the immediate ousting of #Netanyahu and his corrupt, inept, and extremist govt. 🇮🇱 #GazaWar
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#TelAviv right now: Thousands of anti-govt protesters are once again on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu and his inept, corrupt, and messianic clan. #GazaWar
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#TelAviv right now: In the largest protest since Oct. 7, thousands of Israelis back on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of #Neranyahu , a hostage release-ceasefire deal, and new elections. 🇮🇱 #Gaza
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Yonatan Touval
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#BREAKING : Israeli cabinet told that up to 1,700,000 Gazans (out of a total population of 2.2 million) are no longer able to live in their own homes, either because they've been displaced or because their homes have been destroyed/damaged. (per Channel 12 News)
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#TelAviv right now: In the largest protest since Oct. 7, thousands of Israelis back on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of #Netanyahu and his corrupt and extremist govt. 🇮🇱 #Gaza
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#TelAviv right now: In the largest protest since Oct. 7, thousands of Israelis back on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of #Netanyahu and his corrupt and extremist govt. 🇮🇱 #Gaza
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
#TelAviv tonight: Tens of thousands are calling on the gov't to do ALL it can to bring back the hostages NOW.
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Yonatan Touval
10 months
#TelAviv tonight, as tens of thousands are out to protest Netanyahu's auto-coup. 🇮🇱
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#TelAviv right now: Tens of thousands of anti-govt protesters are calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu and new elections. #GazaWar
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Yonatan Touval
10 months
#TelAviv tonight. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters across the country seeking to stop @Netanyahu 's coup.
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#TelAviv right now: Throngs of anti-govt protesters calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu , a and new elections. #GazaWar
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Yonatan Touval
10 months
#TelAviv pro-democracy protest tonight, 27th consecutive week.
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
#UPDATE : US official confirms to me that key reason for IDF ground invasion delay is US request to complete preps for broader conflict. Preps incl deployment of THAAD and Patriot air defense systems in Gulf (poss also Jordan + northern Iraq) and arrival of USS Ike + 2k marines.
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#TelAviv tonight: Thousands of Israelis are back on the streets protesting for @Netahyahu 's ouster and new elections. NOW.
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Yonatan Touval
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Today, Nov 4, marks 27 yrs to Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. A chief inciters for his murder was Netanyahu. One of the thugs who most openly threatened to murder him was Itamar Ben-Gvir. Together, they're responsible for the latest catastrophe. Their names shall live in infamy.
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Yonatan Touval
4 months
#TelAviv right now: Tens of thousands of Israelis are back on the streets tonight demanding @Netanyahu ouster and new elections. NOW. "An entire country is being held hostage by an unfit man," reads one of the signs.
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Yonatan Touval
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#TelAviv tonight: For the first time this war, thousands of Israelis are protesting for @Netahyahu 's ouster and a change in government. NOW.
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
1 year
Tonight's pro-democracy in Tel Aviv
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
9 months
The 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 who murdered a 19-year old Palestinian last night has been identified: ▪️ Named Elisha Yered, he is 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗵𝘂'𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝘁. ▪️ Until recently he served…
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@Yonatan_Touval
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10 months
#TelAviv pro-democracy protest, 28th consecutive week.
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@Yonatan_Touval
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9 months
#TelAviv pro-democracy protest, 32nd week in a row. 🇮🇱
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
#TelAviv right now: Thousands rally demanding that the gov't do all it can for an immediate return of all remaining hostages NOW.
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Yonatan Touval
3 months
#TelAviv tonight: Thousands are out on the streets calling for the ouster of @Netanyahu and his extremist-annexationist-messianic govt and for new elections NOW. 🇮🇱🚨🇮🇱
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
#Breaking : Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid calls, for the first time, for the immediate ouster of PM Netanyahu. Proposes to join a "reconstruction govt" led by Likud, the largest party, under a new party leader.
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Yonatan Touval
4 months
#TelAviv right now: Thousands of Israelis are back on the streets tonight demanding @Netanyahu 's removal and elections. NOW. "How come @netanyahu is still here while the hostages are still there?," asked one of the rally's speakers.
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
#Scoop (Israel's @kann_news ): #Netanyahu to fellow Likud members: ▪️ "I'm the only one who'll prevent a Palest state in Gaza, Judea and Samaria ▪️ "I'm the only one who can withstand U.S. pressure; ▪️ "I know Biden for 40 years. ▪️ "I know how to manage American public opinion."
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Yonatan Touval
2 months
#TelAviv now: Anti-gov't protesters are back on the streets tonight calling for the immediate ousting of #Netanyahu and his corrupt, inept, and messianic clan. 🇮🇱 #Gaza
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
Growing concern among 🇮🇱 nat'l sec experts that #Netanyahu 's decisions on #war are primarily geared for personal political survival. 👉"The longer the war, the more breathing room he has to figure out how to hold on to power." 👉"When he talks of an existential war ... [cont.]
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#TelAviv pro-democracy protest tonight: "We've only just begun," reads the sign.
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Yonatan Touval
3 months
#TelAviv LIVE: Thousands of Israelis back on the streets tonight calling for the immediate ousting of PM @Netanyahu and new elections.
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
💥STUNNING: Netanyahu believes that the security establishment let the atrocities of Oct 7 happen in order to bring him down. This, per @DaphnaLiel , one of Israel's most mild-mannered and no-nonsense political reporter @N12News .
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לפי דפנה ליאל נתניהו סבור שהדרג הצבאי אפשר את הטבח כדי לפגוע בו. הוא צריך טיפול דחוף.
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For 🇮🇱, Oct 7 marks many ends: - To military hubris - To the idea that 🇮🇱 can manage its conflict w/ the Pal's - To the lie that regional peace can bypass the Pal's - To the idea that a democ state can be gov'd by an indicted leader - To the lie and travesty that was Netanyahu
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#TelAviv right now: Thousands are calling for new elections and the immediate ouster of @Netanyahu .
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4 months
#TelAviv right now: Thousands calling for the ouster of @Netanyahu . Chants include: "Down with the tyrant now."
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
6 months
💥 Israeli @channel13il poll: 𝟳𝟲%: #Netanyahu 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼 (Against only 18% who say he should stay in office.)
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Yonatan Touval
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Israeli border police physically pushing around @CNN reporter 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻 ( @bencnn ) as he tries to cover today's Jerusalem Day March by Jewish supremacists. (Go to 0:35 sec)
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
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Israeli justices, 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙞 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚, strike down Netanyahu's judicial coup. In the coming months, the Israeli people. backed by the courts, will oust Netanyahu and his thugs.
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Yonatan Touval
9 months
#Breaking : Grinning from ear to ear, 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗬𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱, one of the two suspected 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 in the killing of 19-year-old Palestinian 𝗤𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶'𝘁𝗮𝗻 last Friday night, has been released to house arrest. The other suspect,…
@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
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The 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 who murdered a 19-year old Palestinian last night has been identified: ▪️ Named Elisha Yered, he is 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗵𝘂'𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝘁. ▪️ Until recently he served…
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#TelAviv right now: 38th week of anti-coup protests and the last weekend before Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Red banner reads: *No Forgiveness* (w/ face of #Netanyahu ).
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
4 months
Today's @haaretz editorial: "There is nothing more warranted than deposing #Netanyahu . Yes, now. Yes, now, during a war – especially during a war."
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11 months
#TelAviv pro-democracy protest, 22nd consecutive week.
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#BREAKING : Head of largest labor union proclaims: Netanyahu has "brought disaster upon Israel”: 👉Calls on #Netanyahu to resign 👉Warns union could join anti-govt protests. 👉Adds "PM took us to the edge… We’re at a dead-end, and there’s only one way out: elections.”
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Yonatan Touval
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🚨 Growing calls for Netanyahu's ouster ASAP amid debate whether such calls serve 🇮🇱 at time of war 👉Proponents say PM not only responsible for 10/7 disaster but can’t be trusted 👉Reports that PM wife + acolytes steer decisions aimed at political survival, not war efforts
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Daniel Seidemann
7 months
Dan Shilon is one of the founders of and pillars of Israel Broadcast journalism. A voice respected and listened to. "Don't wait. Bring criminal charges against him now. He's a war criminal.
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Yonatan Touval
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When they don't shoot them to death, torch their property or chase them out of their communities, 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 satisfy themselves with degrading Palestinians' dignity and inflicting on them these kinds of dehumanizing humiliations. #PalestinianLivesMatter
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Yonatan Touval
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❕ 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡
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#Jerusalem right now: Tens of thousands of anti-govt protesters are rallying outside the Knesset right now, calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu and new elections. #GazaWar
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Yonatan Touval
8 months
#TelAviv a short while ago: Police use violence against demonstrators who gathered to protest the outrageous arrest of citizen for putting up protest signs against a govt minister from the racist, supremacist Jewish Power party, his next-door neighbor. 🇮🇱
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Yonatan Touval
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💥 #TelAviv live: Thousands of anti-govt Israelis descend to the streets again tonight to protest @Netanyahu 's reckless and inept conduct. Slogan reads: "YOU COULD HAVE SAVED [the hostages]. YOU CHOSE TO BOMB."
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
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Netanyahu, a political con man and snake oil salesman on a global scale, made his false name as "Mr. Security," riding to power over the Israeli bodies of Hamas terror victims in 1996. His name will forever remain identified w/ the calamity of Oct 7. 🇮🇱
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BBC Sounds
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"There will be a time of reckoning for Benjamin Netanyahu" Listen to John Simpson's assessment on what the conflict means for Israel's PM on #BBCNewscast ...
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
6 months
👉"...he means his own political survival." [2/2]
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Yonatan Touval
4 months
The fact that Netanyahu seeks the defense of Alan DERSHOWITZ, the infamous and -- quite literally -- 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹'𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲, whose clients include O. J. Simpson, Mike Tyson, and Jeffrey Epstein, means he thinks his govt is guilty. That's one more reason for him to resign.
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Barak Ravid
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Israeli officials say Netanyahu wants Alan Dershowitz to represent Israel at the @CIJ_ICJ hearing next week about South Africa's accusation that it is conducting genocide in Gaza. I called @AlanDersh who didn't deny and said: "I can't comment about it at this time"
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#SCOOP : The 🇮🇱 govt has designated Minister 𝗕𝗲𝗻-𝗚𝘃𝗶𝗿 to be its rep to the 🇪🇺𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 reception organized by the Delegation of the EU to Israel next week in Tel Aviv. This is not just a finger in the eye -- it's a punch in the gut and a spit on the face.
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
Rage is engulfing the Arab and Mulim world tonight after the catastropic hospital blast in Gaza. Regardless of the cause of the blast, this rage has now become the single greatest threat to a wider regional escalation. Hezbollah has already called for a Day of Rage tomorrow.
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
#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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Yonatan Touval
5 months
Dear world, Remember this man: 𝗭𝘃𝗶 𝗬𝗲𝗵𝗲𝘇𝗸𝗲𝗹𝗶, Arab affairs reporter for @newsisrael13 . Last night, on primetime TV, he criticized the IDF for not launching its offensive in Gaza with an opening salvo "that killed 100,000 Gazans right off the start." Remember him.
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Yonatan Touval
2 months
💥Growing suspicion among key Democratic figures that @Netanyahu seeks open rift w/ @Biden to help Trump. (Report per @AmichaiStein1 )
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@AmichaiStein1
Amichai Stein
2 months
פרסמנו בחדשות הערב ב- @kann_news : החשד במפלגה הדמוקרטית - הביקורת הפומבית של נתניהו על ביידן הוא חלק ממהלך שנועד לסייע לטראמפ לקראת הבחירות
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Yonatan Touval
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#TelAviv right now: Aerial view of the main 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 rally, 36th consecutive week. Main banner reads: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲." 🇮🇱
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Yonatan Touval
11 months
#TelAviv tonight: 21st consecutive week of pro-democracy protest here and across #Israel .
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
It's too early to speculate how today's surprise attack on 🇮🇱 proper will unfold, and whether we're facing an all-out war. One thing is certain: #Netanyahu this morning has ended his political career. His name, like today’s date of Oct. 7, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐲.
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Yonatan Touval
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💥 Former head of the Mossad Tamir Pardo: "Netanyahu is carrying out a coup in Israel, for which I hope he will one day face justice in court of law."
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Yonatan Touval
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#Update : A NATO official tells me that 🇮🇱 military ops reveal themselves to be "an improvisation lacking not only an exit plan but a working plan." "Israelis often confuse improvisation w/ strategy. Much as we'd like to help Israel achieve it goals, we can't without a plan."
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Yonatan Touval
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#Breaking : Israeli police no longer attribute "racist motivation" to 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 Yehiel Indore's killing of 19-year-old 𝗤𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮’𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻 last weekend. 👉Though Israeli police confirm they have compelling evidence that the…
@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
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#Breaking : Grinning from ear to ear, 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗬𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱, one of the two suspected 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 in the killing of 19-year-old Palestinian 𝗤𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶'𝘁𝗮𝗻 last Friday night, has been released to house arrest. The other suspect,…
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
2 months
Thank you, @SenSchumer "Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.”
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Yonatan Touval
9 months
#TelAviv tonight: 30th consecutive pro-democracy protest. 🇮🇱
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
6 months
Just a reminder that just 3 weeks before #Netanyahu presided over the greatest catastrophe to befall the #Jewish people since the #Holocaust , he met with one of the greatest promoters #antisemitic content today.
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Yonatan Touval
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💥 Israel's Channel 12's Legal Reporter:  Netanyahu is a greater danger 🇮🇱 to now: ▪️Collecting materials and shredding evidence so as to clear his name and place the blame on others "Netanyahu is tearing us apart from the inside and undermining the army and the Shin Bet."
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Yonatan Touval
8 months
💥 𝗘𝘅-𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱 chief 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗼 uses the A-word ("#𝗔𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗱") to describe 🇮🇱 policy in the #WestBank , breaking a 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗼 among Israeli officials.💥 via @timesofisrael
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
#TelAviv : Thousands of Israelis holding rally calling for the safe and speedy return of all hostages.
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Yonatan Touval
1 year
#Breaking : Netanyahu reportedly reaches deal with Ben-Gvir to delay judicial coup til Knesset summer session IN EXCHANGE for establishing a "national guard"--ie, armed militias under direct authority of Ben-Gvir to be used at his discretion (against Palest's and all dissenters?).
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
9 months
𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀: #TelAviv pro-democracy protest, 33rd consecutive week. ▶️Main banner reads: 𝒀𝑶𝑼 [in the masculine form] 𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠. The reference is to the rising incidents of 𝗯𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, as male bus…
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
10 months
Israel's March on Jerusalem taking place right now may not be crowded as America's March in Washington of August 1963, but may well go down in history as no less momentous. 🇮🇱
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
🚨Huge: As regional and global stakeholders signal they intend to reignite efforts after the #Gaza war to bring about a 2-state solution, 🇪🇬 Pres Abdel Fattah #alsisi declares that he will support one of Israel's long-standing conditions: that #Palestine be demilitarized.
@Shorouk_News
Shorouk News
5 months
#الشروق شاهد تصريحات الرئيس السيسي عن الحل الوحيد للقضية الفلسطينية بتأسيس دولة : مستعدون أن تكون الدولة منزوعة السلاح
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Yonatan Touval
10 months
#TelAviv earlier tonight. (Volume up!)
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Yonatan Touval
10 months
#TelAviv pro-democracy protest, 28th consecutive week.
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Yonatan Touval
2 years
Given the horrific history of German-Croatian collaboration during WWII, Christian Schmidt ( @OHR_BiH ) should have acted with far greater sensitivity before taking a decision that strengthened the Bosnian Croat ethno-nationalists.
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Jakub Bielamowicz
2 years
Just astonishing to watch @OHR_BiH ’s abusive response to a simple question on 🇭🇷 @VladaRH ’s involvement in his 🇧🇦 Election Law changes. The damage Schmidt has done to @OHR_BiH will be beyond repair unless the int community quickly appoints a replacement.
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
Netanyahu's claim tonight that this is Israel's second war of independence is wrong and dangerous. It also, understandably, raises fear among Pals of a 2nd nakba. His grandiose rhetoric aims to place himself at center of an existential drama and his stature to that of Ben-Gurion.
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
Even in time of war, #Netanyahu 's office continues to operate like a criminal org: ▪️His staff is preparing files to show rivals' role in the lead-up to Oct 7 disaster while allegedly shredding files that could damage PM; ▪️His office planted a sycophantic impostor to... 1/2
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
5 months
Only one reason to remove hostage flyers: when they're released! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
@GaliGnt
Gali Ginatt 🍒
5 months
212 to go, welcome home Hanna Katzir
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
6 months
#UPDATE : U.S. official sheds add'l light on @Politico 's scoop below, telling me the Biden admin is equally preparing for: ◾️Shorter-term scenario in which #Netanyahu continues as PM but is increasingly deemed 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗶𝘁 / 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 and decision-making shifts to others;
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POLITICO
6 months
Biden administration thinks Netanyahu may not last politically
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
11 months
BREAKING: Footage of some of the fires set by dozens of Jewish settlers in the Palestinian West Bank town of Turmus Aya.
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
#Breaking : Netanyahu's toxin-spewing propaganda minister Galit Distel has resigned. May she be the first of many.
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
*Please repost*, asks bereaved Israeli father and high-tech entrepreneur Eyal Waldman, whose daughter and her boyfriend were among those murdered by Hamas on Saturday.
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Yonatan Touval
8 months
#TelAviv pro-democracy protest, 34th week in a row. Main banner reads: "𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹," one of Mrs. Netanyahu's most infamous curses on the country her husband has been ruling for much of the past quarter century.
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Yonatan Touval
7 months
"You piece of fascist!," screams an Israeli refugee from Nahal Oz (one of the border towns decimated by the Hamas terror attack of Oct 7) at extremist and settler cabinet minister Orit Strook who dared to show her face at the Eilat hotel housing him and others. The rage is epic.
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
#SCOOP : Israel's threat to #Qatar was at the direct order of FM Eli Cohen. On Wed, even as Qatar-mediated deal saw scores of hostages free, MFA Dep DG for Strat Affairs @yzarka startled many by saying that after the war 🇮🇱 "will settle its score w/🇶🇦" for its support of #Hamas .
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
5 months
💥 A U.S. official tells me that the #Biden admin is "𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱" by the U.N. Sec-Gen's decision to press for a #UNSC res on a ceasefire in #Gaza , adding that the move risks "𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 to consolidate regional support for day after."
@antonioguterres
António Guterres
5 months
I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General. Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
💥 Despite Biden's unprecedented support, #Netanyahu is considering a staging public showdown w/ him in order to rally his right-wing base and to create a scapegoat if the war fails to meet its ambitious goals (per @Haaretz 's Amos Harel).
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Yonatan Touval
1 year
#Live from #TelAviv : The democratic camp has come out, 13th week in a row, in huge numbers!
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Yonatan Touval
1 year
Tonight's #TelAviv pro-democracy protest: Unprecedented numbers and hope in the air.
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Yonatan Touval
1 year
#Breaking : U.S. official tells me recent statements by Saudi/Gulf officials should "put to rest talk of a major U.S. push for 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶-𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶 #𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻." Calls talks "a campaign full of 𝗵𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗶𝗿 blown by well-meaning folks mostly in #Israel ."
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
2 years
Under Narendra Modi, India is becoming "a petty, vindictive nation that seeks pleasure in humiliating the oppressed and the less privileged." Well put. Opinion | The world is finally reacting to India’s descent into hate
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Yonatan Touval
1 month
💥 Israeli police are cracking down on anti-government protesters 👉 This is footage of police (currently under convicted terrorist-turned-Minister of National Security) searching the home of one of the leaders of the anti-Netanyahu protest movement. 👇
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המשטרה מבצעת חיפוש בדירה של אחת מפעילות המחאה
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Yonatan Touval
5 months
#SCOOP : 𝗥𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿, #Netanyahu 's closest confidante and Israel's de facto foreign minister, has asked relatives of 🇮🇱 hostages to speak out against #Qatar and, if in Washington, to demonstrate in front of its embassy (per @RavivDrucker on @newsisrael13 ). 🇮🇱 🇶🇦
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Yonatan Touval
4 months
How repulsive that @Netanyahu should use the Christmas holiday to call, in so many words, for a war between (Judeo-Christian) civilization against (Muslim) barbarism.
@IsraeliPM
Prime Minister of Israel
4 months
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: To our Christian friends around the world, Merry Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be a time of good will to all men & peace on Earth. Well, we don't have peace on Earth, not in our part anyway & we certainly don't see good will to all men.
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Yonatan Touval
8 months
I'm sorry, 🇮🇱 Amb Erdan, but your 𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 and 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀 as it would be for the #Iranian 🇮🇷 amb to hold up a picture of, say, slain Palestiniam journalist Shireen #AbuAkleh when #Netanyahu speaks on Friday.
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Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן
8 months
New moral stain for the UN ‼️ When President Raisi of Iran, the “Butcher of Tehran,” began his speech, I waved a picture of Mahsa Amini, the innocent Iranian woman who was brutally murdered by the regime one year ago for not wearing a hijab “properly.” Meanwhile, outside the UN…
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Yonatan Touval
10 months
#SCOOP : The U.S. has asked 🇮🇱 for clarifications over its decision to use a UAV to kill 3 West Bank militants last wk. “The intro of armed UAVs raises concern over the potential loosening of rules of engagement in an area that needs to see de-escalation," a U.S. official told me.
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Yonatan Touval
6 months
After decades in which Israeli politicians berated anyone who dared compare any horrific genocidal atrocity to the #Holocaust , Israeli envoy to the UN makes a flawed comparison that instrumentalizes the Holocaust in a sad display of boorish ignorance. 🇮🇱
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@Yonatan_Touval
Yonatan Touval
5 months
💥Top Israeli officials are increasingly alarmed by what they describe to me as Israel's "diplomatic nullity," not least at a time that the war requires a diplomatic endgame. "No one is in charge of the diplomatic front. The FM @elicoh1 is a buffoon and @netanyahu is absent."
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Yonatan Touval
1 month
💥"Stop the War." Lone protester, high above everyone else, in Jerusalem tonight.
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Yonatan Touval
1 month
#Jerusalem right now: Tens of thousands of anti-govt protesters are rallying outside the Knesset right now, calling for the immediate ousting of @Netanyahu and new elections. #GazaWar
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