2025-12-03: Netanyahu Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-04 05:55am GMT

Jonathan Lis (2025-12-03). Netanyahu sends envoy to Lebanon for talks on bilateral ties under U.S. pressure. haaretz.com According to Netanyahu's office, the move marks the first attempt to establish a foundation for economic relations and cooperation between Israel and Lebanon, which do not have diplomatic ties…

Chen Maanit (2025-12-03). High Court blocks Netanyahu nominee to lead Sde Teiman abuse leak inquiry. haaretz.com Justices say former judge is not a senior civil servant as the court required. One said that his temporary appointment raises concerns that he would act as 'the minister's emissary' and increases the risk of the probe becoming politicized…

newarab (2025-12-03). Netanyahu's coalition skips vote on backing Trump's Gaza plan. newarab.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's The vote, proposed by opposition leader

Dahlia Scheindlin (2025-12-03). Kicking the corpse: pardon request caps the slow death of law in Israel. haaretz.com The Israeli government's respect for the rule of law is nonexistent, but it is still Benjamin Netanyahu who makes the greatest mockery of it. The prime minister's request to end his trial is only the most outlandish part of his government's efforts to undermine Israel's institutions, legal norms and democracy…

newarab (2025-12-03). Netanyahu says to visit New York despite Mamdani arrest threat. newarab.com Israeli Prime Minister "Yes, I'll come to New York," Netanyahu said in a virtual interview with the New York Times' Dealbook forum. | Asked if he would seek to speak to Mamdani, Netanyahu replied, "If he changes his min…

Staff (2025-12-03). Report: Netanyahu asked Trump for further help in pardon request during recent call. haaretz.com According to a Channel 12 News report, Trump pressed Netanyahu on killing Rafah tunnel militants and told Israel to 'take it easy' in Syria, as Netanyahu struck a softer tone during a visit to an IDF enlistment center and framed his pardon plea as a bid for national 'healing' — without admitting any guilt…

newarab (2025-12-03). Document shows Netanyahu backing West Bank settler outposts. newarab.com

Liza Rozovsky (2025-12-03). German Chancellor Merz to arrive in Israel on his first visit since taking office. haaretz.com According to a German government statement, Friedrich Merz is expected to discuss stabilizing the Gaza cease-fire with PM Netanyahu. Merz is the first leader of a major European country to visit since an arrest warrant was issued against Netanyahu a year ago by the International Criminal Court…

Nirit Anderman (2025-12-03). Israeli culture minister threatens Tel Aviv cinema budget over Human Rights film festival. haaretz.com The Israeli government is targeting the Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival, scheduled to open Thursday at Tel Aviv's Cinematheque. The minister alleges the festival is supported by 'anti-Israeli' organizations, naming groups including the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum and Breaking the Silence…

Ed Sykes (2025-12-03). Hillary Clinton wants to gaslight young people about Israel's genocide but she's too late. thecanary.co Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fears the independence of younger generations. And in a vomit-worthy new interview, she has launched a desperate attack on them in defence of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Zionist neoliberal warhawk Clinton has a track record of trying to gaslight people about the genocide (and the occupation of Palestine more generally). […] | By

newarab (2025-12-03). Israel intensifies Gaza attacks, amid expansion of 'Yellow Line'. newarab.com

Jack Khoury (2025-12-03). Yellow Line well marked — but for Palestinians, it separates life and death. haaretz.com In many cases, the line Israel drew on the maps is not marked on the ground. The IDF's response policy is clear: anyone who approaches the forbidden area is shot immediately, even when they are children…

Matan Golan (2025-12-03). becomes Israeli NGOs say past two years most destructive for Palestinians since 1967. haaretz.com A joint report by 12 Israeli human rights organizations documents rising fatalities, mass displacement, settlement expansion and harsh military policies have turned 'extreme practices to become operational and policy norms' across Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem…

Amy Goodman (2025-12-03). Israel Will Reopen Rafah Border Crossing — Only for Palestinians to Leave. truthout.org Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that Israel's goal is to "continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza." This comes as a coalition… |

Sondos Asem, Middle East Eye. (2025-12-03). ICC Has Taken 'Confidential' Measures To Protect Court From US Sanctions. popularresistance.org International Criminal Court (ICC) officials on Monday said the court is implementing countermeasures to protect the court from US sanctions, but they will remain confidential to ensure their effectiveness. | The officials spoke in The Hague on the first day of the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), which is made up of representatives from 125 countries that have ratified the ICC's founding Rome Statute. | The gathering is taking place at a time of unprecedented threats to the court, prompted mostly by its investigation into Israeli officials over alleged war crimes in Gaza and the occupied P…

Max Gross (2025-12-03). UN endorses Trump-backed Gaza plan, drawing condemnation from Palestinians. independentaustralia.net

Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. (2025-12-03). Europe Marks International Day Of Solidarity With Palestine. popularresistance.org The Palestine solidarity movement in Europe again brought record numbers to the streets on the UN's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 29, reaffirming demands for an end to government complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine. Hundreds of thousands marched across the region, with demonstrations in London and Rome each reaching an estimated 100,000 participants. | "On this day, people around the world express their support for the inalienable rights that are currently denied to Palestinians: the right to live free from discrimination, the right to…

newarab (2025-12-03). UN chief Guterres says Israel's conduct of war in Gaza 'fundamentally wrong'. newarab.com There was something "fundamentally wrong" with how Israel conducted its military operation in the "I think there was something fundamentally wrong in the way this operation was conducted with total neglect in relation to the deaths of civilians a…

en.mehrnews (2025-12-03). Gaza death toll exceeds 70,100 since October 07. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 03 (MNA) — The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has said that Israeli forces have killed 70,117 Palestinian people in the enclave since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 07, 2023.

aljazeera (2025-12-03). Israel preparing to receive remains found in northern Gaza. aljazeera.com Hamas and Islamic Jihad members say remains recovered in northern Gaza are that of another Israeli captive.

THINK TANK Productions (2025-12-03). London Solidarity Thousands March for Gaza UK Hunger Strikers. thinktank.pk Thousands filled the streets of London on the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, demanding justice for Gaza and urgent action for UK hunger strikers held on remand. Protesters carried powerful messages — "End the genocide," "Support our hunger strikers," and "Holocaust survivor descendants against Gaza genocide." Speakers accused global powers of …

aljazeera (2025-12-03). Renovated al-Shifa Hospital ward in Gaza is barely operational. aljazeera.com The maternity building at Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital has been newly renovated, but inside it remains largely unusable.

newarab (2025-12-03). Gaza: Egypt rejects Israeli decision to open Rafah for exit only. newarab.com According to the Egyptian State Information Service, Citing an Egyptian official, the service stated that "any agreement to open the crossing will cover both entry and exit,…

en.mehrnews (2025-12-03). Grossi says IAEA inspected unattacked nuclear sites of Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 03 (MNA) — IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said inspectors have visited all Iranian nuclear facilities that were not struck in June's attacks, while access to Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow remains suspended due to security concerns.

Ana Vraƒçar (2025-12-03). "No room for fear" : broad antifascist front confronts far-right violence in Croatia. peoplesdispatch.org Tens of thousands of people in four Croatian cities took to the streets on Sunday, November 30, responding to a call from the initiative "We stand united against f…

Rann Miller (2025-12-03). Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott Seventy Years On. progressive.org The current movement against the fascist regime in the United States can learn from Black resistance, including the famed bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement.

Skwawkbox (2025-12-03). Trump's racist rant about Somali people rejected by Americans. thecanary.co City leaders from Minnesota's 'Twin Cities' of Minneapolis and St. Paul have stood firmly with their Somali communities after Donald Trump's disgraceful racist rant against Somali people. Yesterday, Trump described Somalis living in the US, including Somali-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, as "garbage" and ranted that they should be sent 'home', adding that Somalia "stinks" and […] | By

Abby Zimet (2025-12-03). Fog Of Bullshit: Racist Clowns, Liars and Psycopaths. commondreams.org The surreal and deadly lurches on. In the last, frantic, script-flipping week, MAGA went from threatening to kill Dems who reminded troops to obey the law to scurrying to parse or ignore the news their macho, bungling Secretary of War Crimes evidently blew apart (at least) two guys in the water for no reason – an action universally deemed either murder or war crime, but def against the law. Now see Kegseth et al thrash, bluster, scapegoat the other guy. Trump doctrine: Deport, raze, blame, kill first; think (sic) later. Most notably, a flailing presidency of "malevolence tempered by incompetence" – Cue the bo…

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