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The White House confirmed its meetings with Netanyahu’s most senior aides regarding the Iranian threat, but there has been no official comment about the Shin Bet director’s visit to Washington.
By World Israel News Staff
Ronen Bar, director of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, is in Washington this week for discussions with the Biden administration, Axios reported.
As noted by Axios, Bar is the most senior intelligence authority regarding Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip and carries great influence on Israeli government policy.
The report stresses concerns in both Washington and Jerusalem about the instability of the Palestinian Authority – currently led by the widely unpopular Mahmoud Abbas – and the possibility of a new intifada.
The Palestinian public in the PA-administered territories appears to favor Hamas, the terrorist organization that rules Gaza, over the PA. Representatives from Hamas won a plurality of seats on Birzeit University’s student council, in a clear example of the terror group’s growing popularity among Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria.
Bar is expected to meet with senior CIA and White House officials, sources told Axios.
National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer are also in Washington, where they met on Thursday with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
According to a White House briefing, Sullivan hosted the Israeli officials “to discuss a broad range of global and regional issues of mutual concern.
“Following up on the March U.S.-Israel Strategic Consultative Group, they continued discussions on enhanced coordination to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and ways to counter threats from Iran and its proxies.
“Mr. Sullivan reaffirmed the Administration’s goal of further enhancing Israel’s security and economic integration throughout the Middle East. Mr. Sullivan also stressed the need to take additional steps to improve the lives of Palestinians, critical to realizing a more peaceful, prosperous, and integrated region.
“Finally, Mr. Sullivan discussed our shared concern with Russia’s deepening military relationship with Iran, and the importance of supporting Ukraine in the defense of its territory and citizenry, including from Iranian drones,” the readout said.
Reports suggest disagreement between Israel and the US administration and that Israel is concerned about the possibility of a revived Iran nuclear deal.
“I have heard all of the reports about Iran. I have a sharp and clear message for both Iran and the international community: Israel will do whatever it needs to do to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Thursday evening.
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President Joe Biden speaks on the debt limit vote process during a meeting with leaders of federal emergency preparedness and response teams in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 31, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
One of the old clichés in Beltway reporting is that there’s some inherent good in “getting things done.” Centrist politicians have long adored the phrase too, largely because it’s so devoid of actual content. To centrist liberals, it has the added bonus of being a handy cudgel with which to bludgeon a Left they insist is too puritanical to muddy itself in the grown-up business of gutting social programs or genuflecting to Wall Street. Infantile progressivism cleaves to impractical ideas like people not being homeless or dying because they can’t afford to see a doctor; adult politics “gets things done.”
So it was probably inevitable that the Joe Biden/Kevin McCarthy deal to raise America’s debt ceiling would radiate some of the familiar rhetoric. Characteristic is Politico’s write-up, which reports the circumstances surrounding the agreement with a dollop of dramatic flair, breathlessly revealing the extensive maneuvers in political management that finally handed “a major victory [to] Biden,” the consummate dealmaker. With assists from elsewhere in the media, the White House is unsurprisingly spinning it this way too.
As ever, the whole thing falls apart the moment you look at what’s actually in the deal or consider what the alternatives to the periodic debt ceiling brokerage there might have been. The Democrats could have raised the debt ceiling at any time during their recent control of Congress and avoided this affair entirely. The debt ceiling being an unusual institution to begin with, they could also have eliminated it altogether (an option Biden casually dismissed last October, deeming it “irresponsible”).
Barring these, Biden could simply have invoked the Fourteenth Amendment, which states “the validity of the public debt of the United States . . . shall not be questioned,” and the government could have continued borrowing.
In lieu of these options, there is now a deal that prioritizes Republican cuts, adds Dickensian work requirements to food aid programs, and worsens climate change.
To this end, a measure included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act to allocate an additional $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) so it could be better equipped to stop rich people from evading taxes is being pared back to $20 billion. Construction of a new greenhouse-gas-spewing pipeline will also be expedited.
When asked about his deal’s inevitable pushing of low-income Americans into hunger, Biden simply waved away the claim as a “ridiculous assertion” — a contemptible dismissal given what detailed analyses like this one from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities reveal about the agreement’s impact on people in poverty:
The debt ceiling agreement, which includes almost all of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) changes from the House-passed debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill, would put almost 750,000 older adults aged fifty to fifty-four at risk of losing food assistance through an expansion of the existing, failed SNAP work-reporting requirement. The expansion of this requirement would take food assistance away from large numbers of people, including many who have serious barriers to employment.
Only in the hollowest and most superficial sense imaginable is the debt ceiling agreement any kind of political “win.” Indeed, it’s incredible to think there are people out there who could read a sentence like, “While the precise details were not clear, the deal raises the age at which adults will be required to work to receive food stamps from 50 to 54” and get the impression there’s some kind of victory to be found here. In a bizarro world where political outcomes are primarily about the elite characters who made them happen rather than the people they will actually affect, virtually anything — no matter how morally horrendous — can be declared a win.
If nothing else, it’s a timely reminder that, for many of the most prominent people involved in deciding how America taxes, spends, and supports (or doesn’t support) its citizens, all of this is barely more than theater.
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Calau lost to a former mayor who she unseated eight years ago.
By World Israel News Staff
Outgoing Barcelona Mayor Ada Calau, a pro-Palestinian activist who recently severed ties with Tel Aviv, lost the municipal election this week to candidate Xavier Trias’ Calau, a former mayor whom she beat in 2015.
In February, Calau, who supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, announced on social media her decision to end the 25-year-long twin-city arrangement with Tel Aviv.
“At the request of more than 100 entities and thousands of Barcelona neighbors, I have just communicated to Netanyahu that we suspend institutional relations with the State of Israel due to the repeated violations of human rights of the Palestinian population and non-compliance with United Nations resolutions,” she wrote on Facebook in Spanish, and on Instagram.
The city will maintain relations with “Israeli and Palestinian entities that continue to work for peace and against apartheid,” she added.
It appears that the statement by Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat, saying the decision was “in complete contrast to the position of the majority of the residents of Barcelona and their representatives in the city council,” was correct, judging by her loss.
“The friendship between Israel and Barcelona is long-standing, and is based on shared culture and values. Even this unfortunate decision will not damage this friendship,” Haiat said.
The Spanish government slammed Calau’s decision.
Several weeks later, a Jewish house of worship in Barcelona was vandalized; it was the second such incident in the city in less than 10 days, JNS reported at the time.
Graffiti reading “Why do you kill in Palestine” was spray-painted outside a Chabad synagogue in the city.
In the first incident, the Great Synagogue of Barcelona was defaced with graffiti reading, “Free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, blamed that desecration on Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau’s decision to sever the city’s twinning agreement with Tel Aviv.
“The irresponsible decision of the mayor of Barcelona to unilaterally sever relations with the State of Israel has put the Jewish community in the city in real danger,” said Goldschmidt. “Every additional case of vandalism and bloodshed as a result of this unfortunate choice will be on her hands.”
The Lawfare Project filed a lawsuit against Calau in April. “The suspension of relations with Israel represents a total misuse of the legal process to engage in a bigoted and partisan campaign, rather than a legal decision within the scope of the Mayor of Barcelona’s power,” explained LP’s executive director Brooke Goldstein.
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