Hizballah Bears Responsibility for the Beirut Blast
There are no prizes for guessing who in Lebanon might be interested in storing such vast quantities of explosive material.
August 6, 2020
No, Benjamin Netanyahu Didn’t Bully a Television News Network to Fire Journalists
The real issue is the Ashkenazi-Sephardi divide.
Last month, Israel’s second-most-popular news network, Channel 13, fired 42 of its employees. Some of the channel’s most prominent reporters claimed, or implied, that the Israeli prime minister had pressured the network to fire them for investigating corruption charges against him. While the network’s CEO, Israel Twito, indeed has close ties with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, there is no evidence to support these claims—which have naturally made their way to the international media, and will no doubt contribute to the “Israeli democracy is in peril” narrative. Haviv Rettig Gur explains the real divide behind the shakeup at Channel 13:
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No, Benjamin Netanyahu Didn’t Bully a Television News Network to Fire Journalists
The real issue is the Ashkenazi-Sephardi divide.
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