Overnight in Israel, the American State Department summoned Israel's ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, for an unusual conversation, due to the changes in the 2005 Disengagement Law that will allow Israelis to once again reside in Northern Samaria. The law, which has been presented to the Knesset seven times throughout the years and has bipartisan support, was viewed as a tactical mistake by an Israeli government on the heels of the second Intifada.
The Syrian media reported Wednesday morning that during the night, Israeli Air Force jets attacked the airport in Aleppo in the north of the country. This is the second time in two weeks that the Syrians have reported Israel Defense Forces night strikes on their territory. According to the reports, the air defense systems were activated and explosions were heard in the area and they claim the attack was foiled. It was also reported that the attack that hit the international airport was carried out using four missiles that came from the western part, that is coming from Lebanon, while the aircraft used and the targets of the attack are still unknown.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich caused another storm Sunday night at an event held in Paris in memory of Jacques Kupfer, who was the head of the freedom movement in France and active in the Zionist Organization. During his speech, the controversial Finance Minister said that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian. The Palestinian people are an invention that is less than 100 years old. I am Palestinian, My grandfather, who was a 13th generation Jerusalemite, is the real Palestinian. My grandmother, who was born more than 100 years ago to a family of pioneers, is Palestinian."
The City University of New York (CUNY), the largest public university in the United States, will give credits to students who come to the screening of the Jordanian film "Farha" at the end of this month, a fiction film based on the Palestinian narrative of the war for Israel's independence that they call the “Nakba” or "tragedy" that many critics have said bears a strong resemblance to the Diary of Anne Frank, the true story of a Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. In the Jordanian made film, soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces are seen brutally executing a family, including a baby.
One of the most iconic economic newspapers in the world, the British publication The Economist, published Thursday a heated article against the Israeli judicial reform and listed the risks involved in it. In the title of the article, they wondered: "Will Bibi Break Israel?" while on the cover, Netanyahu's image is emblazoned within a torn Israeli flag.
