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Or these developments are just coincidences?
Ex MAGA-bro (who also happened to be Trump's fundee-brother as both shared same top donor Adelson) Bibi's exit is not a done deal yet but things heading in that direction.
The Trump-Netanyahu bromance
Opinion by Samuel G. Freedman
cnn.com/2021/05/18/opinions/trump-netanyahu-american-jewish-divide-israel-freedman/index.html
Biden dramatically scales up the pressure on Netanyahu as decades-long relationship faces its most consequential moment
Wed May 19, 2021
CNN)President Joe Biden on Wednesday dramatically escalated his public pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the fighting with Hamas that has stretched into a 10th day, as their decades-long relationship faces a stern test.The White House said Biden told Netanyahu "that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire" in the raging violence. The statement was a signal Biden is losing patience with Netanyahu, a leader he has known for four decades.
cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/biden-netanyahu-relationship/index.html
May 30, 2021
END OF ROAD FOR BIBI? Opposition to form new Israeli govt... Developing...
Bennett: millionaire who may end Netanyahu era
Though a staunch supporter of Israel's religious right and the settler community, Yamina head comparatively liberal on issues such as gay rights and state-religion affairs
Bennett: I'll do my best to form gov't with Yair Lapid
Yamina chief says Netanyahu never had a right-wing coalition, only options are joining 'coalition for change' or 5th election; PM accuses former aide of orchestrating 'the scam of the century'
Israelis seeking U.S. travel visa told to wait until August 2022
ynetnews, 06.02.21
Indian PM 'endorses Trump for 2020 in breach of diplomatic convention'
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump attend the "Howdy, Modi!" rally at NRG Stadium in Houston Sunday.
Backlash against Modi as Indian PM 'endorses Trump for 2020 in breach of diplomatic convention'
Speaking in Texas, Modi repeated to rapturous applause the borrowed Trump campaign slogan: ‘Abki baar Trump sarkar (This time, [a] Trump government)’September 23, 2019
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has been accused of “interfering” in the next US presidential election after he gave a speech in Texas that critics say tacitly endorsed Donald Trump for re-election in 2020.
Mr Modi made the comments as he appeared onstage alongside the US president during a rally in Houston on Sunday, which was attended by more than 50,000 members of the Indian diaspora.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...uston-texas-rally-2020-election-a9116926.html
Biden’s Misstep in India
The president’s foreign-policy and domestic teams have a long-standing difference on pandemic diplomacy.
April 28, 2021
Thomas Wright
On April 16, Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, tweeted at Biden:
Many governments offered to help, including India’s geopolitical adversaries China and Pakistan. The Biden administration, which was in constant contact with Indian officials, was strangely silent in public. Last Wednesday, the press asked Ned Price, the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, about U.S. export restrictions. The administration, he said, has “a special responsibility to the American people,” who have “been hit harder than any other country around the world … It is not only in our interest to see Americans vaccinated; it’s in the interests of the rest of the world to see Americans vaccinated.”
Price said only what the administration had been saying for months, but his comments landed very differently at a time when America’s COVID-19 problem was rapidly improving and India’s was careening out of control. The remarks sparked a firestorm of criticism in the Indian press, on social media, and on messaging apps. India’s leadership understood the political constraints on the Biden administration and did not criticize the United States. But as India’s health situation deteriorated, its political leaders lost hold of the narrative. The public understandably had little patience with the political limitations of another government, especially one that seemed well positioned to help. An Indian official would later tell The Wall Street Journal, “What took us by surprise was the slow response by the U.S. It created some misgivings in the public opinion, and that sometimes creates complications.”
Read: Why the world should worry about India
That frustration was compounded by the fact that much of India’s elite had little sympathy for Biden to begin with. This past summer, the Center for Strategic and International Studies conducted a survey of thought leaders from 16 U.S. allies in Europe and Asia. India and Vietnam were the only countries that thought Trump would do a better job than Biden on China. Indians also remember that Trump sent ventilators to India as part of a deal in which President Narendra Modi lifted restrictions on exports of hydroxychloroquine to the United States.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/bidens-misstep-in-india/618722/
President Biden Bans Travel from India Due to Covid-19
nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics
Apr 30, 2021 — U.S. Moves to Restrict Travel From India as Virus Infections and Deaths Surge ...
Modi’s party loses key state election amid pandemic vote
The Washington Post
May 2, 2021
Protesting Farmers Elated Over Modi's Party Defeat In Key State Election
May 3, 2021
BBC Reality Check
Kamala Harris has not publicly backed farmers' protest
A fake screenshot of US vice-president-elect Kamala Harris apparently extending support to the protesting farmers in India has been shared on Facebook.
Potentially-Related
India's Modi to sleep in Trump's bed in Israel
Ex MAGA-bro (who also happened to be Trump's fundee-brother as both shared same top donor Adelson) Bibi's exit is not a done deal yet but things heading in that direction.
The Trump-Netanyahu bromance
Opinion by Samuel G. Freedman
cnn.com/2021/05/18/opinions/trump-netanyahu-american-jewish-divide-israel-freedman/index.html
Biden dramatically scales up the pressure on Netanyahu as decades-long relationship faces its most consequential moment
Wed May 19, 2021
CNN)President Joe Biden on Wednesday dramatically escalated his public pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the fighting with Hamas that has stretched into a 10th day, as their decades-long relationship faces a stern test.The White House said Biden told Netanyahu "that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire" in the raging violence. The statement was a signal Biden is losing patience with Netanyahu, a leader he has known for four decades.
cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/biden-netanyahu-relationship/index.html
May 30, 2021
END OF ROAD FOR BIBI? Opposition to form new Israeli govt... Developing...
Bennett: millionaire who may end Netanyahu era
Though a staunch supporter of Israel's religious right and the settler community, Yamina head comparatively liberal on issues such as gay rights and state-religion affairs
Bennett: I'll do my best to form gov't with Yair Lapid
Yamina chief says Netanyahu never had a right-wing coalition, only options are joining 'coalition for change' or 5th election; PM accuses former aide of orchestrating 'the scam of the century'
Israelis seeking U.S. travel visa told to wait until August 2022
ynetnews, 06.02.21
Indian PM 'endorses Trump for 2020 in breach of diplomatic convention'
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump attend the "Howdy, Modi!" rally at NRG Stadium in Houston Sunday.
Backlash against Modi as Indian PM 'endorses Trump for 2020 in breach of diplomatic convention'
Speaking in Texas, Modi repeated to rapturous applause the borrowed Trump campaign slogan: ‘Abki baar Trump sarkar (This time, [a] Trump government)’September 23, 2019
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has been accused of “interfering” in the next US presidential election after he gave a speech in Texas that critics say tacitly endorsed Donald Trump for re-election in 2020.
Mr Modi made the comments as he appeared onstage alongside the US president during a rally in Houston on Sunday, which was attended by more than 50,000 members of the Indian diaspora.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...uston-texas-rally-2020-election-a9116926.html
Biden’s Misstep in India
The president’s foreign-policy and domestic teams have a long-standing difference on pandemic diplomacy.
April 28, 2021
Thomas Wright
On April 16, Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, tweeted at Biden:
Respected @ POTUS, if we are to truly unite in beating this virus, on behalf of the vaccine industry outside the U.S., I humbly request you to lift the embargo of raw material exports out of the U.S. so that vaccine production can ramp up. Your administration has the details.
The situation was not quite as Poonawalla described it. The raw materials he was requesting were largely for the Novavax vaccine, which will not be distributed until September, but the tweet had a major impact on the public discourse. In the week that followed, India’s COVID-19 crisis reached epic proportions. The number of daily cases exceeded 300,000, surpassing the previous record set in the United States, and hospitals reported shortages of oxygen as they tried to care for the growing number of patients.
Many governments offered to help, including India’s geopolitical adversaries China and Pakistan. The Biden administration, which was in constant contact with Indian officials, was strangely silent in public. Last Wednesday, the press asked Ned Price, the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, about U.S. export restrictions. The administration, he said, has “a special responsibility to the American people,” who have “been hit harder than any other country around the world … It is not only in our interest to see Americans vaccinated; it’s in the interests of the rest of the world to see Americans vaccinated.”
Price said only what the administration had been saying for months, but his comments landed very differently at a time when America’s COVID-19 problem was rapidly improving and India’s was careening out of control. The remarks sparked a firestorm of criticism in the Indian press, on social media, and on messaging apps. India’s leadership understood the political constraints on the Biden administration and did not criticize the United States. But as India’s health situation deteriorated, its political leaders lost hold of the narrative. The public understandably had little patience with the political limitations of another government, especially one that seemed well positioned to help. An Indian official would later tell The Wall Street Journal, “What took us by surprise was the slow response by the U.S. It created some misgivings in the public opinion, and that sometimes creates complications.”
Read: Why the world should worry about India
That frustration was compounded by the fact that much of India’s elite had little sympathy for Biden to begin with. This past summer, the Center for Strategic and International Studies conducted a survey of thought leaders from 16 U.S. allies in Europe and Asia. India and Vietnam were the only countries that thought Trump would do a better job than Biden on China. Indians also remember that Trump sent ventilators to India as part of a deal in which President Narendra Modi lifted restrictions on exports of hydroxychloroquine to the United States.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/bidens-misstep-in-india/618722/
President Biden Bans Travel from India Due to Covid-19
nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics
Apr 30, 2021 — U.S. Moves to Restrict Travel From India as Virus Infections and Deaths Surge ...
Modi’s party loses key state election amid pandemic vote
The Washington Post
May 2, 2021
Protesting Farmers Elated Over Modi's Party Defeat In Key State Election
May 3, 2021
BBC Reality Check
Kamala Harris has not publicly backed farmers' protest
A fake screenshot of US vice-president-elect Kamala Harris apparently extending support to the protesting farmers in India has been shared on Facebook.
Potentially-Related
India's Modi to sleep in Trump's bed in Israel
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