Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman:

Zionist Entity Headed for ‘Third Temple Destruction’

Date: 06 March 2023 - 22:04

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TEL AVIV (Dispatches) –

Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman has attacked Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, warning that he is leading the illegal entity to “a Third Temple destruction.”

The destruction of the Temple is a term that refers to two historical events in Jewish history in which the Temple was destroyed. The first Temple (Solomon’s Temple) was destroyed in 586 BC by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, while the second Temple (Herod’s Temple) was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70 AD.

According to Jewish sources, after the destruction of the First Temple, the Jews were exiled to Babylon and after the destruction of the Second Temple, the work of the priests ceased, and the Jews were dispersed.

Lieberman said the new cabinet “has existed for two months, and the U.S. has not yet invited the prime minister or foreign minister to visit Washington. This is a political failure, and I do not remember this happening before.”

The statements by Lieberman, who previously held several ministerial positions, including ministers of war and finance, were made amid a sharp division in Occupied Palestine over a plan that Netanyahu and the ruling coalition under his leadership are seeking to implement and that will greatly limit the power of the judiciary in favor of the executive and legislative branches.

On Saturday evening more than 250,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv and various parts of the occupied territories to protest the plan currently put before the Knesset for a vote.

Food Insecurity

A new report has revealed that more than one million Zionists, including some 665,000 children,

are living with food insecurity, amid serious concerns by Israeli economists that a financial meltdown could occur more “powerfully and faster” than they had originally forecast.

According to the Israel’s Hebrew-language Channel 14, the figure translates to more than 530,000 families and highlights that over 976,000 adults are suffering from food insecurity as well.

The findings were announced during a recent labor, welfare and health committee of the Knesset, where its member Israel Eichler called for quicker distribution of food baskets among needy families throughout the occupied territories.

He added that Zionist institutions should pay for at least half of the cost of the basic household food baskets.

Earlier this year, a report on the food security situation in Occupied Palestine issued by the so-called national insurance institute of Israel showed that 522,000 families in the occupied territories live in a state of food insecurity, including 265,000 families living in a state of severe food insecurity.

The report noted that the survey included in the report was conducted in the first half of the year 2021, and before the cessation of unemployment benefits that were granted to most of the unemployed individuals and workers who were put on unpaid leave due to the global pandemic in 2020.

It stated that “the data indicate that in 2021, the year in which corona health and economic crisis that began in March 2020 continued, the level of food security of the population increased.”

The report showed that the level of food security in Arab society increased from 56.8 percent in 2016 to 57.6 percent in 2021, which means that 42.4 percent of Arab families are experiencing food insecurity. This is three times higher than the general rate. In contrast, approximately 11 percent of Jews live in food insecurity.

Recent weeks have seen the Israeli shekel value drop to a three-year low against the dollar, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange underperform and leading companies pulling their money from Israeli accounts.

On Saturday night, hundreds of thousands of protesters took part in demonstrations in Tel Aviv and other occupied cities for the ninth straight week to reject a plan to overhaul Israel’s court system.

The legislation that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing and extremist allies hope to pass would limit the supreme court’s powers to rule against the legislature and the executive, while giving legislators decisive powers in appointing judges.

On March 1, American credit rating agency Fitch Ratings Inc. warned that the planned judicial changes could have a “negative impact” on Israel’s credit profile.

Fitch cautioned that the judicial overhaul could weaken institutional checks, leading to “worse policy outcomes or sustained negative investor sentiment.”