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Celerity

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22. Likud
Mon May 25, 2026, 05:48 PM
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http://www.worldlikud.org.il/en/about-us

The Likud story began in 1925 when Russian-born Jewish leader, author and soldier, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, advocated for a revision of Zionism. Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor felt that there was widespread and extensive appeasement of the Zionist Executive of the time towards the British Government and its mandate over Israel. His Revisionist Zionism advocated a new look at Theodor Herzl’s popular Political Zionism.

Jabotinsky and his movement firmly supported the Jewish right to sovereignty over the whole of the land of Israel as had been initially agreed at the 1920 San Remo Conference, as well as the free immigration of all Jews to their homeland.

Likud’s core ideology is to this day inspired by the Revisionist Zionism advocated by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor. It was later on reinforced by Menachem Begin when he led the Herut party and subsequently, post a merger by the right wing Knesset factions, by Likud, meaning “Consolidation”, as it represented the consolidation of the right-wing in Israel.

The World Likud grew out of this enlarged Likud party when it was decided to develop an international wing of the homegrown Israeli party. This new initiative transformed into a worldwide bridge between the Revisionists Zionists from the Jewish Diaspora and its supporters within Israel.


Netanyahu Gives John Fetterman Silver-Plated Pager as Ghoulish Gift

The Israeli prime minister previously gave Donald Trump one too.

https://gizmodo.com/netanyahu-gives-john-fetterman-silver-plated-pager-as-ghoulish-gift-2000578432



Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday. And Bibi’s gift to the senator from Pennsylvania is likely to raise more than a few eyebrows. Fetterman was presented with a silver-plated pager, apparently in reference to the terror attack orchestrated by Israel that targeted thousands of Hezbollah members in Lebanon late last year using pagers rigged with explosives. “This is a silver-plated beeper. The real beeper is like one-tenth the weight. But it changes history,” Netanyahu told Fetterman.


Fetterman’s response to Netanyahu while holding the ghoulish memento was one of tremendous thanks. “When that story broke, I was like, ‘Oh, I love it. I love it.’ And now it’s like, thank you for this,” Fetterman said.

Israel’s terror attack killed at least 42 people, including an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old, and injured about 3,250 more, including 200 critically. Israel built the pagers themselves in a major operation, producing the devices through a manufacturer in Taiwan and selling them to Hezbollah without any indication they were behind the deal. The attack was denounced by experts at the UN as a violation of international law.

“These attacks violate the human right to life, absent any indication that the victims posed an imminent lethal threat to anyone else at the time,” the group of experts said in a statement at the time. “Such attacks require prompt, independent investigation to establish the truth and enable accountability for the crime of murder.”

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For which party? Ocelot II Monday #1
I'm sorry we in PA voted for him, including me mvd Monday #2
I voted for this asshole as well. Dunc Monday #5
He beat Oz. We needed that... lame54 Monday #6
Oh yes. He had to beat Oz mvd Monday #11
oz might be less dangerous as a senator rampartd Monday #13
I get it. His power as a Senator is 1/100 Dave says Monday #16
He's useless to the Rs also, after his term ends. He can't Ars Longa Monday #21
Likud Celerity Monday #22
Mind reader surfered Monday #34
Beat me to it MustLoveBeagles Monday #38
Read it and weep. Or laugh. Whatever works for you. ShazzieB Tuesday #44
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh wait, you're serious! Let me laugh even harder! Initech Monday #3
What kind of drug makes you this totally high and detached from reality? Irish_Dem Monday #4
Certain brain injuries can do that sakabatou Monday #9
There is more to it than that. Irish_Dem Monday #10
Encouraging him with $. wnylib Monday #23
Yep. Irish_Dem Monday #31
Fettermans wife duckworth969 Monday #39
Yes she fits into this situation somehow. Irish_Dem Tuesday #42
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You don't do your job, you can't raise any money, and your entire party hates you" muriel_volestrangler Monday #7
He's not concerned about Dems hating him. wnylib Monday #24
Why would any Dem want a Trump bootlicker as their VP? sakabatou Monday #8
Maybe he'll run as Trump's VP? sop Monday #12
I don't know, he fails the height test. Prof. Toru Tanaka Monday #14
I should have voted to Lamb in the primary. Damn it. debm55 Monday #15
He thinks so? Dear Johnny, think into one hand and shit in the other. 11 Bravo Monday #17
My dog has been saying the same thing. milestogo Monday #18
We would vote for your dog. Dunc Monday #20
For who? JD Vance? choie Monday #19
That would be my guess bucolic_frolic Monday #26
Thus guy is awful. I never want to see or hear Johonny Monday #25
Stick a fork in it. He's done. NM Grins Monday #27
Centrist VP, no thanks! Emile Monday #28
Everyone wants their VPs in the "death is nigh" stage mr715 Monday #29
VP????? Is this news from The Onion? vapor2 Monday #30
I don't think he could stand the riggers of a nationwide campaign underpants Monday #32
Vacuous Putz? Villainous Pinhead? Virtual Prat? flvegan Monday #33
He could be a VP to Krysten Sinema... Gore1FL Monday #35
Maybe for the Republican Party. Nt helpisontheway Monday #36
Maybe the Green Party JustABozoOnThisBus Monday #37
I can see him being a very peculiar pick. nt ImNotGod Monday #40
Oh yeah, the hoodie and shorts for VP. I'd rather Ilsa Tuesday #41
The pick of WHOM, specifically? DFW Tuesday #43
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