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This Arab Lawmaker Poses a Challenge to Israeli Democrats

Hearings on requests to disqualify Arab Knesset slates and candidates can be counted on during every election cycle. On Wednesday the Central...

Gantz's Party Must Reject Trump's 'Deal of the Century'

For U.S. President Donald Trump, everything is a deal – there are no more proposals, agreements or processes, only deals. That’s also how we got...

A Diversionary Tactic

After Benjamin Netanyahu lied on live television when he said he had no intention of seeking parliamentary immunity from prosecution but then asked...

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Now They’ve Decided to Disqualify Me

In the past 20 years, not a single Israeli election campaign has gone untouched by the delegitimization and political persecution of Arab MKs. In...

Trump's Peace Plan Means Settlements Are Permanent. Democrats, Get Used to It

Those inclined to dismiss the unveiling of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan as solely related to short-term political...

How the Survivors Won and Holocaust Denial, and the Politicians, Lost

Benjamin Netanyahu is not one for expressing gratitude to fellow politicians, unless it’s to Donald Trump and other fellow strongmen. So his tweet...

Netanyahu Wants Trump's Mideast Peace Plan to Fail

From the details published in the media, U.S. Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” seems to be the most favorable approach to Israel ever...

Coming in Winter 2020: An Israeli Dystopia

The first to be arrested was Shai Nitzan. The police came to his home in Jerusalem at 5 A.M., accompanied by television crews, and spoke to him...

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Israel, Beware the True Cost of Trump's 'Peace' Plan

I believe in being honest among friends. That principle is relevant as President Donald Trump prepares to unveil his "Deal of the Century." While...

One Person, One Vote for Israel-Palestine

The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan brings with it good news and bad news. It will put the final nail in the coffin of that walking...

Trump and Giuliani's Crude, Coercive and Conditional 'Love' for Jews

In the fall of 1933, on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, James W. Gerard went out on a limb for the Jews. Adolf Hitler’s Mein...

Immunity Trap in the White House

Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz has accepted U.S. President Donald Trump’s invitation to meet with him at the White House on Monday, separately...

The Zionist Left Has Paved the Way to the Rise of the Extreme Right

I was born in Haifa in 1944. I was four when my father returned home one day with a soft cloth doll in his hand and deep shame in his heart. He...

Israel’s Political Drama Is Actually a Top TV Show

If we imagine the political system as the thyroid gland, which is responsible for producing hormones essential to our cells, we might say that...

Memories and Lessons

The World Holocaust Forum, which gathered at Yad Vashem on Thursday, fulfilled its purpose: the impressive ceremony, attended by some 40 heads of...

A Political Life Without Ideas or Values

Politics as a sphere that is shaped by a struggle of ideas and causes no longer exists. That’s the conclusion emerging from Haaretz editor Aluf...

The Only Formula That Can Save Israel's Channel 13

Israel’s Channel 10 was in mortal danger for most of its existence. I once wrote a piece proposing a formula to rescue it: Turn it into the...

Gantz, What About Avera Mengistu?

The story of Naama Issachar writes itself every day. With just a little more effort, I’ll have a pilot for a Netflix series: A pretty young woman...

Why Trump and Giuliani May Truly Believe They're 'More Jewish' Than Soros or Sanders

In the fall of 1933, on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, James W. Gerard went out on a limb for the Jews. Adolf Hitler’s Mein...

The 'Oman File': Inside the Mossad's Alliance With Muscat, Israel's Window Into Iran

Oman rushed to crown its new leader after the death of Sultan Qaboos Bin Said al Said, its ruler for fifty years. It was a clear sign of the Gulf...

World War 2's Forgotten Genocide

It is the Second World War's "forgotten genocide": Around 500,000 of Europe’s Roma were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during...

To Remember, and Not to Sell

If the reports are true that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends on expressing support for the campaign that Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Holocaust Denial Has Gone Global. And It's All Thanks to Facebook

What is Holocaust denial? The answer to this question may seem obvious to Haaretz readers and to the impressive roster of world leaders gathering...

Netanyahu Exploits the Holocaust to Brutalize the Palestinians

Benjamin Netanyahu did not invent the idea of leveraging the Holocaust for political gain. Yet, like so much else in current Israeli politics, he...

As Descendant of Auschwitz Victims, I've No Interest in the Yad Vashem Laundromat

Yad Vashem will be holding an event on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. The list of those...

Go to Gaza and Cry ‘Never Again’

It’s very important to remember the past; no less important is to be cognizant of the present without shutting one’s eyes. The dozens of statesmen...