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Arieh Kovler

Arieh Kovler

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The leak that’s haunting Netanyahu’s government

Early September, days after the gruesome discovery of six murdered Israeli hostages in a tunnel in Gaza, a dramatic scoop appeared in Bild. The...

28.11.2024 10

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Peace in Lebanon?

If the leaks and briefings are to be believed, Israel is getting ready to end its war in Lebanon. With the US pushing hard, and after a successful...

01.11.2024 10

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Why Israel didn’t hit Iran where it would really hurt

In Christian countries, it’s typical to put things off until ‘after Christmas’ when the new year begins. In Israel, the equivalent is ‘after...

27.10.2024 30

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Lebanon invasion / Can Israel ‘win’ its war against Hezbollah?

Israelis awoke today to the unsurprising news that the IDF had crossed the border into Lebanon. The incursions, which had been expected for days and...

01.10.2024 20

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Israel wants a war with Lebanon

The war that neither side wanted began this week in earnest. After last week’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies reportedly injured 1,500 members...

26.09.2024 7

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

The Hezbollah pager bomb plot has Israel’s fingerprints all over it

At the end of the 2014 film Kingsman: the Secret Service, the plucky spy hero is in trouble deep in an enemy base. Suddenly his tech wizard figures...

18.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

America’s Russian influence media scandal is unlikely to be the last

Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin and Lauren Southern aren’t household names, but they each have enormous, dedicated followings online. Their...

07.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Netanyahu’s speech to Congress won’t achieve much

Nearly ten months after Israel’s worst day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made history far away in Washington DC when he became the first world...

25.07.2024 6

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Why Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t want to serve

In the middle of a war, Israel’s government is wobbling. Not because of the policy failures that led to the country’s worst disaster ever when...

27.06.2024 8

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Israel / Netanyahu’s strategy in Rafah isn’t working

On 7 April, six months after the October massacres in southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the public that the country was just...

29.05.2024 20

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Why Biden’s plan to sanction an IDF battalion could backfire

The Biden administration is planning to announce sanctions against a part of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). On the one hand, this would be the...

22.04.2024 10

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

Shadow war / Netanyahu can’t ignore the scale of Iran’s attack

Today was supposed to be the day we sent our kids back to nursery. For two weeks, my toddler and baby have been home with a nasty stomach bug that...

14.04.2024 30

The Spectator

Arieh Kovler

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