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Netanyahu's Budget Deals Are Theft by Any Other Name

A heavy scent of deja vu is in the air. Why? Why does it seem that we heard it all before, and recently: “Someone gave me something? Who, what, when...

24.05.2023 20

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75 Years of Israeli Cruelty Have Not Deterred the Palestinians

I have a question: What’s the difference between a terrorist who murders a mother with her two daughters, and a state that murders – in a single...

18.05.2023 20

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Israel's Reform-mad Antidemocrats Should Focus on the Rabbinate

The heart is truly overwhelmed in the face of the torments of Yariv Levin and his servant Simcha Rothman. With longing eyes, they see their prey...

11.05.2023 80

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What Else Can the ultra-Orthox Demand?

The opening of the Knesset’s summer session probably prompted a bit of confusion among the leadership of the ultra-Orthodox factions. After...

03.05.2023 90

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Moody’s Just Doesn't Get Israel's 'Resilience'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog made major efforts to dissuade the Moody’s credit rating agency from lowering...

19.04.2023 80

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After 2,000 Years, Judaism Has Become Idiotic Again

It took the destruction of two Temples, a great many megalomaniac rebellions, and the almost complete annihilation of all the Jews in the Land of...

16.04.2023 100

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On the Bright Side of Israel’s Judicial Coup

Why create unnecessary difficulties? Following is the academic, encyclopedic, dictionary definition of a dictatorship. Lest I be suspected of relying...

09.04.2023 80

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Three Months of Madness: What a Fully Right-wing Government Has Done to Israel

It has been three months of madness, and nausea, and laughter, and utter astonishment, and dread, and amusement. Dear Lord, where did all this come...

29.03.2023 200

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What Do Religious Parties Have to Do With Democracy?

Actually, we should have outlawed the religious parties a long time ago. That’s what a democratic country should do. After all, religious parties,...

23.03.2023 90

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Glaring Similarities Aside, We Mustn’t Compare Israel to Germany!

We’ll be marking the 90th anniversary of the Enabling Act in two weeks – on March 23 to be exact. This law was passed on the votes of 444...

09.03.2023 100

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Any Struggle for Justice Is Doomed if It Ignores the Israeli Occupation

No. Bibi isn’t the problem. Neither is Levin and his acolytes. Not Ohana, Kisch, Dery, Gotliv, Distal Atbaryan, Gafni, Dichter, Cohen or Smotrich....

01.03.2023 90

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With or Without Judicial Overhaul, Israel Lags Far Behind Even the Worst European States

A concerned Israel is loudly bashing its hands together: “Gevalt,” they are screaming at one another: “If the scheme of Levin and his...

23.02.2023 100

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Netanyahu's 'Revolution' Only Unmasks Israel's Totalitarianism

So, what is the appropriate name for the legislative lunacy of the Netanyahu government? Reform? Revolution? Upheaval? And what will come from all of...

15.02.2023 100

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Israel Has Entered the Stage of Destruction

I was born a few months before the state was. Thus one could say I’ve lived through all its years, from “austerity” to the “test of...

07.02.2023 100

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Get Dery a Probation Officer, Now

Among the evil, criminal, wicked and foolish laws the new government is plotting for us, there is one that is particularly despicable. It’s not the...

28.12.2022 80

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Long Live Netanyahu's Liberal-fascist Party

Conventional wisdom holds that today’s Likud is a classic example of a fascist movement – a party of one-man rule. Absolute uniformity of opinion....

21.12.2022 90

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With Unbridled Power, Israel's Religious Monstrosity Will Cannibalize Itself

Endless discussions, articles and studies have addressed the question of what religion does to the state. But it is fairly difficult to find...

14.12.2022 100

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Avi Maoz, Bad Cop to Bibi’s Good Cop

The country is in the grip of a great excitement. It turns out that in the thorny negotiations to satisfy the lusts of the members of the future...

08.12.2022 100

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In Netanyahu's Israel, Crime Pays Handsomely

Let’s start with a small piece of advice for Ehud Olmert: if you intend to appeal the sentence obliging you to compensate Bibi and his household for...

30.11.2022 90

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The Myth That the Supreme Court Will Protect Us

From the dawn of the occupation the State of Israel nurtured the myth that the Supreme Court will protect us. According to this myth, the existence of...

23.11.2022 80

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