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The New Zionist Ideal: A Generation of Israelis Devoid of Shame Over the Gaza War

Yair Weigler, an educator and CEO of an organization called "Teachers for Change," has just returned from a lengthy stint in the reserves.

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Trump's 'pro-Israel' Appointees Are the Worst of Our Enemies

Tragedies are befalling Israel one after the other. The next impending one will occur on January 20, when Donald Trump is sworn in as president. If...

15.11.2024 100

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The Amsterdam Attack Shows Israelis' Denial of the Reality They Created

An ugly, criminal pogrom against Israeli soccer fans took place in Amsterdam on Thursday. Similar pogroms, carried out by settlers, take place almost...

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Like Kamala Harris, Israel's Opposition Is Charming, Decent - and Terrifyingly Hollow

Donald Trump's victory proved in the United States what we have long known here in Israel: When the liberals cannot offer an alternative, the...

07.11.2024 40

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Israelis Shouldn't Cry Over a Violent Settler's Death

When Bezalel Smotrich cries, one can only respond with a bitter laugh. When Uriah Ben-Natan weeps on the grave of his brother Shuvael and eulogizes...

01.11.2024 60

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Israel's Retaliation on Iran Was a Rare Moment of Reason and Restraint

Here is some good news, for a change. Israel acted on Saturday with commendable rationality and restraint.

28.10.2024 50

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Hubris Is Back: Israel's Unchecked Arrogance Is a Recipe for Disaster

The Israeli hubris is back, big time. Who would have believed that a year after October 7 it would return, and at such a scale. After we defeated...

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Why Is It That We 'Must' Respond to the Iranian Attack?

There are a few axioms in Israel that cannot be challenged. One of the worst has now come to the fore: We must respond to the Iranian missile attack....

11.10.2024 60

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Israelis Must Get Up From the Yearlong Shiva for October 7

October 7, 2023 has passed; October 7, 2024 will pass on Monday. A year ago, this day seeded disasters the scale of which Israel has never known, and...

07.10.2024 30

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Israel's Barbaric Glee Over Nasrallah's Assassination Is a New Low for Israeli Society

A Channel 13 News reporter distributed chocolate to passersby in the city of Carmiel Saturday morning, on live television. A mass-media journalist,...

30.09.2024 100

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Israel Is About to Embark on Yet Another Unavoidable 'War of Choice'

Israel's wars of choice follow a regular pattern; it's incredible how regular it is. They always begin with the declaration that Israel doesn't want...

29.09.2024 70

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Israel's Great Chance: Another War

After exhausting the great opportunity in Gaza, Israel is turning to exhausting the next great opportunity, a war in Lebanon. When it comes to war,...

23.09.2024 60

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'Hollywood' Pager Attack Sent a Clear Message: Israel Wants Another Redundant War

We now also have it in writing, in a thousand exploding copies: Israel wants a war, a big one. There is no other way of understanding the glittering...

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Israeli Society Has Truly Fallen to Cruelty, Violence and Apathy. Just Look at Us

On Friday, 11 funerals were held in the Jenin refugee camp. Eight of the deceased were camp residents who were killed by the Israeli army; three died...

09.09.2024 100

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When Six Israelis Were Mourned, Over 40,000 Palestinians Were Ignored

Israel mourns the six hostages who were killed. The world also mourns them. Their names, their pictures, their life stories and their families led...

06.09.2024 100

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As Israel's Boot Mercilessly Presses Down on West Bank's Neck, of Course There's Terror

Surprise, surprise! Violent Palestinian resistance in the West Bank is raising its head. The human monsters have woken up from their slumber and...

02.09.2024 70

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Israel Holds a Ceremony for a War That Hasn't Ended - Instead of Ending It

Every morning at 8 A.M., the elementary school I attended would hold roll call in the courtyard, and one of the students, sometimes me, would go the...

01.09.2024 20

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It's Ideology That Drives Netanyahu, Not Just Power

Maybe we haven't sufficiently denigrated his lifestyle; in any event, he came by all the denigration honestly. But take note that his many detractors...

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Biden's Capitulation to Netanyahu Is a Betrayal of His Values

Only a few hours separated Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in Jerusalem and the moving, impressive speech by the U.S. president at the...

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Why Are Israelis Shocked by a West Bank Settler Riot but Blind to a Massacre in Gaza?

How easy it is to shock Israelis over rioting settlers. That's not us, we had nothing to do with it. They're not even part of Israel. They are the...

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In Gaza, Israel's Dehumanization of the Palestinians Has Reached a New Height

The Israel Defense Forces has decided to downsize the Oketz unit, Unit 7142, ahead of its cancellation. The unit for dogs and their trainers has been...

16.08.2024 100

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Welcome to Hell: B'Tselem's Ignored Abuse Report Shows Israel's True Face

The B'Tselem report published this week, "Welcome to Hell," isn't only a report about what's happening in Israel's prison facilities; it's a report...

09.08.2024 20

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Remember How We Cheered When Israel Killed a Hamas Chief and Beat Turkey in the Olympics

It was the end of a joyous week, the likes of which we haven't seen in ten months. On Wednesday, we took down Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran; on...

05.08.2024 60

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Shame on the U.S. Senators and Congress Members Who Cheered Netanyahu

Shame on you, senators and congressmen. Last week, you held one of the most shameful sessions ever held on Capitol Hill. You cheered a politician who...

29.07.2024 60

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How Many Dead Children in Gaza Is Mohammed Deif Worth?

The trumpets of victory sounded immediately. The dust did not yet settle over the mangled tents of the displaced in Mawasi before the studios began...

14.07.2024 40

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Israel's Top Commander in the West Bank Is No 'Moralist.' He's Just Another Hypocrite

Like everything in the Israeli military, generals can be divided into three groups. The largest is that of faceless individuals whose names, much less...

12.07.2024 40

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Israel Has No Right to Criticize Roger Waters and Other Deniers of Hamas' Oct 7 Atrocities

Israel is aghast over Roger Waters. Israel is aghast at the October 7 deniers. There is nothing worse today in the eyes of Israelis than to deny the...

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The Reaction to a Gazan Doctor's Release Reveals the Troubling State of Israeli Society

Anyone who wants to learn what's happened to Israelis since October 7 is advised to look at the release from prison of Al-Shifa Hospital's director....

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A Night at the Pharmacy in the West Bank City of Jenin

Evening fell on the now half-ruined Jenin refugee camp, and the group of men met, as usual, at the camp's pharmacy, El Carmel. There were around 10 of...

01.07.2024 20

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Just Smile and Call It a Victory. What Matters Is Getting Out of Gaza

23.06.2024 20

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Photos of Palestinians Are Missing From Tel Aviv's Hostage Square

A picture is missing from the Tel Aviv plaza known as Hostages Square. A few dozen images are also missing from the nearby Kaplan Street...

21.06.2024 50

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Why Did Israel Conceal Hundreds of Gazans' Deaths in 'Perfect' Hostage Rescue Operation?

13.06.2024 30

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The Solution to Israel's Entanglement in the North Lies in Ending the War in Gaza

06.06.2024 10

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At Last, Justice. But Will Israelis Also Start Waking Up?

At last, justice; the very earliest signs of the beginning of a late, partial justice, yet still a measure of justice. There is no joy in your prime...

23.05.2024 100

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What About the Palestinian Hostages?

Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next,...

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Israeli Media Has Tears Only for Israeli Children

Eric Clapton has been performing in recent months with a guitar painted black, white, green and red, the colors of the Palestinian flag.

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I Shall Stand at Attention to Remember Them All – Israelis and Palestinians

I shall remember them all Monday. I shall remember Pvt. Gideon Bachrach, after whom I am named. I will stand at attention during the Memorial Day...

15.05.2024 100

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'Are You Jewish?' the Israeli Soldier Asked the Journalist

When photographer Alex Levac wanted to get out of the car for a moment, the soldier asked him: "Are you Jewish?"

11.05.2024 100

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Let Israel's Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes

All decent Israelis must ask themselves the following questions: Is their country committing war crimes in Gaza? If so, how should they be stopped?...

06.05.2024 100

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Israeli Universities Cannot Teach U.S. Jews the First Thing About Human Rights and Liberty

Here's another record for hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness: Israel's university presidents published a letter saying they are troubled by the...

05.05.2024 100

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This Palestinian-Israeli TV Correspondent Represents Hope for Israel's Future

Almost any attempt to find a sliver of hope in these darkest of dark times is doomed to failure. Having said that, here is a faint ray of light on the...

28.04.2024 60

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More Sanctions on Israeli Army Battalions in the West Bank? I Wish

It was a cold winter night, a few minutes after 3 A.M., but Omar Abdelmajeed As'ad was driving home. Since his return 11 years earlier from a...

26.04.2024 70

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Israel's Right-wing Can Never Seem to Get Enough Death and Destruction

Dardaleh! is Israel's new battle cry. Dardaleh – Hebrew slang for a weak kick in soccer – is the latest expression of the right's unquenchable...

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In Calling for Strike on Iran, Gantz Channeled an Unlikely Peace Prize Laureate

Benny Gantz's attendance at Naomi Polani's funeral on Tuesday brought up sweet, pleasant memories of days long gone, before all the troubles began.

18.04.2024 50

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If Iran Attacks Israel, the Blame Lies on Israel's Irresponsible Decision-makers

Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi was killed April 1 in a strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Two weeks later, Israel is anxiously bracing for what's...

17.04.2024 100

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No Victory Awaits Israel in Rafah. Only More Death and Destruction

The right wants more, more, more. So do many Israelis who don't consider themselves right-wingers. All the dead, disabled, displaced and starving...

11.04.2024 70

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In Six Months in Gaza, Israel's Worst-ever War Achieved Nothing but Death and Destruction

Sunday is the six-month anniversary, and it seems this won't be the war's last six-month milestone; no one in Israel has any idea how to end the worst...

08.04.2024 90

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For Israel, Foreign Aid Workers' Blood Is Thicker Than Palestinians'

03.04.2024 40

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The Israeli Left Should Not Preach Morality to B'Tselem

We would all know a great deal less about the occupation were it not for B'Tselem. It wouldn't matter to most Israelis and Israeli media outlets; they...

02.04.2024 50

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We Need to Admit It: Israel Wants the War in Gaza

Israel wants war. More and more war, as much as possible, and perhaps even more. Gone are the days of our childhood, when they told us Israel wants...

28.03.2024 30

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