Israel's Anti-annexation Warriors Should Simply Surrender

Kahol Lavan’s Benny Gantz faction will not give up their last stronghold. Its leaders will fight it until the last drop of blood (except, of course,...

Ventilators by Cloak-and-dagger

The Mossad is the new Red Cross. Tuesday’s episode of the investigative journalism series “Uvda,” on Mossad operations to bring medical...

Today It's an Empty Park, but What Comes 'After' the Coronavirus?

The sound could be heard every morning when the sun came up: the notes of a saxophone wafting through the tangle of oleander and blooming yellow...

Netanyahu Is the Best There Is for Now. Gantz Must Join Him to Minimize Damage

Benny Gantz joining a government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not a disaster. In fact, it is the only possibility that is left,...

Palestinians Would Die for the Israeli Kind of Lockdown

The heavens have darkened and everything is closing in around us. Only fate, God or the shaper of history are laughing at us from up high, a bitter,...

Bibi and Tibi

There is one step that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can take now that could still change the way he will go down in history. There’s probably...

Yoaz Hendel: The Beautiful Israeli

Yoaz Hendel is the embodiment of the beautiful Israeli. The most beautiful. If it were possible to print a 3-D version of the model of the beautiful...

The Israeli Army Doesn't Have Snipers on the Gaza Border. It Has Hunters

In Israel, Zionism Is a Religion, and It Is Mandatory

The Joint List’s impressive, welcome achievement comes tempered with disappointment: The glass ceiling of Jewish voters was not broken. On the eve...

Election Results: The Tribe Has Spoken. We Must Respect Its Say – and Start a New One

UPDATE: Israel election results: Netanyahu two seats away from majority with 90 percent of votes counted You can be disgusted, you can be fearful,...

Neither Fateful, nor Important: Israel's Third Election Will Decide Little, if Anything

Give the bombastic pathos and drama a rest: The election tomorrow is not fateful, and probably not even important. Like its two predecessors, it too...

This Week's Palestinian Sacrifice, Delivered by an Israeli Bulldozer

What did people on the right wing feel upon seeing the images of an Israeli army bulldozer burrowing into the ground in Gaza and snatching the body of...

The IDF Spirit: These Aren’t Human Beings. They’re Palestinians

We ought to thank the driver of the military tractor who went crazy on the streets of Kfar Qaddum the other day, even give him a citation: He drew an...

Tel Aviv Billboards Exemplify Israeli Fascism

I like reading opinion pieces by Nave Dromi. She’s straight-shooting, genuine, extreme, secular and doesn’t evade or equivocate: pure, distilled...

A Different Germany? Not With Its Israel Policy

On Friday, Germany proved that it’s on a downward trend toward its past. Its decision to be a friend of the Israeli occupation at the International...

Arabs of Israel: Enough Begging

Dear Arabs of Israel: The politicians don’t want you. The time has come for you to understand this and draw the obvious conclusion. Your...

Arabs of Israel: Enough Begging

Dear Arabs of Israel: The politicians don’t want you. The time has come for you to understand this and draw the obvious conclusion. Your...

The IDF Spokesman Announces: Continue to Shoot Palestinian Children

Israeli soldiers shoot children. Sometimes they wound them and sometimes they kill them. Sometimes the children wind up brain dead, sometimes...

Europe Kowtows to Israeli Apartheid

Europe got itself into a bit of a mess – and the new EU foreign policy chief got tossed under the bus. Josep Borrell only dared to warn Israel...

Benny Gantz, His New Adviser and the Blood on Their Hands

The flight to Washington with the connection in Zurich surprised people. Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz as a regular guy. The fact that his new...

Trump Declared the Third Nakba

In a flimsy hospital gown, injured, barefoot and confused, without food or water, with a catheter attached and wearing a diaper, Gaza resident Omar...

The Third Nakba

In a flimsy hospital gown, injured, barefoot and confused, without food or water, with a catheter attached and wearing a diaper, Gaza resident Omar...

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...

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...

Religious Zionism? The Secular Zionist Left Is the Mother of the Occupation

My Haaretz colleague Uri Misgav corrected the novelist Haim Be’er, who called religious Zionism a “cancerous growth.” Misgav said it wasn’t...

No #MeToo for These Palestinian Women Imprisoned in Israel

They’re not women, they’re “terrorists,” so no one cares when they suffer abuse. At a time when any sexist remark to a woman can lead to a...

For Israelis, There Is No World Beyond Their Borders, and They Don't Need BBC World News

Yaakov Ahimeir’s weekly international news show, “Ro’im Olam,” was insubstantial and often infuriating. Despite that, I watched it religiously...

Brave, Inspiring Protesters Are True Israeli Patriots

In the courtroom in Paralimni, Cyprus, and in the magistrate’s court in Jerusalem, brave and inspiring expressions of protest were made on Monday...

Biden Is Against Soleimani's Assassination, While Gantz Applauds It

There are very few things in America today that inspire jealousy. Here’s one of them: The immediate harsh criticism by leaders of the Democratic...

Happy New Year, Gaza

That’s how it goes when you’re having fun. Time flies. Eight years ago, in 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled “Gaza in 2020: A...

Israel’s Suicidal Left

The Israeli left is in a frenzy, a fatal frenzy – opinion pieces, petitions, manifestos and advertisements. “The left either unites or it commits...

Israeli Patriots and Justice Seekers Should Look to the Hague With Hope

Now it’s a double header. In a combination of events, not entirely coincidental, Israel and its prime minister are both accused of crimes, and both...

Attack on State Prosecutor Appointment Exposes the Real Fear of Israel's 'Old Elite'

In the end, the names say something: Mendelblit, Hershkowitz, Kremnitzer, Nitzan, Lemberger and Zilber vs. Ohana, Bitan and Amsalem. A kind of...

Life After Netanyahu

Someday in the not-too-distant future it’s going to happen: Benjamin Netanyahu will no longer be prime minister. The sun will rise in the east and...

Our Hit Men

Israel loves to revel in its bloody memories – how we killed, how we eliminated, how we murdered, what heroes we were. Every so often another...

From Now On, Every Palestinian Is an anti-Semite

The plague is spreading. Under cover of the (just) war against anti-Semitism, Europe and the United States silence every voice daring to criticize...

Winning Over Foreign Dignitaries by Getting Them Drunk on the Holocaust

It’s happening on Sunday. Twenty-five legislators from around the world will be coming on a visit to Israel as guests of the Israel Allies...

Fear Not, Israel, the State Has Been Saved

The political battle in Israel has gone from the grotesque phase to the psychotic. It began with criminal suspicions against Benjamin Netanyahu and a...

The Contract on Corbyn

The Jewish establishment in Britain and the Israeli propaganda machine have taken out a contract on the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy...

Yad Vashem Doesn't Have the Courage to Be a Global Beacon of Conscience

For years, Barry Lando was a senior producer for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” working alongside the legendary Mike Wallace. Lando, an author who splits...

New U.S. Stance on Israeli Settlements Is Akin to ‘Thou Shalt Murder’

Donald Trump is turning out to be one of Israel’s most dangerous foes; he’s doing everything possible to corrupt it, deepen its rot and make it...

No One in the Israel Knew They Were Committing a Massacre, and They Didn't Care

The bomber pilot didn’t know. His commanders who gave him the orders also didn’t know. The defense minister and the commander in chief didn’t...

Killing Islamic Jihad Leader Got Israel Nothing. So Why Do It?

Once again the sacrosanct unity has come. Once again we are one people, without opposition or public debate, a parade of yes men and cheerleaders in...

Only a Jew Can Be an Israeli

There’s no such thing as non-Jewish Israelis; Israel will do everything so there never will be. There are nonevangelical Americans, non-Catholic...

Deport Me, Too

If Omar Shakir deserves to be deported, then so do I and others like me. Shakir is being expelled for his views. But his views are my views exactly,...

Deport Me, Too

If Omar Shakir deserves to be deported, then so do I and others like me. Shakir is being expelled for his views. But his views are my views exactly,...

Gantz, the Perfect Heir to Rabin

Benny Gantz was anointed the heir of Yitzhak Rabin on Saturday; no one is a more natural heir. The nagging of the Zionist left to let their leaders...

A Sad 70th Birthday for Netanyahu

Even at the height of the tongue-lashings of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the justified ones and the exaggerated ones, sometimes heart-rending...

The Marble Slab of the Occupation

Islam Abu Hamid is neither a “murderer” nor a “terrorist.” He is a violent adversary of the occupation, a member of a family whose sons fight...

An Efficient Inspector

Dayan Somekh works as an inspector for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority’s investigations division, whose offices are located on Am Ve’olamo...