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Gideon Levy

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Free the Hostages on Both Sides

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After Gaza, IDF Soldiers Are Allowed to Do Anything. Even Hide in a Palestinian Ambulance

09.01.2025 70

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No Infrastructure Remains in Northern Gaza, for Terrorism or for Life

30.12.2024 50

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The IDF's Own Sickening 'Zone of Interest' in the Heart of Gaza

Here's some good news coming straight from the killing fields: The Israel Defense Forces has built a holiday village on the Gaza coast. Sgt. Yaron...

27.12.2024 50

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From Auschwitz to Gaza, With a Stopover in The Hague

Benjamin Netanyahu will not travel to Poland next month for the main ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death...

25.12.2024 100

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Mired in Bereavement and Disaster, Israel Has Been Blinded

An Israeli professor who has been living in the United States for decades was in Israel this week during one of his frequent visits. He teaches at...

21.12.2024 3

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Even the Former Israeli Army Chief Deserves Some Mercy

06.12.2024 20

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BibiLeaks Suspect Eli Feldstein, the Right's New Joan of Arc

03.12.2024 10

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No One Is Celebrating the Partial End of Another Israeli War Fought in Vain

With minimal opposition and a sense of sourness, bitterness and at times anger, another unnecessary Israeli war in the north came to an end...

29.11.2024 30

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The Phantom Doctor From Gaza

Dr. Adnan al-Bursh was a surgeon, the head of the orthopedics department at Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. He was a charismatic, handsome man who...

24.11.2024 60

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Gideon Levy

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

19.11.2024 70

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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 70

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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...

11.11.2024 100

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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 10

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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 40

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

28.10.2024 10

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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...

14.10.2024 70

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

11.10.2024 8

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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,...

07.10.2024 8

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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 70

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Gideon Levy

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...

29.09.2024 50

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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 30

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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...

20.09.2024 50

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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...

09.09.2024 100

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

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 40

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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...

01.09.2024 6

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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...

26.08.2024 30

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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...

22.08.2024 30

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

19.08.2024 60

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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...

16.08.2024 60

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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 2

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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;...

05.08.2024 10

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

29.07.2024 20

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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 2

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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...

12.07.2024 20

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