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No Israeli should have slept well on Friday night. Our police are storm troopers. Palestinians have long known this, but Israelis now have to...
The relative horror expressed over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh is justified and necessary. It is also belated and self-righteous. Now you’re...
This is what inflammatory discourse looks like: Media outlets and social media are inundated with calls to murder the leader of a political movement...
What do they want from his life? What do the religious and nationalist right want from the flesh and blood of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett? What do...
If the “Anyone But Bibi” camp had any integrity, Ra’anana would have been filled with demonstrators this week; the drums would have thundered on...
The events unfolding over the last few weeks in the occupied territories seem as if they’ve been taken out of the Bible. Everything is immersed in...
All of us, every single Israeli, marched to Homesh the other day. All of us, every single Israeli, marched in the flag parade in Jerusalem on...
Abdul Karim Saadi was waiting for us at our usual meeting place, in the yard of a leather factory outside Tul Karm, a place always reeking of...
Raad Hazem was born on Kaf Tet B’November, 1993 – November 29, the date of the 1947 United Nations vote to partition Mandatory Palestine. He was...
The possibility that the Bennett-Lapid government will fall is not the end of the world. Don’t start with the sighs of despair, pathos and...
Israel has a new national hero and he is an Arab; a dead Arab and a good Arab and his name even sounds Hebrew. With his death, Sgt. 1st Class Amir...
The way of terror is the only way open to the Palestinians to fight for their future. The way of terror is the only way for them to remind Israel, the...
Omer Bar-Lev was not confused. He is also not as disengaged as he is accused of being. On the contrary, he’s proved that he is in touch with...
Benjamin Netanyahu is fading away. Half the nation will rejoice, the other half will mourn, both to excess, but there’s no ignoring that someone...
While Israel tries to maneuver between fear of Russia, closeness to the United States and Europe, and its inherent xenophobia, the country is...
If Israel were to open its gates to refugees from Ukraine like most European countries are doing, it wouldn’t be Israel. Going out of its way to...
Most Russians support this war. The Washington Post just published the results of a survey, according to which 58 percent of Russians support the war...
The lesson from the war in Ukraine that the Israeli right (meaning almost all Israelis) is one: Only a strong Israel. Like the lesson taught on the...
Imagine that Israel is invading the Gaza Strip once more. The usual killing, destruction and ruin. Tens of thousands of civilians flee for their lives...
Israel has no right to criticize Russia. A country that has more than once acted exactly like Russia, going wild, has no right to criticize aggression...
Somewhere over the rainbow, beyond the hills of darkness, another country is hiding, a wonderful country. Like a villa in the jungle, like a...
The photograph is exceptional. There are not many like it. An elderly Palestinian shepherd is sitting on the ground at the entrance to his house,...
I’m ashamed to admit it: I liked listening to Jacob Bardugo on Army Radio. It was spectacular, raw propaganda, and for that reason it was...
Is there any difference still between the center-left and the right? Which of the two is more honest and fair? Take Evyatar, for instance. A...
Who is destroying the rule of law in Israel? After years of hearing a particularly shrill choir scream about the existence of one enemy to the...
As the curses and screeches subside – Amnesty are antisemites, the report is full of lies, the methodology is absurd – one must ask: What,...
The state slipped through the fingers of Razi Barkai. That’s why the veteran Army Radio broadcaster is quitting. In his final broadcast he said...
How many Jews are there in the world? Who counts them and how? Why does it matter so much? Or Kashti reported that Israel will start to do its own...
If I could only meet with the soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda battalion who abused 80-year-old Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad to the point of death, I would...
The ghosts of Tantura shall not let go until the last of the witnesses and the descendants die. The ghosts of Tantura may not let go until the...
It is said that Benjamin Netanyahu incited against the left, and that he is the one who delegitimized it. The incitement against the former prime...
The race to stamp “moral turpitude” on Benjamin Netanyahu’s forehead is the race to remove him from our lives. This is not a legitimate...
They’re the scum of the earth. Anyone who snatches a Palestinian teen, abuses him for hours, beats him and kicks him, ties him up under the car’s...
Chances are increasing that Yair Lapid will be remembered as a better foreign minister than Yisrael Katz. This week, Lapid actually spoke the truth:...
It’s 2022 and there are those on Israel’s Right who still object to speaking with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – he’s a terrorist,...
It’s 2022 and there are those on Israel’s Right who still object to speaking with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – he’s a terrorist,...
Hundreds of thousands of sick animals, whom we coldly refer to as “egg-layers,” are being executed in barbaric ways right now, while we’re...
I now know his name was Moshe. Asaf wrote that he’s dead. But Vered says that isn’t certain. The first person who died of the cold was...
Like mushrooms after a rainstorm they pop up, peeping from their burrows, tearing off their masks, shedding their disguises and coming out of the...
The crime is Homesh, the killing of Yehuda Dimentman is the punishment. Most Israelis see this differently, because this is what they’re told:...
Leave the “violent” settlers alone. Just as you cannot differentiate between legal and illegal settlements because they’re all illegal, you...
The Haaretz editorial for Sunday calls for opening the archives to reveal the complete truth about what happened here in 1948, including all of the...
They are celebrating inside the bunker: A new fence around the Gaza Strip was inaugurated. Fence? A terrifying barrier. All the honored guests of...
Dr. Micah Goodman is a man people love to love. Handsome, eloquent, smart, au courant, a bit religious, a bit settler, sometimes wearing a knitted...
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, too, tried the good way. For 13 years, since the massacre of his daughters in the Gaza Strip, he has traveled the world...
Several facts cannot be disputed: The Palestinians in the territories, especially the rural folk, are a population at grave risk, with no defender....
First we were ashamed, then we were shocked, and we even investigated. Then we denied it and lied. After that we ignored and repressed it, yawned...
Sometimes it seems as if there are no limits to hypocrisy and double standards, that Israelis have a record-breaking lack of self-awareness and the...