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Few Have Heard of Baby Mohammed. Fewer Will Hear About His Killers

By the age of two and a half, children can already speak a little. They aren’t weaned yet. At two and a half, they still need a hand when navigating...

05.06.2023 60

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Gideon Levy

At 70, No One Suspects Me of Being a Shin Bet Agent

When my grandfather turned 70, his friends celebrated his birthday. In the living room of the small apartment on Rosenbaum Street in Tel Aviv, which...

04.06.2023 20

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Gideon Levy

Only Two Options Remain for Israel: Another Nakba or One State for Two Peoples

One of the greater achievements Benjamin Netanyahu can chalk up to his credit is the final removal of a two-state solution from the table. Moreover,...

29.05.2023 90

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Gideon Levy

Israel's Liberal Camp Will Pay for Its Hatred of the Haredim

Displays of hatred toward the ultra-Orthodox have increased lately to an unprecedented level. As someone who has sympathetic feelings toward them,...

28.05.2023 10

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Gideon Levy

Imagine if Israel's Pro-democracy Movement Faced Off the Flag March Bullies

The Kaplan Street protest should have come to Jerusalem Thursday, to Hagai Street. It’s hard to comprehend that a movement to save democracy was...

22.05.2023 70

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Gideon Levy

We Were Israel's Future

We were the future, to borrow the title of a book by Yael Neeman. But now it’s behind us. Tuesday we gathered once again on the banks of the Yarkon...

19.05.2023 10

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Gideon Levy

Do Israelis Really Want to Go on Living Like This?

Do you really want to go on living like this? Living by the sword, war after war, one more unnecessary than the one before, all of them wars of...

15.05.2023 90

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Gideon Levy

I Was Wrong About Netanyahu's Restraint

11.05.2023 60

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Gideon Levy

May I Praise Netanyahu?

Amid the horror and destruction this government has inflicted on us; amid the horror and destruction Benjamin Netanyahu has inflicted on us, and on...

08.05.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

The Shin Bet and Israeli Prison Service Wanted Khader Adnan to Die

04.05.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israelis 'Have No Other Country'?

The national whine du jour is “I have no other country.” The French have another country, as do the Swedes, Germans, Congolese and Indians. Only...

01.05.2023 80

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Gideon Levy

There Is No Israeli Independence Day Without the Palestinian Nakba

This is the essence of the Israeli zeitgeist: first a frenzied wallowing in the cult of mourning and a no less frenzied worshiping of death and the...

28.04.2023 80

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Gideon Levy

Who Israelis Must Also Remember on Memorial Day

May the people of Israel remember its sons and daughters, the faithful and the brave, who sacrificed their lives in the war for the rebirth of Israel,...

24.04.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israel's Independence Day Reality Show

Since MK Tally Gotliv burst into our lives, Minister Miri Regev has become a sort of British aristocrat compared to her heir – in royal mannerisms,...

20.04.2023 80

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Gideon Levy

Joseph’s Tomb Is Israel’s Future

Joseph’s Tomb is Israel’s tomb. This bizarre site in the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus is the new Mini Israel. If the original park, near...

17.04.2023 90

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What Awaits Israel After the Protests? Gantzism

At the end of the great protest, Benny Gantz will be elected prime minister and it will rightly be called a grand, fateful, perhaps even historic...

13.04.2023 80

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Gideon Levy

Israel Didn’t Want Quiet

Israel didn’t want quiet, even for a moment. The agitators’ motives varied but they shared the same goal: fanning, igniting and blowing things up....

10.04.2023 100

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Who Cares if Palestinians Are Dead or Alive?

A family is informed that their son has fallen in battle. Another family, from the same community, is informed that their son has been wounded and...

03.04.2023 200

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The Red Line of Israeli Society Is the Line of Death

Death was one of the threats waiting in ambush for the judicial coup. It could contain anything, but not the threats of the bereaved families and the...

31.03.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Who Does Israel Really Belong To?

At dawn Saturday, a group of Eritrean workers laid sod alongside a path in Ramat Aviv to Yarkon Park between the Yitzhak Rabin Center, the...

27.03.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israelis Know That True Democracy Will Spell the End of Zionism

The greatest threat facing Israel is the democratic threat. There is no greater danger to the regime in Israel than its turning into a democracy....

26.03.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

Only Netanyahu Can End the Chaos

He is still here, much to the chagrin of many, and he is still a key figure, despite the signs of weakening. Benjamin Netanyahu is the only one who...

21.03.2023 100

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Kahane's Disciples Are Living the Israeli Right's Dream

It’s impossible not to envy the right for its forward charge. Here’s a dream: The center-left wins the next election and forms a government that...

17.03.2023 90

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Gideon Levy

The Occupation Has Defeated the State of Israel

In a single moment Thursday evening, everything came together into one image. An armed man began firing at passersby on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv,...

13.03.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

The Insidious Militarization of Israel's Pro-democracy Protest

Moshe Ya’alon is now one of the leaders of the democratic protest movement in Israel. In a moment of very comic relief, he appeared two days ago on...

12.03.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Threats to Jewish Democracy Woke Up Israel’s Center-Left. It’s Better Late Than Never

One can’t help but be impressed by the protest movement. It’s powerful, effective, restrained, creative, sweeping. Kudos to the organizers and the...

06.03.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Our Hearts Are With the Survivors of the Hawara Pogrom

When you stand on Hawara’s main street, now under a sort of curfew – the settler thugs pass by, stopping only to provoke the residents, and the...

05.03.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

Why Israel's Top Military Officials Suddenly Support Conscientious Objection

Amos Harel and Yaniv Kubovich reported Friday in Haaretz that talk among Israel Air Force reserve pilots of refusing to comply with call-up orders or...

27.02.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Netanyahu's Judicial Coup Is the BDS Movement’s Dream

The BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement’s dream is rapidly materializing. A key manager in one of the country’s investment firms told...

24.02.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

Mutiny on the Titanic

The mutiny on the Titanic is surprising, impressive and powerful. The passengers who want to impose new rules heralding the beginning of a new regime...

20.02.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

The Disgraceful Death of Harun Abu Aram

It was one of the most horrible sights I’d encountered under the Israeli occupation. On the floor of a dim cave lay a good-looking young man, his...

17.02.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

The IDF Rescues Turkey but Razes the West Bank

The eyes water with emotion, the heart swells with pride: Israel Defense Forces soldiers recovered the bodies of two Jews who were killed in Antakya....

14.02.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

The IDF Rescues Turkey but Razes the West Bank

The eyes water with emotion, the heart swells with pride: Israel Defense Forces soldiers recovered the bodies of two Jews who were killed in Antakya....

12.02.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israel's Protest Is Not About Democracy. It's a Class War

In the end it’s a class war. The fight for democracy serves as a backdrop, a respectable cloak in terms of principle and ideology. But the real...

10.02.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

May the anti-Netanyahu Protests Succeed. And Then What Happens to the Palestinians?

The fury is understandable, the anxiety justified. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the concern is not overblown, that the objective of the...

07.02.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israel's 'Model' Female Soldier

Orna Barbivai is a reserve IDF general, a former minister of economy and the second-ranking member of Yesh Atid. In a party in which only one person...

02.02.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israel’s Military Leaders Fueled a New Wave of Terror Attacks, and They Knew It

What were you thinking? That the killing of 146 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2022, according to B’Tselem, most of them noncombatants, would be...

30.01.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Israel’s Military Leaders Fueled a New Wave of Terror Attacks, and They Knew It

What were you thinking? That the killing of 146 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2022, according to B’Tselem, most of them noncombatants, would be...

30.01.2023 300

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Gideon Levy

Hiding Israel's Atrocities Under the Bridge

Under the bridge on the road between Ein Yabrud and Silwad in the West Bank an atrocity occurred. Under that bridge, last week an IDF soldier shot an...

27.01.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Zionist Protesters in Tel Aviv Forgot Their Palestinian Neighbors

Once again I did not go to Habima Square, or to Kaplan Street, to join the demonstrations. My legs did not carry me there and my heart kept me from...

23.01.2023 200

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Gideon Levy

The Dirge for Dery

Arye Dery is the greatest hope that failed in Israeli politics, where the competition for failed hope is tough and the list of candidates long. Now,...

20.01.2023 90

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Gideon Levy

A Hostile Take Over of a Hostile Institution

The new justice minister, with the backing of the prime minister, is carrying out a hostile takeover of the Supreme Court. The uproar that this has...

16.01.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Warmth and Courage in the Jenin Refugee Camp

In the Jenin refugee camp, I saw many beautiful things. Not books of poetry by Rachel or by Natan Alterman, as the narrator of a Naomi Shemer song...

12.01.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

For the First Time in 40 Years, Karim Younis Is Truly Free

Welcome, Karim Younis, ahlan wa sahlan. I was so happy for your release from prison, like any decent person who saw the moment you returned home after...

08.01.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

What the Left Must Learn From Netanyahu's Revolutionary, Right-wing Government

Israel’s center-left can continue to wallow in self-pity, blaming the entire world for its downfall – with an emphasis on Arab voters, as if they...

06.01.2023 100

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Gideon Levy

Defending Israel Frey Isn't Enough

The wave of identification with ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey is heartwarming, even if it barely extends beyond the left. A journalist...

01.01.2023 90

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Gideon Levy

A Shtreimel in the Security Cabinet!

Among the many scare tactics and assaults on the government-to-be – most of them justified – is one that is unacceptable and dangerous. The...

27.12.2022 100

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Gideon Levy

IDF Spokesman as Martyr

How do you whitewash institutions and organizations that betray their duty, or are openly or covertly partner to the occupation? It’s horrifically...

23.12.2022 100

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Gideon Levy

And if the 16-year-old Girl Shot Dead in Jenin Had Been a Boy?

What if Jana Zakarneh had been a boy? Jana was a 16-year-old who had had a white cat named Lulu, and most probably dreams, too. She had recently been...

16.12.2022 100

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Gideon Levy

Netanyahu's Far-right Gov't Will Usher in the End of Israeli Apartheid

Alongside all the apocalyptic descriptions – some of them surely justified – of what is in store for Israel after the new government is sworn in,...

12.12.2022 100

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