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Nehemia Shtrasler

Nehemia Shtrasler

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This Turncoat Israeli Lawmaker Is a Lackey Whose Price Is Known: A Ministerial Post

Transportation Minister Miri Regev succeeded in defining him precisely. In July 2021, when lawmaker Zeev Elkin entered the Knesset, she addressed him...

yesterday 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel Katz's Declarations of Victory Over Hamas and Hezbollah Couldn't Be More False

Herod didn't need any preparation period. After all, he's a great general who knows all. After only three weeks on the job, Israel Katz, who once...

monday 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Has Paid No Price for Rabin's Murder. He Has Profited From It

Tuesday, the 12th day of the Jewish month of Cheshvan, will mark the 29th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Three official ceremonies...

13.11.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

In Firing Gallant, Netanyahu Caved to the ultra-Orthodox Ultimatum

On Tuesday evening at 8 P.M. came a harsh blow: Israel's prime minister had fired the country's defense minister in the middle of a war on seven...

10.11.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Megalomaniacal Smotrich Doesn't Know What It Means to Be Israel's Finance Minister

This week, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich finally submitted his economic plan for 2025, a long series of tax increases and freezes on wages and...

21.10.2024 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel Won't Forgive Netanyahu, Even on Yom Kippur

Atonement. Yom Kippur is a day of forgiveness and absolution. In order to atone for the sins between man and God, it is enough to confess to them and...

13.10.2024 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu, the Champion of Procrastinators, Hesitated on Nasrallah's Killing as Well

The successful assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has restored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's confidence. He suddenly seems more...

02.10.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

War Is Bad for Israel's Economy. Arrogant, Hedonistic Smotrich Is Making It Worse

Are we headed for a large-scale war with Hezbollah? That's not clear. But one thing is clear: We must maintain a large, expensive army if we want to...

22.09.2024 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Is Unfit to Serve as Israel's Leader. Cognitively, Morally and Strategically

He's lost it. The prolonged pressure put on him from every direction, including a real threat to indict him in The Hague, has had its effect and he's...

15.09.2024 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Gantz and Eisenkot Take on Netanyahu, but It's Hard to Beat a Crook

It was a battle that was hard to win, a battle between a duplicitous crook and two honest people, between an inveterate liar and two serious men...

09.09.2024 60

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Smotrich, Israel's Little Napoleon, Is Detached From Reality

03.09.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Let This Israeli Hostage's Mother Speak

Avri Gilad and Yair Cherki looked shocked. For months they built an image of sane centrists promoting moderate and non-inflammatory dialogue, who...

27.08.2024 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Battered Credit Rating Is a Vote of No Confidence in the Gov't, Not the Economy

Benjamin Netanyahu did not disappoint. He was quick to blame the war. In his words, "The Israeli economy is strong and is functioning well," and...

19.08.2024 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Lied to Time Magazine, Too

Don't think he doesn't care. In fact, in an interview last week in Time magazine, when pressed by his interviewer in connection with the October 7...

14.08.2024 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Talks Like a Lion, but Cowers Like a Rabbit

The hostages don't interest him, the deserted, bombarded north doesn't move him, even the 1,623 people murdered or killed in the war for which he is...

07.08.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu's Outdated, Profligate Plane Has to Go

On Saturday night, Benjamin Netanyahu will board Wing of Zion and make his way back to Israel. Does he know what happened to the Polish president 14...

28.07.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu's Cowardly Policy of Containment Failed to Deter the Houthis

It happened on October 19, 2023, during the second week of the Netanyahu war. The Houthis made a surprise launch of four cruise missiles and a number...

25.07.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Far-right Finance Minister Blames Ben-Gurion for the Economic Crisis

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's colossal failure in reducing the cost of living led him to carry out a thorough investigation, in which he...

21.07.2024 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Gallant Wants What's Good for Israel. Netanyahu Wants What's Good for Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't wait too long. Over Shabbat, he put out a press statement saying he was the one, at the very beginning of the...

17.07.2024 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

When Netanyahu Compares Himself to Churchill

Yahya Sinwar's heart rejoices as he watches the growing rift between Israel and the United States. He knows that there is nothing worse for Israel...

24.06.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

PR Is All Netanyahu Knows How to Do

While listening to U.S. President Joe Biden's important speech, a thought passed through my head: Why don't we have that? Why don't we have a leader...

05.06.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Part-time, Far-right Finance Minister Has Driven the Economy Over a Cliff

The condition of Israel's economy reminds me of a scene from a Tom and Jerry cartoon in which Jerry the mouse flees for his life from Tom the cat. He...

29.05.2024 70

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's 'Basket of Deplorables'

1. Israel's Chamberlain: Suddenly, when the war's results threatened him, he changed course. Instead of saying, "Remember what Amalek did unto thee,"...

26.05.2024 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Time for Israel to Cut Its Losses and Bring the Hostages Back

The October 7 massacre was a magnitude 10 earthquake. It led me to the understanding that we have to destroy Hamas; otherwise, it will destroy us.

28.04.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's God-fearing Finance Minister Found the Real Reason Iran's Attack Failed

1. Smotrich. Early Sunday morning, as the Iranian attack was winding down and it was clear Israel and its allies had intercepted 99 percent of the...

19.04.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Is Prolonging the Gaza War and Israel Can't Afford It

Israel isn't built for long wars. In all its war plans, ever since its inception, the Israel Defense Forces has planned short wars lasting a maximum...

08.04.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Is Biting the American Hand That Feeds Him

The following sentence could only be uttered by an arch-swindler devoid of inhibitions who is never grateful for anything: "Israel isn't a U.S....

17.03.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

The Real Reason Haredim Don't Want Their Children to Enlist in the IDF

When will we start to tell the truth about the Haredim? When will we stop hiding behind political correctness? It's time we recognized that the...

12.03.2024 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Pathetic Police Force Heralds a Dark Future

How can Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai sleep at night? He recently sold his soul to the devil so his term could be extended by a paltry six months....

01.03.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Even Finance Minister Smotrich Is Better Than Israel's Economy Minister

"How can this be?" a colleague berated me. "Prices are rising with no end in sight, and you report that the consumer price index didn't go up in...

29.02.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

If It Were Up to Israel's Defeatists, Hamas Would Remain in Power in Gaza

It was eminently foreseeable. After a few hours of shock, Israel haters worldwide figured out that the heroic rescue in Rafah was excessively brutal...

18.02.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Calls Fallen Soldiers 'Our Best Boys.' What About His Own Son?

There's no doubt about it, Chamberlain knows how to give a speech. His words are the masterpiece of a skilled crook. In his speech in the Knesset this...

26.01.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Out, Gallant In

Ilan Ittah represents hope. A former dedicated supporter of Israel's Neville Chamberlain, Benjamin Netanyahu, he became the prime minister's greatest...

24.01.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Defeatists Are Hamas' Useful Idiots

Not everybody was happy about the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri. It's true he was a mass murderer who sent hundreds of Hamas terrorists to kill...

05.01.2024 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Year of Calamity, Thanks to Our Very Own Chamberlain, Benjamin Netanyahu

⁕ The calamity: 2023 will forever be remembered as the year of the great calamity. Chamberlain will forever be remembered as the worst prime...

31.12.2023 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

No Israeli Soldier Is Laid to Rest in Bnei Brak

At 2:30 P.M. I was a little concerned. The parking lot at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv was still empty. But at 3 P.M., the time the...

27.12.2023 10

Haaretz

Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu and His Allies Are Anti-economic and Anti-Zionist

Amid all the pain and grief surrounding us, I enjoyed a brief comic interlude this week. Economy Minister Nir Barkat announced that he would run...

08.12.2023 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

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