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Quiet, Netanyahu Is Addressing Congress. The Hostages Can Wait

It's a matter of priorities. If you want a hostage deal, you put everything aside and work diligently toward that end.

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Israelis Must Choose: A Crack of Light, or Darkness

For nine months, I've been looking for a crack in the wall of hatred and messianism – in vain. In the wake of the October massacre, the majority of...

09.07.2024 30

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I Tried, but I Couldn't Feel Happy About Israel's Deadly Hostage Rescue

Any release from captivity to freedom opens the universe's deepest wellsprings of joy, and all the more so when we're talking about captives or...

11.06.2024 60

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The ICJ Ruling Against Israel Is a Slap in the Face to Israel's Justice System

If I had been able to advise Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, I would have suggested first issuing...

27.05.2024 100

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Jewish Billionaires and DIY Antisemitism on American College Campuses

The Washington Post recently reported that after the bloody, criminal attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 100 Jewish billionaires and...

21.05.2024 50

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Israel Has Become a Burden to the Jewish People

Sometimes I wonder why we don't see demonstrations in American against Russians because of Russia's aggression on Ukraine, or why we don't see...

10.05.2024 100

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Tel-Aviv-Jaffa's Pluralist Fortress Is Beginning to Fall

24.04.2024 20

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Biden Needs to Issue a Few More 'Don'ts' to Israel's Disastrous Leaders

Even before the first of many Iranian drones aimed at Israel was launched on Saturday to its bitter fate, journalist Amir Oren likened Iran's conduct...

15.04.2024 50

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Reflections on Pain and Connectivity at an Israeli Protest

I participated in the mass demonstration outside the Knesset last Tuesday. When I arrived at the road leading towards the protest, I encountered an...

08.04.2024 30

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As Israel Relies on Force, It Sets Itself Up for Suicide

A cornerstone of the Zionist leadership's doctrine, both before and after the establishment of the state, is that Israel must be the strongest country...

01.04.2024 50

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Supporters of Equal Burden Have an Ally in Smotrich

Several years ago, when I was a member of the Young Communist League of Israel, the party's adult members taught us that we must always look for the...

19.03.2024 30

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Go Ahead and Blow Up a University in Gaza, but Follow Procedure!

"The injustice cries out. Of all the errors and blunders in this war the only one who has had a disciplinary note slapped on him is Barak Hiram? Did...

18.03.2024 30

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Israelis Who Seek Peace Need to Fight Biden

First of all, I apologize to my brothers and sisters, the progressives of America, for the above headline. Unfortunately, I'm not capable of being...

12.03.2024 50

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To the Hungry Girl in Gaza: I Am Ashamed on Behalf of the Good People in the World

With a penetrating gaze, an apologetic smile and tears running from her beautiful black eyes, the Gazan girl of nine or 10 whispered: "I am hungry."...

05.03.2024 40

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There Are No 'Uninvolved Civilians' in Israel

Despite opposition leader Yair Lapid's anguished cry of "what are we talking about – there isn't one official body in the world that's proposing...

29.02.2024 20

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Netanyahu Is Not the Only One Fleeing From a Cease-fire

"Sit crookedly, but talk straight," an Arabic maxim says. In a riff on that, one might say that most Israeli leaders talk crookedly – or to use the...

21.02.2024 10

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The World Will Not Be Able to Say 'We Didn't Know' About What Israel Will Do in Rafah

Apart from death, nothing in life is total. Perhaps that is what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meant when he vows time after time that the goal of...

14.02.2024 70

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Israel Is Being Dragged Into the Black Hole of the Messianic Right

A not insignificant number of Israeli Jews have been euphoric ever since October 7. This euphoria hasn't stopped for a moment. Is it real, or does it...

06.02.2024 30

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The ICJ's Ruling Is Just a Piece of Paper. Tear It Up, President Herzog!

The sheer evil of the judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague is astounding. Their honors did not demand to end the fighting, but...

30.01.2024 20

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To the Israeli Establishment, Every Hostage Is a Heavy Burden

People get used to wealth just as they do to poverty, and to death just as they do to the good life. When I pay a condolence call of late, I say,...

23.01.2024 20

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Where Do We Start When Discussing Israeli and Palestinian Suffering?

Should we start from October 7, 2023, or a few hours later, on October 8? The answer to this question denoted one of the key disputes between the...

16.01.2024 30

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FYI, Half a Million Gazans May Die This Year

First of all, allow me to explain that, with the above headline, I have no intention of appealing to the consciences of my readers to do something...

10.01.2024 40

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Author Eli Amir Explains Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Two Words: 'Muslim Jealousy'

"The Muslims' jealousy of the Jews is a critical point," author Eli Amir said in an interview with Anat Lev Adler in the daily Yedioth Ahronoth...

01.01.2024 60

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Netanyahu Can't Be Counted Out, and His Opposition Can't Be Trusted

On the Sunday following Hamas' bloody assault, everyone who's anyone eulogized the political career of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I myself was...

20.12.2023 30

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U.S. Hypocrites Now Warn Israel to Be Careful

After 58 days of horrific bombing, more than 20,000 dead and missing, thousands of destroyed homes and the start of a massive humanitarian crisis, the...

04.12.2023 70

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