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It's a matter of priorities. If you want a hostage deal, you put everything aside and work diligently toward that end.
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...
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...
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...
The Washington Post recently reported that after the bloody, criminal attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 100 Jewish billionaires and...
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...
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...
I participated in the mass demonstration outside the Knesset last Tuesday. When I arrived at the road leading towards the protest, I encountered an...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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."...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
"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...
On the Sunday following Hamas' bloody assault, everyone who's anyone eulogized the political career of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I myself was...
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...