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Sami Peretz

Sami Peretz

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If Netanyahu Doesn't Testify Now - He Never Will

The reasons Benjamin Netanyahu gave for wanting to delay testifying in his trial sound logical: In recent months he was busy dealing with several...

14.11.2024 30

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Don't Let Netanyahu Shape the Narrative. Call It the October 7 War

When compared with his political rivals, Benjamin Netanyahu has two strengths that stand out: a lack of shame and an obsession with branding. The lack...

31.10.2024 40

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Israeli Government's Message to Its Soldiers: Shut Up and Fight

Under the current government, the Israeli soldier has never had it worse. Compulsory service has been extended by four months, the length of reserve...

27.10.2024 60

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Israel Has Become a Country of Masters and Servants

"I very much hope that in the weeks ahead we will be able to arrange it – that yeshiva students will be able to sit and learn undisturbed and...

20.10.2024 100

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Smotrich Forgets to Mention One Thing About His Plans for Israel: The Cost

After fighting in Gaza for the past year, Israel's 36th Division is now operating in south Lebanon. If it were up to the head of the Religious Zionism...

10.10.2024 70

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Does Israel's Sleepy Opposition Even Want to Bring Down Netanyahu's Coalition?

Replacing a defense minister in wartime is a very serious step, but no less serious and twisted is the rationale for doing it, namely to advance...

19.09.2024 70

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Israeli Control of Philadelphi Corridor Is Just the Latest of Netanyahu's Manipulations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a tendency to take pride in a very strange type of achievement: He takes a threat that has already been carried...

09.09.2024 70

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Don't Let Netanyahu's Malfunctioning Government Bring Down Israel's Last Bastion

The shock and trauma of the terrible failure of October 7 should have forced Israel's government to focus on the war and minimize the damage that the...

30.08.2024 30

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In Netanyahu's War on Democracy, International Gatekeepers Now Hold All the Cards

The government's open war on its democratic gatekeepers and its professional civil servants looks like a wrestling match aimed at transferring some...

22.08.2024 70

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Israel's on the Brink of Economic Crisis, but Survival Trumps Responsibility for Netanyahu

The ultra-Orthodox community has been worried about the High Court of Justice's ruling that orders its young men to be drafted into the army and end...

16.08.2024 70

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Organized Chaos: How Netanyahu Thrives Off Division and Uncertainty

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi foretold just before taking office that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main endeavor during his present...

12.08.2024 20

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Netanyahu's U.S. Trip Reflects Nine Years of Israel's Moral Destruction

What did the Netanyahu government hope to achieve when, on January 4, 2023, Justice Minister Yariv Levin unveiled the "first stage" of his judicial...

26.07.2024 90

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Dragging Out Netanyahu's Trial Is a Delay of Justice for the Israeli Public

16.07.2024 70

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If Democracy's 'Gatekeepers Are the Public,' Netanyahu Should Let Them Vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement this week that explains everything about the current government: "In a democracy, the gatekeepers...

04.07.2024 70

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In Condemning the ICC's Arrest Warrants, Israeli Lawmakers Fell Into Netanyahu's Trap

The statement signed by all members of the Knesset (with the exception of lawmakers from the Arab parties and the Labor Party), condemning the request...

22.05.2024 70

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The War in Gaza Demands Daring Beyond the Battlefield

The Israel Defense Forces conducted three separate operations against Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during recent years in which Hamas didn't...

16.05.2024 70

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U.S. Sanctioning an IDF Unit Is the Rotten Fruit of the Elor Azaria Affair

The U.S. administration is considering imposing sanctions on the IDF's Netzah Yehuda battalion, due to what it perceives as human rights violations by...

26.04.2024 70

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Bibi's Word Salad of Euphemisms Covers Up a Complete Absence of Policy

17.04.2024 60

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Israel Must Stop Financing the ultra-Orthodox Draft-dodgers

In his extraordinary letter to the High Court of Justice on the issue of drafting ultra-Orthodox men, requesting a one-month extension before a...

10.04.2024 70

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Netanyahu Spits in the Faces of Israel's Soldiers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox parties have a permanent deal. He preserves the ultra-Orthodox way of life, and they, in...

29.03.2024 50

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Netanyahu's 'Blame the IDF for October 7' Strategy Is Working

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's abortive attempt to challenge the army chief of staff's power to promote colonels is meant not only to promote...

21.03.2024 80

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Smotrich's Dangerous Battle to Blame the IDF for October 7

Since October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his partners on the far right, ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, have been waging...

14.03.2024 100

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Israel's Far-right Must Let the Public Judge Its Policies in an Early Election

Even judging by the most right-wing criteria imaginable, the current Netanyahu government must end its tenure as soon as possible and call early...

22.02.2024 70

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Procrastination Is the Specialty of Netanyahu's Paralyzed Israeli Government

Likud's strategy since the catastrophe of October 7 is just to get through this year safely. They see their plummeting ratings in opinion polls and...

14.02.2024 9

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Netanyahu's Other 'Total Victory' May Already Be Here

Everyone knows that Benjamin Netanyahu bases his actions on one thing: the survival of his core government, the one before Benny Gantz's National...

09.02.2024 60

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Gantz, Break With Netanyahu and Fight for an Early Election

Two conflicting tasks have left Israel at an impasse: beating Hamas in Gaza and freeing the hostages. The ground incursion pushed the group to release...

21.01.2024 60

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Israel's Internal Opposition Is Hindering Successful Policies Against Hamas

Let's say that the war cabinet were to decide to break the Israel Defense Force's pattern of operation and to advance a misleading exercise of...

11.01.2024 70

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Six Reasons Israel Needs to Hold New Elections

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the law abolishing the reasonableness standard says more about the nature of the current government than it...

04.01.2024 60

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How Netanyahu Enabled October 7 With Suitcases of Cash

Benjamin Netanyahu's years long policy of strengthening Hamas manifested partly in the prime minister's permitting and even supporting the flow of...

21.12.2023 100

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Netanyahu, the Failed 'Guardian of Israel's Security,' Must Resign Today

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already prepared for a future state commission of inquiry to investigate the terrible failures that led to the...

14.12.2023 80

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Will Gantz Know When to Leave Netanyahu's Government?

When asked how long he plans to remain in the current unity government, National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz typically responds, “Just as I...

04.12.2023 70

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