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Uri Misgav

Uri Misgav

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Netanyahu's War Between the Wars

Five years ago, on November 29, 2019, Israel Katz was sent in place of Benjamin Netanyahu to address the United Nations General Assembly. "I, Israel...

27.09.2024 60

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Israel's War Has Gone on Long Enough. Let's Not Go Like Sheep to the Slaughter

I gaze at the picture of Agam Naim from Kibbutz Mishmarot, who was killed in Rafah. Agam smiles at me from the screen. The caption says she was a...

20.09.2024 60

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Every Israeli Must Decide if They're Ready to Join the Insanity of Re-settling Gaza

In comparison to his ramblings in the U.S. Congress and United Nations, the address to the nation that Prime Minister Netanyahu gave this week is...

07.09.2024 80

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Israel's Failed Education Minister Is the True Face of Bibistan

The orderly start of the school year is the most important mission of the Israeli education minister. September 1 is his money time. Education...

01.09.2024 50

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Netanyahu's Disgraceful Alliance With Kowtowing Straw Groups

The Tikva Forum represents the lack of hope. The Gvura Forum represents the lack of courage. We need to talk about them, and about their alliance with...

23.08.2024 20

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Barak Hiram Is an Arrogant Blowhard, but Israeli Army Chief Halevi Is the Real Issue

I despise Barak Hiram no less than he despises me and others like me. Who is he anyway to dare to criticize Israeliness? What studies and what life...

09.08.2024 20

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Netanyahu's the Head, but His Allies Are to Blame

An acquaintance of mine, who is educated and broad-minded, obviously intelligent, wrote on Wednesday: "On the one hand, it's amazing. On the other, my...

02.08.2024 70

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Israel's Only True Opposition Is the Teenage Granddaughter of a Hostage Killed in Gaza

I want to scream out loud: Be Talia Dancyg.

26.07.2024 50

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With Netanyahu, Israel Can't Do Anything Right – Even Build His Private Plane

A hijacked plane called Wing of Zion is scheduled to take off for Washington on Sunday. The plane is a dismal monument to everything Benjamin...

18.07.2024 20

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'Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity' in Netanyahu's Israel

I wanted to write about the disgrace that is the Wing of Zion. After eight years and a billion shekels we have been informed this week that it's not...

12.07.2024 80

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Netanyahu' Doesn't Want to 'Go Back to October 6,' and for a Good Reason

After the devastation of October 7, members of the nightmare government were in total shock. It was hard for them to show their faces in public, they...

05.07.2024 50

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Narcissistic Netanyahu Casts Himself as God's Messenger and Israel's Savior

At the culmination of the interview that Benjamin Netanyahu was summoned to give to his blind followers at Channel 14 this week, presenter Yinon Magal...

28.06.2024 20

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Sinwar Has Israel Where He Wants It: Netanyahu Is Making Hamas' Dreams Come True

Almog Shalom, 19, Eitan Karlsbrun, 20, Tal Pshebilski Shaulov, 24, and Yair Levin, 19, were killed this week in Rafah. A booby-trapped house collapsed...

14.06.2024 30

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Israel Isn't Ready for the Third Lebanon War

On Wednesday I went up to the bombarded, burning north when IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi announced that "Israel is approaching the point where it...

07.06.2024 40

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Netanyahu and Gantz Have Both Defeated Israel

On October 7, Hamas defeated Israel. In a frontal attack by the light of day, riding trucks and armed with Kalashnikovs. Since October 8, Israel has...

31.05.2024 40

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Israel Should Have Arrested Arch-criminal Netanyahu

There has been no greater criminal in Israeli history than Benjamin Netanyahu.

24.05.2024 100

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War Cabinet Minister Gadi Eisenkot, Take Command of the Israeli Gov't

The State of Israel, like the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team, has been relegated. Under similar circumstances. Hapoel Tel Aviv was relegated after a...

16.05.2024 60

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Israelis Must Understand the Insanity of Netanyahu's War

I ask for just one thing: That you stop playing with our minds. If Rafah is really the key to our survival, why did we not attack it until now. If we...

10.05.2024 70

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Netanyahu Is Taking Us to Masada With a Rafah Offensive. Stop Him

The time has come to speak to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his own words. After all, he has always known how to talk. In fact, that is the...

02.05.2024 70

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The Sacrificing of the Hostages Is a Crime Against Israeliness and Judaism

The abandonment of the hostages to a fate – dying of torture, in agony – is a strategic event in the country's history. It undermines Israel's...

26.04.2024 60

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This Passover, There Is No Freedom, Only Defeat on Every Front

This is the saddest Passover I can remember.

24.04.2024 30

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Israel's Last Gatekeeper Must Have the Courage to Probe Netanyahu's Tycoon Ties

Dear Gali Baharav-Miara, I am turning to you as a last resort. Save us from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Even Al Capone was finally taken down...

21.04.2024 30

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When Iran Fired Missiles at Israel, Netanyahu Was Safe in a Tycoon's Bunker

In early January 2023, days after his new cabinet was sworn in, Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed four goals for the new government: dealing with Iran;...

17.04.2024 40

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Netanyahu and His Generals Assassinated Any Chance of a Hostage Deal

Two decidedly deranged decisions have brought Israel to the very brink of the end of the world as we know it. The assassination of senior officials in...

13.04.2024 20

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Israel Is a Long Way From 'Total Victory' in Gaza. Now It's Our Turn

Half a year has passed since Hamas's invasion of Israel, the massacre of its people and children, the rape of its women, the abduction of its citizens...

04.04.2024 20

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The Netanyahu War Is the Worst in Israel's History

The Netanyahu War is the most unsuccessful in Israel's history. Since October 7 the country's situation has worsened on all fronts. Most of Israel's...

28.03.2024 40

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An SOS to Sane Israelis: Save Us From Netanyahu and His Insane Government

This is an emergency call. Help. The moment of truth has arrived. In fact, it's passed. But now there is a real chance of bringing home the hostages...

22.03.2024 30

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Netanyahu and His Enablers Are Closer Than Ever to Total Victory – Over Israel

A strategic threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's continued rule emerged on October 7. All his doctrines collapsed. He was paralyzed, in...

15.03.2024 20

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For Netanyahu, the Gaza War Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving

The defendant Benjamin Netanyahu asked the court this week to delay the testimonies of three key prosecution witnesses and to significantly reduce the...

08.03.2024 20

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Israelis Beware: Netanyahu's Path to Tyranny Runs Through the Shin Bet

This is no false alarm. Netanyahu has invaded, occupied, destroyed and looted the State of Israel. If the supporters of good government, its servants...

03.03.2024 50

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More Isolated and Unhinged Than Ever, Israel Is Becoming the North Korea of the Mideast

1. Benjamin Netanyahu is not a prisoner in the hands of Itamar Ben-Gvir, isn't afraid of him and doesn't depend on him. That's a common mistaken...

23.02.2024 50

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Good Guy Gantz Is Narcissistic Netanyahu's Dream Rival

What do we actually want from Benjamin Netanyahu? For him to place his head in the guillotine of his own free will? Voluntarily? People like him don't...

16.02.2024 10

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Netanyahu and His Squad of Cease-fire Refuseniks Have Hostages' Blood on Their Hands

Israel failed completely for four months to release the hostages via military action. It became clear that they aren't waiting in the Entebbe airport...

11.02.2024 50

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Netanyahu's Greatest Victory Is Against the People of Israel

Two main enemies to democratic Israel arose during this past decade: Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu. On October 7, the commonality of their interests...

04.02.2024 50

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Israel Has Nothing Left to Gain From the War. Stop Sending Our Children to Die in Gaza

Yair Netanyahu returned this week to The Slate, the prestigious apartment compound where he is living it up in Miami. He will not be killed in Khan...

25.01.2024 10

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Israeli Democrats Must Get Ready for the Civil War

In January 2023, a horrible new government came to power. Its leader set for it four goals – security and governance, Iran, the cost of living and...

19.01.2024 20

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Why Do Israelis Accept This Catastrophic Situation?

Hello to the parents of soldiers who are fighting and being wounded and dying in the south and the north. And hello to the families of the hostages...

12.01.2024 20

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The Road to The Hague Is Paved With Israeli Calls for Genocide of Gazans

No one has any idea what the "day after" picture in Gaza will be. The government and the man who heads it have refused for three months to deal with...

06.01.2024 70

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Sanctifying the Indiscriminate Killing in Gaza Is Israel's Second Defeat

Friends from Kibbutz Or Haner sought to pay a shivah call to Iris Haim, whose son Yotam was one of three hostages shot dead by Israeli soldiers after...

30.12.2023 70

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Netanyahu Was Paralyzed During Hamas' Attack on October 7

In Israel, a conspiracy of silence surrounds Benjamin Netanyahu's paralysis and failure to function on October 7.

22.12.2023 40

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Netanyahu's Silver Platter: Dead and Wounded IDF Soldiers

Did you stifle a tear watching Gal Eisenkot's funeral? Multiply that by 114. That is the number of soldiers who have been killed in the Gaza Strip –...

15.12.2023 50

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If Netanyahu Stays, Israel Will Be Doomed

Two months ago, Hamas stormed the western Negev. This was the foundational historical event of our generation: shock, drama, tragedy, rupture.

07.12.2023 30

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