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Zvi Bar&x27El

Zvi Bar&x27El

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Israel Is Entering the Most Dangerous Stage: Acceptance

Over the last year, Israel has gone through all of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of grief. Denial, astonishment and shock at what happened to us were...

10.10.2024 60

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Israel Has No Way Out of the War in Lebanon Without an Agreement

"Returning the residents of the north securely to their homes" is obviously something Israel should be seeking to achieve, an essential aim of the...

26.09.2024 50

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Don't Believe the 'No Choice' Lie. Israel Does Not Need a War in Lebanon

Israel is rushing with its eyes wide open into a war of choice in Lebanon, without knowing who will be the defense minister leading it, while the...

20.09.2024 70

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Ben-Gvir Is the Military Arm of Israel's Terror Organization Government

What should Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet, do when faced with evidence showing that a member of Israel's government is working to lay a bomb on...

29.08.2024 80

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Netanyahu Keeps the Wheels of Insanity Spinning With His Talk of 'Total Victory'

For the past 10 months Israel has been waging a war from hand to mouth. Another raid on a "terror infrastructure," another senior official...

22.08.2024 80

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Israel's Defense Minister Isn't a Hero. He's Just Telling the Truth

Not believing in "total victory" is an "anti-Israeli" narrative. Doing so means scoffing at the narrative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has...

15.08.2024 10

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Are Israel's Defense Chiefs Lying About the Hostages Too?

We've finally managed to put on a real show, not just a neighborhood brawl or an exchange of blows with mobs. Now we potentially face an all-out war...

11.08.2024 70

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Why the Judicial Coup and Sde Teiman Riots Have More in Common Than You Think

An attempted coup by the government against the army took place on Monday in the military detention center at Sde Teiman and the Beit Lid base.

02.08.2024 40

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The Silent West Bank Settlers Are More Than Complicit in Violence Against Palestinians

In blunt and mostly accurate words, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, outgoing commander of the army's Central Command, described the nationalist Jewish crime...

11.07.2024 70

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Israeli Settler Terrorism Is State Terror Against Palestinians

Very belatedly – more than 46 years after the founding of Amana, the settlement arm of Gush Emunim – Canada has imposed sanctions against the...

07.07.2024 80

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Israel's Mafia Government Is Employing the Hannibal Directive Against the Nation

Raviv Drucker's investigative report on the madness of Miri Regev's management of the Transportation Ministry is deeply frustrating not just due to...

31.05.2024 90

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Does the Israeli Army Chief Sleep Well at Night?

"I'm the commander who sent your sons and daughters to the battle from which they didn't return and to the outposts from which they were abducted,"...

16.05.2024 60

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Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar's Strategic Assets: Ben-Gvir and Smotrich

Yahya Sinwar's heart surely skipped a few beats when he heard the news that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had been injured in a car...

02.05.2024 70

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Benny Gantz, Stop Propping Up Netanyahu's Coalition and Israel's Aimless War in Gaza

Public opinion polls point to trends more than they show actual numbers. Such a poll was published on the eve of Passover on Israel's Channel 13 TV,...

23.04.2024 20

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Facing Hamas and Tehran, Israel Is Left With Only Vengeful Madness

There's no act more unnecessary and dangerous than the blind vengeance that the government of Israel is so determined to take against Iran. But one...

18.04.2024 50

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They Avenged, We Avenge, They Will Avenge: The Endless Cycle for Israelis and Palestinians

This war has turned the idea of the "context" into a most contemptible and threatening concept.

11.04.2024 60

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The West Bank Proves: Netanyahu's Talking Nonsense About 'Total Victory' in Gaza

Until we eliminate the four Hamas battalions located in Rafah, the war can't end and there won't be a victory.

04.04.2024 40

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Netanyahu's Bid Against 'Sister Democracy' U.S. Veils His Goal of Staying in Power

"It's inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there. … We're not a banana republic. I think the only...

21.03.2024 40

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Killing Israel's Int'l Relations: The Foreign Minister's Campaign to Delegitimize the UN

"At the battalion's head, Commander Tom Thumb marches. He wears a steel helmet, and has a sharp pin in his hand," wrote lyricist Ella Amitan in the...

14.03.2024 20

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Who Will Erect a Memorial for the Israeli Hostages Abandoned in Gaza?

The era of uncertainty is over. Hamas is on the brink of total collapse, its fighters defeated, its leadership begging for a cease-fire. Military...

03.03.2024 30

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Next U.S. Sanctions May Target More Than Individuals, and Israel Can Only Blame Itself

The precedent-setting executive order given by the U.S. president, imposing sanctions on four settlers, clarifies sharply and clearly the new American...

16.02.2024 40

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Israel's Campaign in Gaza Has Become a Holy War to Atone for the Disengagement

For 19 years, Jews lived in exile in the state of Israel, their hearts filled with a great yearning to return to their homeland and their mouths...

01.02.2024 50

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After the Families of Hostages, It's Now the Soldiers' Families Turn to Shake Israel

In May 1983, about a year after the first Lebanon war broke out, and after around 500 soldiers had been killed in it, a group of Israelis formed...

25.01.2024 10

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It's Okay for Israelis to Start Protesting Again

We have 136 hostages buried alive, or in some cases already dead, in Hamas' tunnels in the Gaza Strip. We have 522 dead soldiers, of whom 188 have...

18.01.2024 10

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What Happens When an Israeli Leader Takes Responsibility

Israel Katz is a responsible cabinet minister. In an interview with Channel 14, he "revealed" that Israel was responsible for this week's...

10.01.2024 100

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When You're the Most Moral Army in the World, Everything Is Permissable

We've finally found the main culprit in the deaths of some 20,000 Palestinians in this war, roughly 60 percent of them civilians and about a third of...

28.12.2023 30

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Invoking the Nazis to Justify Mass Death in Gaza

"Gaza is very similar to Nazi Germany of World War II, where almost the entire population supported the leader and his ideology. Therefore, the war...

22.12.2023 40

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Israelis Must Reject Government's False Promises of 'Perfect Security'

We can already discuss a victory image, because there won't be a greater victory than what we're seeing now in Gaza.

16.12.2023 20

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It's Not Just Gaza That's Waiting for the Day After Israel Achieves Its Goals

We're two months into the war, but there's still no clear picture, no plan, not even a hint of how the Gaza Strip will look on the day Israel decides...

12.12.2023 70

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