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Zvi Bar&x27El

Zvi Bar&x27El

Haaretz

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How Two Arab Children Exposed Israel's Fast-moving Apartheid

“Carmiel, a Jewish city, was designed to create a foundation for the Jewish settlement of Galilee. Opening a school for native Arabic speakers [as...

01.06.2023 50

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Netanyahu's Government Is Creating a Parallel Israeli State

Suddenly the hundreds of thousands of participants in the protests who filled the streets, blocked roads and along the way gathered in people who...

28.05.2023 40

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Can We Recognize Hamas Already?

Israel is the only country to demand that the world boycott and fight Hamas while at the same time granting de facto recognition to the...

18.05.2023 40

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Gaza Deaths Brought Israel's Coalition Back to Life

“It’s about time,” Itamar Ben-Gvir was quoted as saying in response to the assassinations of the three Islamic Jihad leaders and at least 10...

10.05.2023 70

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Is Israel's Judicial Overhaul Protest 'Allowed' to Touch on Other Causes?

This week, my colleague Odeh Bisharat scolded the organizers of the protest against the judicial overhaul for pouncing on issues they shouldn’t be...

05.05.2023 30

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A Netanyahu Plea Deal That Halts the Judicial Coup? Not Likely

A tempting offer sits on the Passover table – mediation between the attorney general and criminal defendant No. 1. The process would start with an...

09.04.2023 20

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Israel's Coup Is Tyranny Wrapped in the Cloak of Democracy Israel’s Judicial Coup Is Tyranny Wrapped in the Tattered Cloak of Democracy

The bland term “event” must be beside itself with pride. From now on, the brink of a civil war is nothing but an “event.” Incitement and...

30.03.2023 20

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For the Sake of Israel's Security, Lock Netanyahu Up Until His Trial Is Over

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a dangerous defendant. Not just because of the unbridled incitement rising from the chimneys of his home, and not...

24.03.2023 70

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Hezbollah Has More Urgent Matters Than a War With Israel

The guesses in Israel regarding Hassan Nasrallah’s intentions once again show that while it’s possible to know where his rockets are stored, which...

21.03.2023 20

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Hezbollah Has More Urgent Matters Than a War With Israel

The guesses in Israel regarding Hassan Nasrallah’s intentions once again show that while it’s possible to know where his rockets are stored, which...

21.03.2023 10

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Hezbollah Has More Urgent Matters Than a War With Israel

The guesses in Israel regarding Hassan Nasrallah’s intentions once again show that while it’s possible to know where his rockets are stored, which...

21.03.2023 10

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Ben-Gvir’s Fiendish Brilliance Could Seal the Fate of Israel’s AG

Itamar Ben-Gvir has asked the Supreme Court to permit him to represent himself in the petitions that have been submitted against him, or to appoint an...

16.03.2023 10

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The Dangerous Alliance Between Pro-democracy Protestors and the Israeli Military

The army has finally discovered politics and turned itself into a key offensive player on the field where it always used to sit in the stands. At...

10.03.2023 20

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The Blue Israeli Blood Over the Green Line

A grave, unbridgeable contradiction lies at the heart of a bill mandating the death penalty for terrorists. The wording proposed by MK Limor Son Har...

05.03.2023 10

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Don't Let the Battle Against Israel's Dictatorship Laws Become a Blame Game

The dictatorship laws have passed their first Knesset vote. The rope is already hanging from the gallows, the hangman has already blindfolded the...

24.02.2023 10

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Israeli Protestors' Only Option: Winning

Under the circumstances, dialogue is a euphemism. It contains the pretense that it ultimately involves some kind of friendly discourse between two...

16.02.2023 40

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Netanyahu's Alternative Elite Was Born to Rule

“It’s time they understood that they’ve lost, that elite group that wants to take by force what doesn’t belong to them. Incitement to murder,...

09.02.2023 10

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Why Israel's Opposition Lawmakers Should Refuse to Bolster the Façade of Democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke about the Israeli government as if it were a foreign occupier that had descended on Israel and was alien...

02.02.2023 10

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Not Just About Netanyahu: Judicial Overhaul Will Destroy Palestinian Rights

Leading the list of the most popular articles on Haaretz’s Hebrew website on Monday was one by Michael Hauser Tov titled “The four stages of the...

26.01.2023 70

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Learning to Censor From Turkey and Egypt

Last month, Turkish director Emin Alper and producer Nadir Operli received a bitter surprise. Right before their prize-winning film “Burning Days”...

19.01.2023 30

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Israel's Far-right Government Is Erasing the Oslo Accords

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich want to go back to the occupation’s early days. They want to erase...

12.01.2023 50

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Ben-Gvir Is Leading Israel to Hell

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is determined to provoke an intifada that will be named for him. He won’t rest until he drags the Israeli...

05.01.2023 80

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Zionism Is Racism

“We, in Israel, have endeavored to create a society which strives to implement the highest ideals of society – political, social and cultural –...

29.12.2022 300

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Do Not Succumb to the Ben-Gvir Law

It’s hard not to be struck by the sudden mutual admiration forming between Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and National Security...

22.12.2022 10

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Coordinator of Criminal Organizations

Such a panic has set in: Bezalel Smotrich, the fascist messiah, will be given the power to appoint the coordinator of government activities in the...

08.12.2022 9

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Netanyahu Has Left Crumbs for Likud’s Beggars

We are slowly getting used to the idea that Itamar Ben-Gvir will be the public security minister. And not just a minister, but the police’s czar. He...

24.11.2022 10

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