Sometime in late October 2020, I wrote an article entitled “And the winner is … Bennett.” This was at the height of the Balfour demonstrations, which aroused the false sense that young people had finally risen up to overthrow Bibi.…
Category: Analysis
Where is the Israeli Biden?
In his victory speech, Joe Biden, the President-Elect of the United States, did not forget to thank the ones to whom he owed his victory – his black supporters. Pounding on the podium, he said “You’ve always had my back…
Netanyahu’s New Deal
In an interview with a popular local radio show last week, Transportation Minister Miri Regev tried to inject a new idea into the public discourse by saying that in the time of COVID-19, “Israel needs a New Deal.” The interviewers…
The Green movement in Israel: A political critique
At the very last moment, just before the deadline for submitting party lists to the Knesset Election Committee, Stav Shaffir convened a press conference on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard to announce that she would not run for election. About Shaffir…
After Soleimani: An assessment
Qasem Soleimani is no longer with us, and tens of thousands in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and even within Iran itself celebrated his death. Israel did not celebrate, expressing instead weak support for President Trump’s action, explicitly instructing Israeli ministers to…
Netanyahu’s wake
Binyamin Netanyahu lost the second round of elections big time, and yet his opponent could not manage to win. The imbroglio created in the first round only became more complicated following the second. Netanyahu lost not only because his number…
A Netanyahu victory would be a tactical achievement for Nasrallah
Two weeks before the elections and Netanyahu has done it again, with Israelis once again leaning back in their recliners. Netanyahu gave both a stinging slap to Hassan Nasrallah and came out of it at little cost. It was amazing,…
The magician unmasked: A funny thing happened on the way to a coalition
The people had its say, selecting Netanyahu as prime minister, acquitting him of all guilt and providing him with a right-wing bloc. Yet the omnipotent Bibi failed miserably to form a government. The last elections were a referendum on the…
Israeli democracy and the demographic threat
The following piece was first published in Hebrew on April 15, 2019, a few days after the elections in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu is set to serve a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister. His government will be like the previous one.…
Gazans Want to Live
“We want to live” is the rallying call that has mobilized thousands of young Gazans against the Hamas regime on an unprecedented scale. These youngsters have lost their trust and patience. They do not believe that rockets, balloons, incendiary kites,…