Against the backdrop of successive wars between Israel and Gaza, a storm is raging around the recent reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey. Two Israeli families whose dead sons are in the hands of Hamas accuse Netanyahu of abandoning them…
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Herzog’s Pipe Dream
More than a week has passed since former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon dropped his political bombshell and slammed the cabinet door in Netanyahu’s face. He was replaced by Avigdor Lieberman and the coalition was enlarged by five seats. It seems…
Netanyahu sacks Ya’alon and makes new enemies
It was hard to anticipate the sudden inclusion of right-winger Avigdor Lieberman into the government, not just because negotiations between the Labor Party’s Yitzhak Herzog and PM Benjamin Netanyahu seemed a done deal, but mainly because it goes against all…
States of denial: Israel and the impending collapse of the Palestinian Authority
Here are the words of Israel’s Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Ze’ev Elkin, the man with the highest IQ in the Knesset.“The current wave of terrorism is a ‘promo’ of what will happen after the Palestinian Authority (PA) collapses. Most scenarios…
Apartheid by consent
For some time now Prime Minister Netanyahu has been conducting an ongoing dialogue with his military on the future of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The background is clear: first, the latest outbreak of the “Stabbing Intifada” shows that PA President…
When a child is the enemy
Israel is currently facing a wave of violence unknown for more than a decade. Both unnamed and undefined, it has been characterized by bodies of Israelis lying in the street alongside bodies of Palestinian children who have been “neutralized” by…
Obama gives up on the Middle East, Netanyahu gives up on peace
A year and a half have passed since the last meeting between Obama and Netanyahu. Meanwhile, the Middle East has changed. Obama and Netanyahu came to power in the same year, and have not stopped sparring since. The climax was…
The political black hole
It seems the recent “intifada of knives” has been the opening volley of the next election campaign. Opposition leader Isaac Herzog’s Knesset speech, in which every sentence was preceded with the words “when I am prime minister,” left no room…
Netanyahu’s new dysfunctional government
A majority of 61 Knesset seats out of 120 isn’t bad, but it’s not enough to govern. Coalition members who have not yet been sworn in know this well, but they rush ahead blindly nonetheless. We have almost forgotten the…
Bibistan: Chasing Hamas, finishing Abu Mazen
The abduction of the three Israeli youths was the sign, and Israel’s media took up the call. Thus began the familiar routine of nonstop broadcasts, interrupted only for the World Cup. In this way a suitable atmosphere was created, and…