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: Talking politics
Jerusalem – from a city of urban apartheid into the gateway to one democratic state
On Thursday, February 11, the DAAM Party held a public debate focused on Jerusalem. The discussion presented a difficult and alarming picture of a divided city in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents live in extremely difficult conditions. Conversely,…
Mansour Abbas puts religion before nationalism, breaking up the Arab Joint List
Knesset member Mansour Abbas, who recently split off from the Arab Joint List, dropped a powerful bomb when he said, “Religious principles are no less important than [Arab] national principles.” The utterance has not yet been answered by Abbas’ former…
Mtanes Shihadeh seeks a core solution
The “Arab sector,” as it is called in Israeli jargon, has returned to the headlines, and in a big way. This did not occur because of Azmi Bishara’s provocative statements, or because of Hanin Zoabi’s participation in the Mavi Marmara…
No more “Bibi or Tibi.” It’s “Bibi or Gidi!”
As we enter the fourth round of elections in two years, there exists a misconception that nothing has changed. The argument is that Bibi remains Bibi, and if the fourth round does not help him, we will go to a…
After you, Stav Shaffir
In a Haaretz opinion piece of December 9, 2020 (“Let the public elect the leaders of the Left”), Stav Shaffir, a leader of the 2011 social protest and former Labor MK, calls for the establishment of the “Israeli Democratic Party.”…
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…
The COVID-19 pandemic: a historic milestone in the development of humanity
Political report to the Central Committee of the Da’am Party. Since the last Central Committee meeting in February of this year, the political arena has undergone fundamental upheavals that we could not have anticipated. A global event like the coronavirus…
Biden-Harris and Israel
In about ten days, we’ll know who won one of the most fateful election campaigns in American – and possibly human – history. The differences between incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden could not be more pronounced.…
And the winner is Bennett
“What are they protesting about? Netanyahu. Only about Netanyahu. Not about anything else. Not about the Occupation, not about the injustices of Zionism and capitalism, and not about the climate crisis,” notes Uri Misgav in his Haaretz article (Oct. 8,…