Since being elected, President Trump has showered Netanyahu with a range of gifts, from the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem to the cessation of aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), and from recognition of Israel’s annexation…
Category: Talking politics
Israel fights Jihad while Hamas keeps silent
An Arabic proverb goes: “My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against the stranger”. In accordance with our reality in Israel and Gaza, we can translate this as “Bibi and Gantz against Hamas, and Bibi and…
The Ayatollah outfoxed Netanyahu
For a full five hours, the Israeli security cabinet discussed the topic of Iran, a nut that commentators have been trying in vain to crack. The commentators wonder whether Netanyahu is inventing a security problem, or whether we are indeed…
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…
Burning, but nothing urgent
The heat in Israel reached an all-time high. I stood at the Beit Rimon Junction in the middle of the day, waiting for the air-conditioned bus to save me from dehydration. My thoughts drifted to my 12-year-old granddaughter, located a…
On the agenda: a unity government
Even if a coalition against Bibi takes power, it will not rule well. Hatred of him cannot be the basis for cooperation between parties whose ideological distance is greater than that between carnivores and vegans.
Trump’s questionable gifts to Israel
“I did not conclude that the President committed a crime, but I also did not exonerate him,” said special counsel Robert Mueller, citing the results of his investigation into President Trump, which lasted two years and covers more than 400…
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…
“Sign, you dog!” The withering of the Palestinian Authority
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted the strategy of Donald Trump: Instead of military power, use economic force! From the moment of Trump’s election in 2016, he turned economic sanctions into his main tool to achieve what he wants in…
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.…