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…
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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,…
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…
Thomas Friedman and the one-state solution
“Are we still debating the two-state solution? Or is it time for another conversation, that is: What agreement is best within the framework of a single bi-national state from the Jordan to the sea?” Nahum Barnea received this response…
Netanyahu’s nonsensical occupation
After a well-publicized visit to Oman, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the Likud faction in the Knesset saying: “The occupation is nonsense.” This is not a slip of the tongue or a jab at the Left. On the surface, it…