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The Dirty Deal to Save Bibi's Bacon: A Second Netanyahu-Gantz Government

We Can Conclude a Great Deal About the Intentions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu From His Flights Abroad – Rome, Berlin, London. Despite the Fact That He → Read More

Unworthy to Be the Brotherof Yoni Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu, Do You Understand What the Letter Sent to You by Those Who Fought Alongside Your Brother in Entebbe Really Says? It Says That Your Brother Y → Read More

Unworthy to Be the Brother of Yoni Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu, Do You Understand What the Letter Sent to You by Those Who Fought Alongside Your Brother in Entebbe Really Says? It Says That Your Brother Y → Read More

Israel’s Second Upheaval

The Protest Against Dictatorship Is Becoming a Broad Cultural Phenomenon. A New Lifestyle, Which Includes Regular Participation in the Active Opposition to The → Read More

Netanyahu, the Failed Populist

Look, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the Day You Lost the Support of Your Confidant, Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen – the One Who Was Mentioned as Your Possible Heir, → Read More

Netanyahu, It’s Over

Benjamin Netanyahu, You’re Surrounded. It’s Over. Your Effort Was Magnificent, but This Game Is Nearing Its End. The Dike Behind Which You Are Hunkering Has Dev → Read More

Tel Aviv Demonstration Was More Like a Scouts Meeting

The Organizers of the Recent Demonstration on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv Deserve Praise. Their Excellent Organizational Ability, Including Raising Significant Fu → Read More

What Does the IDF Chief See in the Mirror?

What Does Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi See When He Looks in the Mirror? We Can Assume That the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Sees a Great Patriot. A Cele → Read More

You Two-state Supporters, How Deep Is Your Repression?

You, Who Applauded Prime Minister Yair Lapid During His United Nations General Assembly Speech Late Last Month and Said to Yourselves “Finally.” You, Who Tweete → Read More

The Trojan Horse That Is Destroying Israel

Historian Barbara Tuchman Coined the Term “The March of Folly” in Her Famous, Eponymous Book, Which Was Published in 1984 When Israel Was in the Midst of Anothe → Read More

What Fun to Commit Murder in an IDF Uniform

The Name of Col. Avinoam Emunah Has Been in the Headlines Since He Announced He Was Quitting the Israel Defense Forces Because He Had Failed to Get the Promotio → Read More

Israeli Schools Have Become the Country’s Babysitter

The Israeli School System Is a Babysitter. Today’s Parents Have Viewed It That Way Ever Since They Themselves Were Children, When They, Too, Were Bored Students → Read More

The Ballad of Mrs. Left and Mr. Right

MK Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Recent Threats to Use the Political Power That Will Be Given to Him in the Coming Election to Revoke the Citizenship of and Expel Israelis → Read More

No Operation Is Taking Place in Gaza

There’s a Lie That’s Almost Unanimously Accepted in Israel These Days According to Which a Military Operation Is Now Taking Place in the Gaza Strip. But That Is → Read More

For the Blind Leftists: The Facts

Realistically Speaking, All Hope Is Lost for Opponents of the Occupation and Apartheid. The Data From the Election Survey Among Young Voters, Which Were Recentl → Read More

A Game-changer Called Itamar Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben Gvir Is the Biggest TV Star in Israeli Politics Since Former Benjamin Netanyahu. He Is the Perfect Embodiment of an Eternal “Hilltop Youth,” a Type O → Read More

Meretz Has Nothing More to Offer the Israeli Public

It’s Nice That Zehava Galon Finally Decided to Run for the Leadership of Meretz, but It Ultimately Doesn’t Matter Who Heads the Party, She or Yair Golan. It Doe → Read More

The Supreme Court belongs to the liberals

Israeli liberals are infuriated by the aggressive and threatening declarations aimed at the Supreme Court and the High Court of Justice by politicians who represent the ultra-Orthodox, religious Zionism and the Bibi-ist right. These pronouncements are considered – and rightfully so – to be antidemocratic and a declaration of war against the rule of law. The revolution in how judges are chosen in… → Read More

Living in Tel Aviv has never been worse

Life in Tel Aviv is now worse than it’s ever been in my lifetime, and I’ve been living in it for 35 years. I wonder what songwriter/columnist Eli Mohar, who so loved the → Read More

Jewish and sociopathic

Two facts stand out in Israel’s policy vis-a-vis the war of Ukraine. The first: Israel refuses to open its gates to Ukrainian war refugees. The second: Israel refuses to → Read More