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Amnon Lord

Amnon Lord is an Israeli journalist with the daily newspaper “Makor Rishon.” His articles and essays about media, film and politics have been published in “The Jerusalem Post,” “Mida,” “Azure,” “Nativ” and “Achshav.”

Rather than captivate voters by presenting big and bold reforms with uplifting and positive rhetoric, he has been sucked into tit-for-tat attacks and come off as a reluctant warrior.
April 9 is another three-and-a-half months away. This short time frame is particularly problematic for the political novices getting the most media coverage at the moment.
On the operational side, on the ground, we know from our experience in Gaza that at some point, the other side will retaliate.
In the past, the army always knew what it wanted to do and pressured the political echelon for approval. This is not the case now.
Anti-Semitism in the United States is not at its peak. It may be on the rise, as it is in Britain, France and Germany. But it was actually much worse in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
The situation in Gaza has never been subjected to such an unjustified political game.
Israel may be willing to tolerate some things to ‎avoid an unnecessary military conflict, but the fact that ‎Palestinian terrorism dictates the daily routine of ‎Israelis living near the border cannot be one of ‎them. ‎
What kind of message does this combined effort on her behalf send? That nothing is legal in Israel unless it is sanctioned by Haaretz and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Hamas terror tunnel just destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces is the 15th such tunnel exposed in the past year.
When a story suddenly appeared in the press about a possible fifth year for Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, government sources said: “He won’t get even a minute more.”
Even today, some Israeli security officials, especially on the left, refuse to accept that the Palestinians are playing the long game against Israel.
The closure of the Palestinian mission in Washington is just the latest in a series of moves by a U.S. administration that does not differentiate between the Palestinians’ diplomatic warfare against Israel and the various terrorist methods it employs.