Column
Even an anti-government advocate’s reasonable request for a security-related pause in the protests is rejected by fellow activists.
We Jews, and particularly American Jews, have a great story. Why not tell it again and again?
Politics now serves the role that religion used to play in most people’s lives. That necessitates both a temporary ceasefire and a return to the traditional Haggadah.
The U.S. administration is trying to reach an accord that will give Tehran the means to exert hegemonic power in the region.
The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy in a “cutting off your nose to spite your face” campaign.
Comparisons between the legal problems of Trump and Netanyahu illustrate the way the left in both countries is wrongly trying to use lawfare tactics to take down foes.
While the Israeli left has had no choice but to concede the government to a voter base shifting to the right, it is unprepared and unwilling to give up control of state institutions.
The well-deserved high standing of IAF pilots has gone to their heads in a dangerous way. Throwing their weight around to influence government policy is bad enough, but crushing the morale of those who maintain their planes is beyond inexcusable.
Succumbing to U.S. presidential coercion ignores precedent, undermines Israeli deterrence, encourages anti-U.S. and anti-Israel regimes and adds fuel to the Middle East fire.
The proclaimed purpose of the reforms is to correct a decades-old imbalance between the powers of Israel’s aggressive and activist high court and the government.
Those who stopped judicial reform are hailing their efforts as democracy in action. But these mass protests follow a pattern that began in the United States after 2016. It won’t end well.
If you advocate a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against a nation in toto, then you end up judging the protests before you have even assessed them.