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Both men want to keep disputes between them private. But sympathy for the anti-Bibi resistance and differences over Iran could change that.
The apocalyptic rhetoric about Netanyahu’s government and its judicial-reform proposal is about maintaining the power of a minority and thwarting democracy, not protecting it.
The reductive portrait of Israelis’ connection to the Jewish state painted by the country’s opposition leader is beyond the pale. It also illustrates that members of the right were justified all along to question the depth of the Yesh Atid Party chairman’s Zionism.
Such reform is a contentious issue in Israel and the diaspora, which underscores why it should be discussed rationally and soberly, without hyperbolic and potentially dangerous charges.
Denying a fellowship to the man who transformed Human Rights Watch into an anti-Zionist propaganda machine is justified, not a blow to free speech.
The Department of Homeland Security has internalized the Palestinian big lie.
The left’s hysterical talk about civil war is caused by the fear that their decades-old power grab is being undone.
Netanyahu’s plans for judicial reform are necessary to stop a powerful minority from imposing its will on the majority.
The new Speaker of the House has good reason to boot the antisemitic congresswoman from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.
Professor Asa Kasher, author of the IDF’s Code of Conduct, inadvertently did more to explain the victory of the right than most of its own champions.
In response to the P.A.-spurred UNGA resolution calling on the International Court of Justice to render an opinion on Israeli “occupation, settlement and annexation,” the new administration in Jerusalem is launching a counter-offensive.