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Ariel Bolstein

Ariel Bolstein is the founder of the Israel-advocacy organization Faces of Israel.

Doing so would have a welcome and practical impact on the outcome of Knesset elections.
Russian-speaking Jews are the Likud’s natural constituency ideologically, but the party has failed to provide them a viable political home. What can it do to turn the tide?
Russian-speaking voters have allied themselves with Avigdor Lieberman because other Israeli politicians have never courted them. This should end.
Israel should signal that if Corbyn becomes prime minister of Britain, it will downgrade diplomatic ties with the United Kingdom.
The term “racist,” which the Vermont senator applied to Israel by an irresponsible flap of the tongue, will inevitably take root in the public consciousness. That’s how propaganda works. Sanders knows that well.
The negotiations surrounding the creation of such a bloc are already unfolding before us, with each side marking their position and drafting their conditions for a future alliance.
Ever since entering the race, former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz’s approach has been to blur the distinction between right and left.
The Palestinian Authority has its finger in the pie, and emissaries of Mahmoud Abbas are openly working to keep the Arab parties united.
The Zionist left, if one can still call it that, does not present any alternative values to those it has lost.
Mahmoud Abbas was a loyal follower of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat, in every sense. Like Arafat, Abbas’s relations with Israel stemmed from his own inner anti-Semitism.
During the annual vote on a resolution calling on Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria, the United States, for the first time ever, voted against it.
The people of Israel have returned to the Golan Heights to stay, forever.