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Outgoing Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 22, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Lapid is right, the madness must stop

In a Facebook post, Yair Lapid shows he has no respect for the democratic processes he says he is out to save.

February 12, 2023

President Herzog must use his trip to Europe to address inconvenient truths about the Palestinian Authority

Unlike the Europeans, who have no qualms about publicly delegitimizing Israel, we Israelis are so diplomatic that our leaders do not openly say anything that might hurt their feelings.

January 25, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, July 3, 2022. Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Lapid’s major EU achievement is no achievement at all

Will the prime minister use the renewal of the E.U. Association Council with Israel to stop European funding of anti-Israel projects and NGOs?

August 2, 2022

Meretz parliament member Mossi Raz attends a lobby meeting in the Israeli parliament on June 22, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Pinpointing the problem of settler violence

If the desired resolution comprises the demonization of violently acting-out young Jewish men and their incarceration without attention to societal and other background issues, then there will be no resolution.

February 2, 2022

Much ado about trees … and a game of chicken

The Ra’am Party flexes its muscles, threatens to act against the government (and does act against the government), but does it really want to bring this coalition down—the first one in which an Arab political party has had membership?

January 14, 2022

Palestinians protest to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash who is currently on hunger strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 3, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Why is Israel letting the hunger-striking Palestinian terrorist die?

Israeli intelligence has allegedly foiled a great number of terrorist attacks before they could be carried out. Perhaps administrative detention, then, is part of a strategy that has proven successful.

January 3, 2022

A screenshot from a video produced by the South Hebron Hills Watch. Source: Screenshot.

When an anti-Zionist Facebook group proves its own propaganda wrong

Is Israel pushing Palestinians off their land? No, and the answer requires some explanation.

December 13, 2021