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April 30, 2013
9:00 am

Gideon Levy, single-minded

Gideon Levy has long cut a melancholic figure within Israeli journalism, as if he is carrying the burden of all Israel’s indiscretions upon his shoulders. His work covering the......

April 15, 2013
12:00 pm

Israel, ad 120

In Hebrew, it seems as if there are numerous instructions to live a long and happy life where one’s eye is not dimmed nor natural force abated. Chai, the......

February 20, 2013
3:30 am

Tzipi Livni did the right thing

What else was she supposed to do? During the election campaign, Tzipi Livni spoke repeatedly about the need for the three main parties of the centre-left – Labor, Yesh......

January 21, 2013
9:00 am

Yachimovich is concluding Labor’s historic role

Ha’aretz columnist Ari Shavit credits Shelly Yachimovich with two things: “She revived the labour movement and succeeded in channelling the social justice protest into the Labor Party.” Indeed,......

December 14, 2012
3:11 pm

Leon Wieseltier and the case for hope

Last week, I was invited by a friend to speak at my former sixth-form college on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In so doing, I stressed that we......

November 19, 2012
4:13 pm

The road they didn’t take

Thoughts of mortality, of committing thousands of young men and reservists to war, ought to trouble and concentrate the mind. Worrisome, then, are the loose lips of Israel’s top......

October 7, 2012
2:08 pm

Mondoweiss goes to Tel Aviv, declares Zionism dead

If I were a writer for Mondoweiss, that infamous peddler of anti-Israel (some might say, anti-Semitic) tripe, I would be awfully surprised too if the people of Tel......

September 21, 2012
1:19 am

From ‘Sam Bacil’ to Dan Senor, the conspiracy lives

On the morning of September 12, Sam Bacile – an Israeli-American filmmaker and real-estate developer based in California – had gone into hiding. His movie, "The Innocence of......

August 14, 2012
2:04 pm

Don’t whitewash the Vatican

Historical narratives in the Middle East have often been the most malleable of things, twisted and adapted to suit political interests. As Simon Sebag Montefiore notes in his ambitious......

August 8, 2012
2:19 pm

Whither the utopian dream?

They're still around. There are fewer of them now, and many of those left have been forced to privatize. Still, some kibbutzim have been able......

July 26, 2012
12:59 am

On Israel, exposing Romney’s dirty tricks

It is far too easily forgotten that, in 1992, Bill Clinton ran against George H.W. Bush from the right on Israel. Bush had opposed a $10 billion loan guarantee......