Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Roei Eisenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Mon, 20 May 2013 01:42:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Most Hardline Government in Israeli History http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-most-hardline-government-in-israeli-history/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-most-hardline-government-in-israeli-history/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:44:16 +0000 Roei Eisenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96754 We wield words like weapons. We accuse writers of bias, reporters of journalistic malpractice, and citizens – of certain countries – of criminal behavior on a national scale. But we rarely stop the rushing train of accusations long enough to judge the behavior of actors over time. Consider the 2013 Israeli Knesset elections. Internally, the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/identity-interrupted/feed/ 34 The Speech Bibi Could Have Given http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-speech-bibi-could-have-given/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-speech-bibi-could-have-given/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:20:28 +0000 Roei Eisenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=67938 As my Twitter feed exploded with mockery and support for Netanyahu’s ACME antics, I took a moment to imagine what might have been: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: today we must speak of a grave matter. My country has faced existential crises from the moment we declared our independence. In [...]

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