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Feb 26, 2024, 2:52 PM

Despite Netanyahu’s ‘day After’ Memo, There is No Plan in Place

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, wears a protective vest and helmet as he receives a security briefing with commanders and soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout via AP)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s one-page plan for the day after the war in Gaza isn’t a plan at all. Rather, it’s a list of the Israeli prime minister’s long-held and often contradictory positions on the Gaza conflict — committed to writing...

Sep 27, 2023, 2:58 PM

Shift & Shake: Jewish Terrorism from Hills to the Big Apple Skyscrapers

On Oct. 16, 2019, masked settlers from Yitzhar and its surrounding outposts assaulted Israeli and American-Jewish activists who were assisting Palestinians with their olive harvest, among them an 80-year-old rabbi, Od Yosef Chai President Yitzchak Ginsburgh, a Missouri-born ultra-Orthodox...

Sep 26, 2023, 12:16 PM

The Battle for Democracy: Reservists Defend Israel’s National Interests

In recent months, Israel has been embroiled in a political crisis that has brought the future of its democracy into question. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet have been pushing for a judicial overhaul that would consolidate power...

Apr 1, 2023, 6:21 PM

Iran: The Only Winner of Netanyahu’s Confrontation with Biden

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US Vice-President Joe Biden speak in front of media prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. The meeting comes less than a week after a diplomatic breakthrough between the U.S. and Iran that has put Israel's government on edge.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t be invited to the White House in the “near term” US President Joe Biden told reporters on Tuesday, as he urged Israel to drop its judicial reform plan. "I hope he walks away from...

Mar 31, 2023, 5:38 PM

Iran’s new war campaign against Israel

Israel has long made clear its penchant for applying military pressure to disrupt Iran’s nuclear advances and weapons exports — and, more recently, its drone technology program. In the last few months, however, Israel’s appetite for risk seems to...

Mar 15, 2023, 10:25 PM

When Good Samaritan is Being Slaughtered by the Kahanist Cabinet

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - 2023/02/11: A protester raises a "Scales of Justice" symbol while other protesters hold a banner and placards during the demonstration. Over 130,000 people protested in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government and its controversial legal reform. The proposed legal reform would allow the parliament to overrule the Supreme Court's decision with a majority voting among the 120-seat lawmakers. However, they appoint judges, which boosts their political influence over the system. (Photo by Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Benjamin Netanyahu no longer governs Israel, but the country’s nationalist and illiberal trajectories run far deeper than one individual. Israel’s increasingly entrenched hold over Palestinian territories is one obvious manifestation of the country’s right-wing agenda. But in recent years,...

Feb 22, 2023, 1:31 PM

Trace of Kahanism in the New Netanyahu Cabinet

An Israeli man walks past an electoral billboard bearing portraits of Netanyahu flanked by extreme-right politicians, including Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, in Jerusalem in 2019 (AFP)

Tensions increased as the far-right cabinet was established in Israel. Netanyahu this time, was back with a numerous amount of votes from right-wing voters and a cabinet filled with hardliners. The major change is the security at risk in...

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Daniel Albu is a father, photographer and freelance journalist living and working in New York.