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Nov 21, 2023, 1:42 PM

Gaza: The forgotten option that might work

UN Trusteeship Council chamber in New York. By MusikAnimal - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38533833

What happens to Gaza when the current fighting ends? The Israeli Government is reluctant to discuss this, remaining focussed on its goals of removing Hamas from power and freeing the hostages. It has no interest in re-occupying Gaza. I know...

Nov 1, 2023, 6:03 PM

To Cornell University’s President

Dear President Pollack, I have read with interest your recent message to the Cornell community. As someone who studied at Cornell in 1972-75, and who visited the campus most recently in June of this year, I wanted to let you...

Oct 10, 2023, 2:54 PM

A battle for the soul of social democracy

The war unleashed by Hamas on Saturday morning has shone a spotlight on political movements across the world. In the movement I consider home — social democracy — some important divisions have come into the light. In Britain, the leadership...

Aug 19, 2019, 4:37 AM

How Netanyahu lost

On October 30, 1972 a little-known author named Arthur Tobier published a book entitled How McGovern Won the Presidency and Why the Polls Were Wrong. The New York Times described the book as "perhaps premature". A few days later, Richard...

Apr 10, 2019, 4:09 PM

If we can’t get a new government, let’s get a new Left

The Israeli Left failed yesterday in its attempt to change the leadership and the direction of the country. Maybe it’s time to change the Left instead. And let’s learn a lesson from Israel’s history to show us how to...

Apr 7, 2019, 1:00 PM

If having a prime minister who faces a number of serious criminal charges doesn’t bother you because you think it’s all “fake news” cooked up by the left-wing media, you can relax because polls show that most people agree...

Mar 19, 2019, 12:30 PM

It’s time to talk about peace, not separation

The late Amos Oz had a very appealing way of describing his vision for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. "I don't believe in a sudden burst of mutual love between Israel and Palestine," he would say. "I expect a...

Feb 25, 2019, 6:03 PM

Confronting Kahane – then and now

The recent intervention of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the affairs of Israel's far Right means it is now likely that followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane will be elected to the 21st Knesset. Many Israelis will remember...

Feb 17, 2019, 10:05 PM

In defense of wasting votes

My very first job, in between high school and university, was with an organization that registered young people to vote. My whole life, I have voted in elections, I have worked hard to get candidates I liked elected, and...

Jan 28, 2019, 6:42 AM

Ann Coulter wants Jared Kushner to be deported

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter is furious at Donald Trump for, in her view, caving in to the Democrats and putting an end (for now) to the US federal government shutdown. Coulter has long criticised Trump for not being sufficiently right-wing,...

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Eric Lee is the founding editor of LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of several books about 20th-century history. His next book is The August Uprising 1924: Georgia and the Birth of Democratic Socialism. He was a member of Kibbutz Ein Dor from 1981-1998.

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