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Jul 31, 2023, 10:53 PM
Israel-Saudi Arabia: Cost Benefit Balance Sheet
While Israel is dealing with its greatest, most dangerous ever internal crisis, it also has to ponder the pros and cons of a possible agreement with Saudi Arabia, whether as seems more likely a normalization agreement or even full...
Jul 23, 2023, 6:45 PM
RIGHT AND LEFT IN ISRAEL-TIME FOR RETHINKING
Writing about the current wave of protests in Israel with a view to refer to the future entails for me a clear professional hazard. Yes, I did realize from the very beginning of this government, that something else is...
Jun 25, 2023, 5:05 PM
The Druze Crisis in Israel-Causes and Timing
The current crisis in Israel officially revolves around the ''Legal Reform'' or the ''regime revolution '', but in actual terms it is much more than that-it is a struggle, long overdue, over the core issue of the very identity...
Aug 8, 2022, 6:22 AM
Gaza – Surprising beginning and the foretold ending
Another round in the ongoing drama of Gaza and Israel came to an end. It was shorter than the previous ones, but altogether resembling them all but with one exception. It was the first time since 2009 that Israel...
Jul 5, 2022, 6:02 PM
Bennett and the experiment – Israel in transition
Naftali Bennett already entered the history books as the shortest serving PM of the state. Clearly, he wanted to have his entry under more glorious circumstances. He may still gain this as we shall reflect on his term with...
Nov 25, 2021, 7:05 PM
The Club-On Turkey, Jews and Israel
Teaching the History of the Middle East means almost automatically being a fan of Turkey. There is no way to understand the modern Middle East without understanding the Ottoman Empire background. Then also the legacy which it left on...
Oct 6, 2021, 8:36 PM
Bennett Talks and Talks -Is Netanyahu Revisited?
It is a well-known folkloristic Israeli story about the guys who do not finish whatever it is that they do, but run and tell the friends about their accomplishments. It may be good for kids in youth movements ,...
Sep 30, 2021, 10:18 PM
Kamala Harris: It IS important
It is arguably the case, that many of us who watch the current state of US-ISRAEL relations, and with it the feelings and opinions of American Jews have had a sigh of relief after the House approved with a...
Sep 5, 2021, 7:27 PM
Sport and Politics, Israel and Others
I need to start this piece with a small personal confession-I am addicted to soccer, yes, my only recognized addiction from age of four years old, and then another confession-I have always mixed soccer and politics. It was so...
Sep 1, 2021, 9:42 AM
On Dependence and Independence – Israel and the US
The recent Visit of P.M Bennett in the US brought again to light the question of how much freedom of action Israel REALLY has when it faces the need to make crucial decisions, perhaps even existential ones, and in...
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Dr Josef Olmert, a Middle East expert, is currently an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina
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