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Oct 5, 2024, 8:38 AM

Campus freedom fighters, here’s your poster boy!

A Palestinian terrorist and his accomplice make sure one of their victims is dead on October 1 in southern Tel Aviv. (X screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

October 7 is just around the corner. I thought it would be a nice gesture to provide a proper visual for those preparing to celebrate a year since Hamas’s… er, heroic resistance For Israel-haters, it doesn’t get much better than...

Sep 23, 2024, 11:16 PM

The un-defense minister proves he’s the un-Bibi

Gideon Sa’ar, once seeing himself as Israel’s savior, finally acknowledges that it’s not all about him It is safe to say that Gideon Sa’ar has long seen himself as someone worthy of leading Israel. It is now reasonable to say...

Sep 14, 2024, 4:21 PM

The insult that made a man out of Itamar

97-lb weaklings once turned to Charles Atlas. Our minister of national security needs only his personal police force

Sep 2, 2024, 8:39 AM

It was Hamas that killed the six. And yet…

One cannot ignore Netanyahu’s foot-dragging on the hostages. Not after last week’s cabinet meeting

Aug 26, 2024, 4:15 PM

On ingrates and reaching Italy with dry feet

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the early morning preemptive strike carried out by Israel against Hezbollah rocket launchers, at the start of a cabinet meeting, August 25, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)

Leaked recordings from a meeting with released hostages reveal the immense suffering experienced by...the Netanyahus

Aug 9, 2024, 6:58 PM

Reading is believing: Smotrich tells the negotiators to butt out

“You’ve got to read it to believe it,” Israel’s far-right finance minister Betzalel Smotrich wrote Friday morning in a post on the platform formerly known as Twitter. And yes, you do have to read it. Smotrich’s post, that is. He...

Jul 31, 2024, 9:47 PM

Untie those yellow ribbons: They’re meaningless

Not long after October 7, the families of those held hostage in the Gaza Strip began distributing dog tags calling for an immediate deal to bring their loved ones home. The dog tags were very distinctive, indicating a clear...

Apr 8, 2024, 5:03 PM

Yes, Bibi, Israel is a banana republic. Watch out for the peel

The first time I heard an Israeli leader deny that Israel is a “banana republic” was late in 1981, when prime minister Menachem Begin dressed down US ambassador Samuel Lewis during a private meeting. “Are we a vassal state of...

Nov 6, 2023, 2:20 PM

Even empathy needs a break

My Facebook feed has been full of lofty sayings of late. The most recent? “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” This one is attributed...

Jul 20, 2023, 10:22 AM

A farewell to arms?

Refusing to serve as a form of protest has its dangers – but no more so than the proposed policies of Netanyahu’s government

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Lawrence Rifkin is a retired Israeli journalist.