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Aug 23, 2026, 2:27 PM

How Netanyahu taught Israel to give up on peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, June 14, 2009, backing a demilitarized Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner,Pool)

Bibi didn’t create Palestinian rejectionism or October 7. But he spent years obstructing a two-state solution – and telling Israelis that hope itself was naive

Aug 29, 2025, 6:10 PM

No more excuses: Leaders must not remain silent

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, surrounded by Israeli policemen, waves to other right-wing activists gathering outside the Damascus Gate of the walled Old City of Jerusalem on May 26, 2025, during a flag march for Jerusalem Day, commemorating the Israeli army's 1967 capture of the city's eastern sector. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Those in the opposition in Israel and worldwide need to start doing their job, and stop ceding the field to the radical right

Jul 6, 2024, 3:52 PM

The expansionist government that shrunk the country

True leaders are honest about the challenges and advance strategies to address them. Instead, Israel is ruled by demagogues

Jan 31, 2024, 10:05 PM

The reckless lack of a viable vision for peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement, January 19, 2024. (screenshot)

Netanyahu's rejection of a 2-state deal endangers the support Israel desperately needs from allies and regional partners

Aug 15, 2022, 2:49 PM

For Israel’s sake, Arab citizens must vote in droves

An Arab Israeli girl casts her mother's ballot at a polling station in the northern Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm on March 17, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli/File)

The Arab parties will balance the Knesset, and help block another self-serving government that's propped up by religious fundamentalists and ultra-nationalists

Apr 2, 2018, 1:08 PM

Israel and the Diaspora: We have to talk

An Israeli flag at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

The Israeli government's failure to move toward peace is creating a dangerous crisis for young Diaspora Zionists

Mar 22, 2017, 7:48 PM

‘The JLC has provided real representation for the 21st century’

Sir Mick Davis has announced he won't stand for another term as Jewish Leadership Council chair. The following is his letter to council members of the JLC: With elections approaching, I want to let you know that I have decided not...

Feb 26, 2013, 12:55 AM

Towards a coalition of values

For the sake of Israel and the Jewish people the next government must be founded on peace, contribution and dignity of man

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About Me

Sir Mick Davis is a former Chief Executive of Xstrata and of the Conservative Party, and co-founder of The London Initiative.