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Sam Lehman-Wilzig
May 16, 2025, 9:40 AM
Democracy’s Immune System Is Working (in Israel & the World)
Democracy is under attack in Israel, the US, and several other countries around the world. Indeed, in 2018 no less than two Harvard political science professors published a best-selling book: “How Democracies Die,” warning of democracy’s slow slide to...
Simon Kupfer
Apr 25, 2025, 7:32 AM
How to fix the centrism problem
Israeli centrism, contrary to popular belief, is not suffering from irrelevance, but from fragmentation. The need for a credible, pragmatic centre has never been greater in a country so utterly divided over issues of religion, democracy, and security. To...
Simon Kupfer
Apr 22, 2025, 3:48 PM
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The Israeli center cannot hold unless it learns how to fight
For years, center-left Zionists believed peace was inevitable, and arguably, this was their undoing. What's needed are ideas, not slogans
Shay Gal
Mar 3, 2025, 3:50 PM
Strategic Politics: What Germany Must Learn from Israel’s Fragmentation
When Germany faced a political crisis in 1966, the country’s two largest parties—CDU and SPD—set aside their differences and formed a grand coalition. The move was far from ideal, but it prevented a political vacuum that could have destabilized...
Judy Halper
Feb 26, 2025, 9:23 PM
A man, a plan, Amman
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has a plan for the day after the war. It involves Egypt. Okay, the plan has some holes. Firstly, Egypt has not agreed to it and is not likely to agree. Also, Lapid presented...
David Page
Sep 22, 2024, 7:05 AM
For the Miracles and for the Wonders
Even though Israel's existential war has not yet ended, it is fitting to pause to appreciate moments of spectacular and breathtaking victory. There is no question that the highly-targeted beeper and walkie-talkie operation exclusively and successfully targeting Hezbollah terrorists,...
Ophir Menachem
Sep 11, 2024, 10:23 PM
To Gantz, Lapid, and Deri
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, like many of us, you are undoubtedly alarmed by the state of our beloved country. A time when during a war a handful of extreme voices, are mired in politics and rhetoric that endangers...
Yair Lapid
Aug 19, 2024, 12:54 PM
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So now we’re not allowed to eliminate terrorists?
On the immoral, perilous notion that terrorist organizations and states have the right to retaliate against liberal democracies
Seth Eisenberg
Aug 18, 2024, 8:53 AM
Bennett, Gantz, and Lapid Must Be Held Accountable
The recent revelations that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had in their possession a detailed Hamas battle plan well before the October 7 attack, yet neither acted on it nor shared it with key political and military leaders, are...
Menachem Rosensaft
Aug 10, 2024, 1:58 AM
Reclaiming Zionism
If a minister of any government anywhere in the world had said that they would consider the murder of any number of Jews — let alone millions — morally justifiable for any reason whatsoever, one would have heard screams...
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