Neither the right nor the left in their present form suit most Israeli citizens, and the old bipolar situation has become an anachronism Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Posts published in “Benjamin Netanyahu”
The problem is that ‘opposition’ candidates Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and generations of Israelis suckled an outsized fear of anti-Semitism with their mother’s milk Source:…
The premier himself hints that we’d be worse off without him, but Israel owes its recent success to factors beyond his control Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The prime minister’s political career of nothing but himself is over and it doesn’t matter whether it happens in the coming election or immediately afterwards …
A country cannot function when it is led by a person who accuses the police, prosecutors, opposition and press of conspiring against him Source: https://www.haaretz.com
One minute he’s inciting as if Kahane were really alive, the next he’s showing off his civilized manners alongside world leaders. And then you start…
Where criticism is disloyalty and political rivals are stabbers in the nation’s back – free elections turn into a ticking time bomb that needs to…
Every person of conscience must imagine a leader of any country accusing a political opponent of relying on ‘Jewish votes’ Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Netanyahu blames the Arab parties for working toward ‘the elimination of the state of Israel’ when in fact the prime minister himself has a few…
If Meir Kahane hadn’t come to Israel, his toxic Brooklyn-born racism would have withered away. But his ideology found fertile ground, shed its accent, and…
We U.S. Jews said during the Women’s March controversy we’d never tolerate a Farrakhan or his fans in our community: there would be an immediate,…
Netanyahu wants the right to look at Mendelblit’s signature on the indictment and see Rabin’s signature on the Oslo Accords, to look at the center-left…
Netanyahu is backing Israel’s KKK for naked domestic political gain. And that’s not all the damage his frenzied, odious political maneuver has caused Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Netanyahu is looking to a viciously supremacist party called Jewish Power to put his re-election campaign over the top Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Israel’s right-wing is seduced by European nationalists’ warmth toward the Jewish state, and their hostility toward Islam. But an illiberal Europe intolerant of minorities and…
Rep. Ilhan Omar has apologized for her inexcusably insensitive tweet. But the core issue behind her comment – whether the U.S. should continue to reflexively…
Likud has selected the most right-wing slate in its history and Israel is cheering just because a few of the marginal menaces like legislator Hazan…
PM couldn’t take David Levy and he drove Moshe Kahlon out of the party. In this week’s Likud primaries, the Mizrahim around him had no…
Israel just expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from 800 heavily guarded far-right settlers, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered…
Maybe it isn’t surprising that a system whose task is to fight Israel’s real enemies rebels against Netanyahu, the expert in inventing imaginary foes Source:…