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Voting Netanyahu out is not going to ‘save’ Israel-Palestine
Israeli citizens are about to vote in national elections for the second time in six months. But has anything changed since April? Why is no one talking about the occupation? And are we really about to see the end of the Netanyahu era? +972 writers talk about why these elections matter. Israeli voters will head to the…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 15, 2019
The three bullets that killed Israel’s left-wing bloc
Without the Arab citizens there is no ‘left-wing bloc’ in Israeli politics. The only problem? The inclusion of Arabs was what led the Right to violently bring down the Left in the first place. By Lev Grinberg Since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, there have been no political blocs in Israel. No Left and no…
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February 25, 2015
Israel’s elections: A referendum on Netanyahu
The coalition is falling apart, and the Knesset is likely to agree on early elections soon. Current polls suggest we are heading toward a fourth Netanyahu government, which will be even more right wing than the current one. Netanyahu’s third government has reached its end. New elections, which seemed likely when the Gaza war ended,…
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Noam Sheizaf
December 2, 2014
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New law would demote Arabic language in the name of ‘social cohesion’
Members of Knesset say law builds a ‘collective identity’ that will preserve the ‘values of democracy.’ By Orly Noy A group of MKs from Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud and Jewish Home recently submitted a bill that calls to rescind the status of Arabic as an official language in Israel. On its own, the bill is neither out…
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Orly Noy
August 26, 2014
The Bibi-Lieberman deal: A wake-up call to the world about Israel
By unifying himself and the country’s ruling party with an internationally despised neo-fascist, Netanyahu has brought Israel a sizable step closer to the limits of Western tolerance. Ultimately, that’s good news. The only way Israel is ever going to give up the occupation and its habit of military aggression is by going too far –…
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Larry Derfner
October 25, 2012
Why isn’t Lieberman capitalising on the women’s rights issue?
Avigdor Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beitenu, owes much of its clout to flying the secularist banner and opposing the growing religious influence over Israeli public life. So why aren’t they standing up against gender segregation? Put simply, they now have much bigger fish to fry. The subject of segregation between men and women in Israeli public…
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Dimi Reider
December 19, 2011
Bibi backs law to ban loudspeakers at mosques (!!!)
“We don’t have to be more liberal than Europe,” says Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Believe it or not, Bibi wants to prohibit mosques from using loudspeakers to broadcast the muezzin’s daily calls to prayer – which, as everyone knows, is the identifying sound of the Middle East, where Israel reportedly is located. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu told Likud cabinet ministers on Sunday: The same problem…
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Larry Derfner
December 12, 2011
Upheaval! Knesset neo-fascists taking a beating
Latest blow: Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein tells Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu he won’t defend anti-NGO bills in Supreme Court. In all the (well-placed) wailing over the totalitarian legislation being pushed in the Knesset by the Likud and Yisrael Beitenu, the good guys don’t seem to have noticed that all their wailing has had a tremendous…
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Larry Derfner
December 7, 2011
“Every Jewish community needs its nigger”
I hope that headline pissed you off. I really do.Because that’s how I pretty much felt this morning, when I picked up the paper. I was reading the coverage of the approval of a bill proposal to allow small communal settlements in the Negev and the Galilee to reject would-be newcomers, if they are unsuitable…
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Ami Kaufman
October 27, 2010
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