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Advertisements As I sat to write these words, a pro-democracy demonstration in Tel Aviv was winding down. Reports I received from colleagues at the march estimated the number at 20,000 in attendance, and YNET reports 15,000. This is most welcome news, and one hopes it is an indication that IsraelisContinue Reading

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Advertisements The poster below is circulated in Israel by a group called the National Left. I found it on their Facebook page. Their web site can be accessed here, but it is only in Hebrew. I just love the poster, though. The main message says “Yvet? Nyet!”, referring to AvigdorContinue Reading

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Advertisements (Note: This was cross-posted at Meretz USA’s blog.) In an interview given to Newsweek, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman made the following, quite chilling statement: “I am the mainstream. When I started with my vision, I was really a small minority. Today we’re the third [largest] party in Israel.”Continue Reading

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Advertisements The Israel-Palestine conflict is rich with many things, but nothing is so widespread in it as useless aphorisms. One of the most destructive of these is the oft-repeated mantra that “only direct negotiations between the two parties will resolve this conflict.” It was explicitly repeated today by leading IsraeliContinue Reading