Advertisements Israel’s election was expected to bring back Benjamin Netanyahu and give the far-right Religious Zionism party a significant boost. But Netanyahu and his far-right/religious bloc ended up winning a very clear majority, the only left-wing Zionist party and one liberal Arab party failed to make the Knesset, and ReligiousContinue Reading
Advertisements AIPAC has received intense criticism for the decision of its new political action committee to endorse 37 Republicans who tried to prevent the certification of the presidential election of 2020. In my latest piece for +972 Magazine, I argue that the criticism, while coming in many cases from unprecedentedContinue Reading
Advertisements While the ever crafty Benjamin Netanyahu can never be counted out until he’s really out, it is looking more and more like his long-time reign over Israel is about to end. Considering that Netanyahu is not now and has never been a particularly popular figure in Israel and hasContinue Reading
Advertisements It’s not hard to tell when an individual or an organization isn’t really interested in finding a way to end the Israeli occupation, no matter what they say about a “two-state solution.” Virtually everyone–even many who are not seeking a truly equitable resolution to this conflict–agrees that a necessaryContinue Reading
Ehud Barak characterized his new party as a challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and for the moment, that’s what it is. But it is also an effort to unseat Avigdor Liberman from his position as kingmaker. Liberman has thrown the Israeli electoral system into disarray by essentially demanding that Likud, without Netanyahu, and Benny Gantz’s and Yair Lapid’s Blue and White coalition form a unity government.Continue Reading
