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Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Prophet of wrath, harbinger of the future
Because of his provocativeness, it's easy to miss Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s profound moral seriousness and the great relevance of his thought today.
By Carlo Strenger | Mar 13, 2013 | 12:03 PM | 10
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Israel isn't being delegitimized – the settlements are
By equating criticism leveled at Israeli settlements to efforts to delegitimize Israel, Netanyahu is resorting to cheap political trickery unbefitting of a Western democracy.
By Carlo Strenger | Feb 27, 2013 | 02:25 PM | 24
Obama at the Western Wall
Obama's chance to connect with Israelis and promote peace - despite Netanyahu
The American president should take into account that most Israelis are more open and flexible than their PM to the message that there are ways to move toward compromise with the Palestinians without harming Israel’s security.
By Carlo Strenger | Feb 20, 2013 | 02:16 PM | 36
Settler in E-1
Status quo of Israel’s West Bank occupation is catastrophic illusion
Israel's political discourse is largely based on the mistaken assumption that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unlikely to change.
By Carlo Strenger | Feb 13, 2013 | 01:51 PM | 49
Obama at the Western Wall
Memo to President Obama: Bypass Netanyahu - reach Israelis’ hearts
A large proportion of Israelis are more similar to the liberal Jews who informed Obama's formative years than to Benjamin Netanyahu. Remembering this is key.
By Carlo Strenger | Feb 6, 2013 | 03:29 PM | 11
The Israeli film 'The Gatekeepers'
Netanyahu must watch The Gatekeepers, if only to save his own legacy
The Prime Minister's Office has said that Israel's leader has not seen the Oscar-nominated documentary, nor does he plan to. This is a shame, not just for Israel, but also for Netanyahu's own legacy.
By Carlo Strenger | Jan 30, 2013 | 01:10 PM | 14
Election - Reuters
The winner of the Israeli election: democracy
The free world leaders should listen to the new voice of the new Israel. If they will bring fresh thinking to the table, a brighter horizon could rise.
By Carlo Strenger | Jan 23, 2013 | 01:23 PM | 21
The Israeli film 'The Gatekeepers'
Keepers at the gates of our democracy
The Oscar-nominated film 'The Gatekeepers' is stirring and soul-shaking. It's also a testimony to the thriving democracy we could one day become.
By Carlo Strenger | Jan 16, 2013 | 01:42 PM | 2
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Israel’s election is a culture war
Every ethnic, religious and political group fears that if it will not dominate all others, it will itself be wiped out.
By Carlo Strenger | Jan 9, 2013 | 01:23 PM | 4
Meretz head Zahava Gal-On, right, at a press conference in December.
Strong right wing or not, Israel will remain a liberal democracy
The coming Knesset will have a sizable center-left bloc, and it is to be hoped that its leaders will understand that it is part of their civic and political duty to oppose any legislation that undermines the pillars of the liberal order.
By Carlo Strenger | Jan 2, 2013 | 11:06 AM | 25
A left-wing protest in Tel Aviv last year - Tal Cohen.
Lesson of 2012: Israel's progressive Jews will continue to dissent
Israel’s progressives represent one of the deepest values of Jewish history: the value of dissent. For millennia, Jews flourished without having a politburo that told us how to think – and we will not let either Netanyahu and Lieberman or Rabbis Ovadia Yosef and Dov Lior dictate to us what to think, speak, or write.
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Carlo Strenger is a philosopher and existential psychoanalyst, author of seven books, most recently The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Centuryand Israel, Einführung in ein schwieriges Land He serves as Professor at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University; on the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists; the Seminar of Existential Psychoanalysis in Zurich, and the Scientific Board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation, Vienna in addition to maintaining a part-time practice in existential psychoanalysis. Strenger is an outspoken defender of Classical Liberalism,and advocates a sane and just solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He regularly writes in Haaretz, Israel's leading liberal Newspaper, where he runs a blog, 'Strenger than Fiction', Britain's The Guardian, Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and The New York Times. For more info see Strenger's Website
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