Aner Shalev

A country that uses the Holocaust to justify its establishment but preys on refugees and neglects Holocaust survivors undermines the basis for its own existence.

A government that expects the poor to take pity on the rich has no right to exist.

In his battle with chronic pain, my friend finds himself at the mercy of prejudices about the drug that could help him most.

Lapid's recent compromises on integrating the Haredim into the IDF may end up including nothing more than granting them with a full draft exemption.

Cafe Moment suffered a terror attack in 2002 that led to its closure. Today, there is no need for an attack to deliver the deathblow on secular Jerusalem.

Budgets and services from the settler and ultra-Orthodox states, including cheap construction and low-cost housing, must be duplicated in the State of Israel. This is also the way to improve our standing in the world.

We must not ignore the exciting developments hinting that the battle has not yet been decided.

Surveys show that more than one-third of the public has not yet decided which party to support. The party of the uncertain and the despondent is therefore the largest of all, and it is worth some 40 seats in the Knesset.

The romance between Netanyahu and Hamas began in 1996. Without Hamas, Netanyahu would not have been elected prime minister.

For the first time, there is a chance that a female discourse less violent and more intelligent than the macho male version will take center stage in Israeli politics.

The longer a would-be candidate takes his time, the more his stock goes up. We prefer fog to clear skies. Certainty wears off quickly for us. The eternal Waiter always triumphs.

It is likely that those Netanyahu supporters who despise Lieberman, or those Lieberman supporters who look down on Netanyahu, will have a very hard time voting for a joint ticket.

For years right-wing parties have masqueraded behind centrist rhetoric, and this election is even more extreme. It's time to rip off the masks. There is no split on the left and there is no center-left party in Israel.

The Israeli plane has no pilot. Instead of a prime minister, we have a dangerous vacuum, one that is filled at any given time with some momentary whim.

A normal politician moves from words to deeds. Netanyahu moves from words to drawings and toys. At the height of his speeches, the renowned word virtuoso actually abandons words − whether to a duck, a magic triangle or a childish drawing of a bomb.

During these days of awe at the start of the Jewish year 5773, we must all be Politics and Government.

The endless chatter about Iran directed all eyes to the East. But the arrows of the fall attack were actually headed to the West.

One doctor told me that two of his patients died because the health organization refused to approve a certain check-up.

Its rabid anti-Israeli rhetoric allows the ayatollahs' cruel regime to distract the masses from their real problems.

The entire world will be holding its breath in August, September and October, and waiting submissively for a decision from King Bibi that will decide its fate.

Hopefully Netanyahu's attack on himself won't succeed and Israel will be saved.

When someone is lightly wounded by a Qassam rocket in the south, there's a big fuss. But when people die unnecessarily at our hospitals, no one cares a whit.

By joining the coalition, Kadima gave a green light to this violent crackdown on the social-justice protest, the very same one it arrogantly promised to lead.

The goal of that dark coalition is to perpetuate our isolation, to make us focus on our own personal affairs. But the personal is general. That is why we demonstrate.

Israeli politics is a special species of mutant. It is not the art of dealing with conflicts, but the art of avoiding them.

Israel and the Western world must support the Syrian and Iranian people in their struggle against tyrants who slaughter their own people.