Ari Shavit

Ari Shavit

Ari Shavit is a senior correspondent at Haaretz Newspaper and a member of its editorial board.

Latest Articles by Ari Shavit
Dorit Beinisch - Olivier Fittousi - 05012012
Supreme Court President Beinisch will be remembered for her battles

The first female president of the Supreme Court's professional life story is the story of the interface between justice and Israeli politics of the last generation.

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shalit - AFP - October 12 2011
Gilad Shalit exchange deal is a victory for old-fashioned Israeli solidarity

Israel's main asset in human and security terms is the sense of mutual responsibility that its citizens and soldiers feel toward one another.

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Netanyahu, Abbas, Obama
Obama, Abbas and Netanyahu squandered their golden opportunity

The mistakes of the past 30 months have created an abysmal gap between the Palestinians' expectations, the Israelis' needs and the international community's perceptions.

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Cairo Israel Embassy – Reuters – Sept. 9, 2011
Arab Spring showed its real face in attack on Israeli embassy in Egypt

Obama busy with West Bank settlements and the 1967 borders, didn't put in the time and effort for a genuine Marshall Plan that could save the land of the Nile.

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A new peace is needed

Now that the old peace is dead, we must quickly replace it with a new, realistic peace.

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Netanyahu runs his bureau like the corner grocery

When the fog clears and the Eshel case is behind us, Netanyahu is going to have to make some order in his work environment. After years of wretched mediocrity, it's time for excellence in the Prime Minister's Bureau.

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No more white knights in Israeli politics

This is a emergency call-up, ladies and gentlemen. This time it's really a battle for our home.

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Israel's Putin is grotesque and shameful

Their Putin is a modern-day czar, while our Putin is a grotesque czar; their Putin gives their country a troublesome kind of power; our Putin severely weakens his country's power.

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