Gideon Levy

There is no place in the territories where the essence of the truth and the evil of the settlement enterprise is revealed as in the City of the Patriarchs.

Military service cannot suit everyone. The notion that it's possible to force every young man to pass three of his best years in a violent, oppressive, hierarchical system is unrealistic.

How will it ever be possible to lead a social or political struggle here if the willingness to pay a personal price for a collective goal stops at Ben-Gurion International Airport?

There are no democratic means to prevent the Haredim or Arabs from becoming a larger portion of society in the future. Campaigns to reduce the birthrate are no less outrageous than the concepts of population transfer and ethnic cleansing.

The man who was an active partner to the policy of boycotting the Palestinian unity government, which was established after democratic elections - a boycott that contributed to the military coup in Gaza - is not beginning his mission with clean hands.

Years of efforts to encourage victims of sexual assault to summon the courage to complain suddenly collapsed. From now on, every Hebrew woman will know: Mazuz?s state will not come to your defense, particularly when a public official is involved.

If there is a lesson from the fiasco in Gaza, here it is: Starving, drying up and blocking aid do not sear the consciousness and do not weaken political movements. On the contrary.

Mofaz is the last of the government ministers whose security advice the committee should solicit. As chief of staff and as defense minister, he caused Israel enough damage.

There is no difference, in principle or morally, between the Iranian original and his Israeli imitators.

Israel is nostalgic for its most dangerous leader, for the person who caused it more damage than anyone else.

Peretz can bridge the gap between the elites, who fear Benjamin Netanyahu, and the masses, who are about to vote for him.

This protest is just as hollow as the leadership against which it is aimed. Bereaved parents mourned their children from the stage, but no one suggested how to prevent the next war.

Weren't we in precisely this same horror film, with the very same script, 14 years earlier? Will the committee have something to say about this?

It is not easy to become alienated from a flag that once was your flag. It is much easier to love it, to be proud of it.

The majority of Israeli citizens voted for a centrist government and received one of the most extreme right-wing governments in the history of Israel instead.

Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that "there is no partner" for peace and that "the time isn't right" to deal with our enemies. Today, the new reality before our eyes leaves no room for doubt and the tired refrain that "Israel supports peace" has been left shattered.

Anyone interested in knowing how infuriating the demand not to publish the Winograd testimonies is should read those that have already been published.

In their pointless and fruitless visits, world leaders only perpetuate and entrench the conflict that most threatens world peace.

Ayalon's success in the polls reveals more about us and our loss of direction than it does about him. Again, as in the Third World, the only hope to arise comes in the form of a former general and head of the security services, whose entire glory derives from the years he brandished a sword and whose current views are hollow.

Netanyahu, Yisrael Beiteinu, the National Religious Party, the settlers, Kadima and all those who reject negotiation should now be called "fans of the binational state." If it becomes a just state, perhaps this is good news. But is this really what the majority wants?

The prime minister is paralyzed in all parts of his body. He can still pose for photographs with his friends from Binyamina and joke with Condoleezza, but the opportunity of his lifetime is slipping from his hands.

Amir Peretz again was caught in failure. Nimble media photographers managed to catch the defense minister looking through binoculars whose cap was still on.

Is it not more correct to ask today, after all the huge investments and the blood spilled in vain: Who should be compensating whom?

The fact that the IDF kills children with such a light hand should trouble us no less than the reserves of war supplies in the North.

Those who say the end to kissing and flirting is upon us employ cheap populist demagoguery to undermine the important ruling in Ramon's trial.