Gideon Levy

This price tag meted out by the forum of eight is not much different than the settlers' price tag; it's violent, uncontrolled and seeks vengeance.

Do you really want to live in a country where the heads of the settlement enterprise allocate its lands, plan its nature sites, rule on its laws and are increasingly controlling its lifestyles?

In two days we'll know: If the protest wasn't a protest, the revolution wasn't a revolution. If they stay home, we'll know they aren't deserving of change, any change; they don't deserve a revolution, any revolution.

Even in the midst of the prisoner deal, efforts at brainwashing and sowing fear along with demonization and dehumanization continued in all their strength and ugliness.

Israeli society now wraps itself in a self-righteous cloak of self-praise: How concerned we are about the fate of a single soldier. And what about the fates of many soldiers, of an entire army, an entire people?

The idea that we are members of the chosen people is deeply ingrained, not only in the Jewish tradition, but also among modern and ostensibly secular Israelis.

Not even the trauma of the Yom Kippur War, the mother of all traumas, led to a genuine strategic change for Israel. The generals and pundits will promise that the IDF learned its lessons, but Israel didn't learn anything.

In the Bus 300 affair, Shimon Peres and Yaakov Neeman, entrusted with enforcing the law, proved in the 1980s how they truly related to the rule of law.

Netanyahu shows to the world that Israel wants neither an agreement nor a Palestinian state, and for that matter not peace, either.

The Palestinians are the new Jews and their leaders are amazingly similar to the former Zionist leaders.

How is it that the supposedly new America is continuing to sing the same old songs from its evil past??

On Wednesday, a coalition of Israeli peace organizations published a list of 50 reasons for Israel to support a Palestinian state. Assuming that you only accept five of them, isn't that enough? What exactly is the alternative, now that the heavens are closing in around us?

It's no accident that Peretz is the last remaining survivor of Labor's 'group of eight,' the rest scattered to the winds, and proving him to be the most committed, persistent and serious of them all.

Autumn 2011 is teeming with disasters and our fate has been entrusted to a handful of cynical politicians, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu

There is no social justice in the prime minister's home. Just the opposite. In his own home, the person who must be a perfect role model in word and deed behaves in a manner that makes him unfit for office.

Mass rally planned for September 3 is the test of this country and Israeli society. It has been a long time since these two have faced such a test of maturity and civic behavior.

The masses demonstrating against Israel now are the same masses who once welcomed the Israelis; the hatred has sparked, but it does not have to be this way.

The law enforcement mechanism of the Israel Defense Forces is nothing but a ridiculous simulacrum of a justice system.

Shelly Yachimovich reveales her worldview in weekend Haaretz interview: social democracy without ethics, chauvinism just like that of the right.

Israel tycoons have woken up to the new reality; they're beginning to pay the price for their behavior - their capitalism has been defined as swinish.

Since its establishment, the state of the Israel Defense Forces has lived amicably alongside the State of Israel. Borders between the two states are well-known, and are defensible.

Israel's international standing, especially that of its government, leaves no room for doubt - Netanyahu understands nothing about public relations.

The protest came from a generation we believed was raised on materialism, designer labels, trends and gadgets, united in the church of escapism. A generation comprised partly of drunks and druggies, some of them violent, a generation that had partly also become racist and nationalist

The country is run by non-Israelis who have reformed public transportation, when they haven't traveled by bus for years, they're discussing the housing shortage, when most of them live in luxury apartments.