Yitzhak Laor

The totalitarianism gaining the upper hand in our lives has to do with the fact that there is no real difference between 'center-left' Kadima and Yisrael Beiteinu on the extreme right.

Defining the occupying state as the owner of "state lands" on the West Bank has been the greatest tragedy of generations.

Yeshiva students are a favorite issue for Israelis. They help us be modern. Core studies? They don't have any, and we do, so our English is fluent, our math brilliant, and the matriculation certificates of our children reflect a broad education.

To believe in a journalist, you have to believe in democracy - that is, in the power to stop the government.

At Harish, environmental and coexistence organizations can at long last be transformed from Internet non-profits into a Jewish-Arab political movement.

The state of Israel is not a state of all its citizens. That is well known. But when they say it is a state of all its Jews, nobody has a clue as to what "all its Jews" would mean without its ongoing provocations against those who are not Jewish.

Israel should take a harder look at Spain and Germany, who have accepted heterogeneity as a way of coping with the future, on many levels.

Supporters of the left can be found mainly on Facebook and on Internet petitions while Israel's streets are silent.

Israel does not want to recognize the Palestinian minority within its borders because it seeks to continue to grant privileges to Israeli Jews and to Diaspora Jews, at the expense of the cheap labor, land and water of its Palestinian citizens.

The right wing's self-righteousness that flooded the media did not succeed in blurring the clear fact: Ariel is a settlement, not an Israeli community.

With the Israeli economy continues to import more and more cheap laborers, the immigration police ought to keep a close watch on them and insist that they don't fall in love.

Israel is gradually relinquishing the rule of law and becoming a tribe.

Kahanism is flourishing in Israel's universities.

Our leaders were rescued from the quagmire once again. Once again, the pundits have shed the cloak of liberalism and returned to the sycophantic glory days of Operation Cast Lead.

In no time, our leaders got addicted to a new kind of landlordship - a world with a single power where Israel enjoyed the status of a regional power under the aegis of the patron.

The most prominent failure of the state of Israel after 62 years is the lack of courage within the mechanism known as the state to let up a little on the national pressure.

Jewish communities for the most part do not dare to defend the victims of the 'new' European racism.

Even when security reasons were not used in the usual demagogic manner, the removal of Arabs from territories inhabited by Israelis has always been described as 'security.'

The time has come to acknowledge that the most important undertaking of the State of Israel, within narrow or expanded borders, has always been to maintain the supremacy of the Jews.

The man in the wheelchair rolled into court was merely one of tens of thousands of Nazi collaborators.

A unilateral Palestinian statehood could give the left a chance to fight against Israel's politics of force.

The system preserving this apartheid is more ruthless as it is equipped with the lie of being 'temporary.'

The gap between the extreme right's lunacy and 'the mainstream' of Israeli politics has been eliminated.

The avaricious sortie by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his courtiers to Paris was sponsored by a state in which a third of all children live under the poverty line.