Yoel Marcus

Calling all eligible voters: Don't be dazzled by the government's propaganda, which tells us how good we have it and how strong we are.

In a Faustian bargain, Kadima's Shaul Mofaz sold his soul in exchange for a few months in power.

Shaul Mofaz is no great ideologue, he lacks charisma and has made no important statements or brilliant comments during his time in politics - yet he still deserves a grace period.

An attack on insane Iran is out of our league and could prove a tragedy for generations to come.

The Haredi minority aspires to force its beliefs on the majority, and then there’s a tiny minority that aspires to force Greater Israel on the majority, whatever the cost.

Where in the world nowadays is there any protest in which they don’t accuse Israel of some sin and burn its flags

Maybe we overdid it with the attack on the Mavi Marmara; but sending a ship with thugs to breach the closure of Gaza was in itself an act of piracy.

The bitter experience of the failed attempt in 1994 to free captive soldier Nachshon Wachsman continues to haunt us. Human life remains sacred to us – wouldn’t it be best to stay patient and get back Gilad Shalit alive?

The reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah is not necessarily a negative development, if the Palestinians are bent on an agreement. It creates an opening for an Obama initiative to create order here, while neutralizing terrorism.

Rulers who are just as strong as Bibi are unable to deal with the waves of mass protests and the fear that tens of thousands of Palestinians will march to our borders has always hovered over us as an abstract threat.

The prime minister’s working environment projects pessimism, or even worse: an absence of creativity. When it was suggested that he agree to the Saudi initiative as the basis for an agreement with the Palestinians, his response was, ‘Have you gone crazy?’

The moment the country digests that without permanent borders it is not sustainable, the time will come to talk to its computer.

In appointing Yoav Galant the new IDF chief of staff, Barak, who thinks God chose him to rule, both failed and caused Netanyahu to fail, and now he has to go.

It’s more important for Israel to focus on accelerated negotiations with the Palestinians than to play the hero against Iran.

Ehud Barak is slowly but surely disappearing into oblivion.

In a country established on the principle of integrating Jews from all over the world, the ultra-Orthodox have become a leading force behind racism and division in Israeli society.

Even if every action is justified, our policy – what can't be solved by force should be solved by more force – is not acceptable to America and the European Union.

On executive secretaries, the settlement freeze and terror attack drills.

IDF: No plans for lightning evacuation; rightist MKs warn of civil strife over outpost evacuation.

Army had reportedly drafted plan and begun preparations to evacuate 23 illegal outposts in one day.

The continuation of the Yigal Amir dynasty was planned in cold blood. And it's probably not the end either: They'll be hopping into bed again.

Israelis love mini-kebabs. The trouble is that these supposedly dietetic little nuggets have a way of causing stomach upsets.

Obama wasn't here just to turn a friendly new page, but to make clear the need for a peace agreement with the Palestinians; and to get Israel and Turkey talking again.

A new generation of politicians will hold much of the power in Netanyahu's incoming government and for the foreseeable future.

If Netanyahu could have known in advance that early elections would yield the Lapid-Bennett duo, which is singlehandedly destroying his own vision of government, he would probably have never called them in the first place.

Having narrowly secured his political future in the recent election, it's time for Netanyahu – and the rest of the politicians – to secure Israel's future by restarting peace talks.

Four comments on current events, which show that stupidity is built-in for bodies that are supposed to be the height of intelligence.

The real test for Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid is to prove that he is not a puppet; his 19 seats are a power base if he uses them correctly, particularly at the center of the decision making on issues affecting Israelis' lives.

Supposedly, Netanyahu still retains power, but his ability to govern has been hampered. He has little chance of reaching any political or social achievement. Lieberman is holding him on a short leash. Bibi will not have a base giving him a commanding role.

Nothing is a done deal yet, so go and vote. Or as Bibi put it to Obama: Only Israel's citizens will determine its fate.

Begin, Shamir, Peres, the state's architects, the greatest strategists, never lasted more than two terms.

Whining is not enough for a president. If Peres considers the situation urgent, and he is truly worried about the danger that the extreme right-wing leadership will come to power and lead us to war - he should resign from his position here and now.

The United States doesn't have to prove that it is attentive to Israel. The question is whether Israel is attentive to the United States.

The laws of the country are in order, but the ethics are not. The most important question that should be asked is: What does it say about us that we elect people who are tainted by crimes?

It will be our fault if the extreme right, which says there's no partner for peace and that the world wants Israel exterminated, comes to power.

In hindsight it looks that the Netanyahu government's only achievement is reducing the price of cell phone packages.

Now Barak's saying what Charles de Gaulle said when he resigned from the presidency - he remains at the country's disposal. Although I haven't treated Barak well in my column, I believe and even hope he'll return as defense minister.

It's a shame the lesson wasn't learned in the 1992 Tse'elim disaster that assassinations are not the answer to our situation, neither then nor now, with the assassination of Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. There's no easy fix.

The commitment to Israel's security won't change fundamentally, but some nuances might. We'll still have a friend in the White House, but not an ATM that operates according to Netanyahu's vision. The danger doesn't lie with Barack Obama in his second term, but with Bibi.

The announcement by a valuable Likud member like Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon that he intends to retire from political life stemmed, according to confirmed information, from his having found out about the merger with Lieberman.

The real failure is that no political force, no party, no person has arisen to present serious opposition to Netanyahu- neither in diplomacy nor in social welfare.

Everything Bibi did on his own initiative fell through or wasn't implemented. His final report card is somewhere between 'barely satisfactory' and 'failed.' So now he wants an election before a social protest breaks out, and before the new intifada erupts with a force we've never experienced.

Magazines and newspapers can be saved at home for months and years, while the Internet melts away immediately. You heard, you read, you forgot. Not to mention that it also spreads viruses.

An American president who does not want to set red lines for Iran, as Bibi Netanyahu wants, is correct. A great power will maintain ambiguity in order to have freedom of action.

The United States can survive for another two thousand years without Israel's help; the opposite is not certain.

An attack on Iran is not something that will quickly be over and done with, it is a madly ambitious move. Madness versus madness, a lethal Kramer versus Kramer. If B. and B. continue with their plan, Bibi's savings will be the last thing he'll have to worry about.

We are witnessing the bankruptcy of our society, the undermining of everything the country is supposed to symbolize. It's no longer just the marginal youth, or even the growing violence in nightclubs, where vodka is spilled like water.