Opinion The Reason Israel Can't Stop Hamas, Make Peace or Mobilize for Change

Opinion Having Failed to Learn Its Lessons, Holocaust Remembrance Day Doesn’t Belong in Israel's Reality

Opinion Annexation Will Free Israel From the Fake Commitment to Liberty and Equality

Opinion This Is What Happens When You Stay Silent as the Far Right Rises to Power

Germany once greeted the extreme right with apathy and scorn. We’ve accepted ours with apathy and silence – a troublesome silence that makes a statement

Opinion No General Can Save Us

In siding with Benny Gantz, Israel's leftists are chasing a dream of victory; soon, it'll become a nightmare

Opinion Dumbing Israel's Elections Down for the Floating Voters

Battalions of pollsters and consultants and experts are after the stupid or 'politically challenged,' the army of the people who do not know how to vote who are worth about 10 Knesset seats

Opinion What Happens When Bibi Is Gone?

We’ve resigned ourselves to the idea that government is corrupt. Take a lesson from the settlement division. We’ll find ourselves facing the Bennetts, Shakeds and Regevs

Opinion So What if I Stole?

Netanyahu won’t let a corruption trial happen no matter what it costs – war, casualties, threats or lies. Besides, Israelis no longer seek moral justification for their country’s actions

Opinion Israel Is Ripe for a Strong Leader

Democracy, or whatever you want to call the political system we have here, exists only in appearances. It is, in fact, roadkill

Opinion If We Israelis Were Palestinians, What Would We Do?

During the British Mandate, we wanted the British out, and we shot them, hanged them, and blew them up. If they had had women and children here, we would have killed them, too

Opinion The Government's Way: Fear and Hatred

Employing fear is Netanyahu's most authoritative baritone but not to worry, it almost always comes with salvation

Opinion Young Israelis Don't Protest Anymore

A whole generation of persecutors and violators is watching what’s happening in this country, but they’re keeping their hands in their pockets

Opinion In Israel, Little Problems Kill

There's the occupation and there are the corruption probes into Netanyahu. But the electric bicycles that fill the streets have proved to be just as thorny an issue

Opinion You Wanted the ultra-Orthodox to Serve in the Army?

We don't want them in the army in order to share the burden, we want them in the army so they can waste three years of their lives as well

Opinion Dying From Normalcy

We in Israel are so desperate for normalcy that we are willing to convince ourselves that the abnormal is also normal

Opinion Israel Uses Diaspora Jews as Human Shields

Israel is happy to exploit the world’s Jews, but doesn’t care that its actions put them at risk

Opinion Israel's Fear of Empty-handed Palestinian Demonstrators

Empty hands mock soldiers with their bullet-proof vests and helmets. Empty hands instill doubt. Empty hands make a mockery of ‘the few against the many.’

Opinion Don’t Touch My Shoah!

Who will remember the dead of the Holocaust? A past that is not reflected on in the present will disappear in the future

Opinion Israel Is Dominated by a Rabble of Online Commenters

A clerical fascist state will rise here much faster than you think. It won’t be Mussolini’s Fascist Italy or Hitler’s Nazi Germany. It will be Khomeini’s Iran

Opinion In Israel's Next Election, Things Will Go From Bad to Worse

A million people need an election to declare that decency is no advantage and corruption is no disadvantage. Netanyahu knows that 40 years of indoctrination have done their job

Opinion In Israeli Ethnic Politics, This Is What Revenge Looks Like

‘We’ are what you once called ‘the second Israel’ and today the ‘periphery.’ We understand exactly what bribery is, but we’re punishing you and ignoring it

Opinion Could Israel's Next War Be Connected to the Bribery Recommendations?

Well, we tell ourselves, even cynical Netanyahu wouldn't risk our lives just to stop some investigation – even one that could put him in prison

Opinion Jewboys, Masters and the European Right

Former minister Rafi Eitan’s support for a neo-Nazi party can be ascribed to senility, but perhaps he's simply saying what everyone else is thinking

Opinion The New Israeli Is Frankenstein’s Monster

We have created a new creature. We are the creature that pushed aside Frankenstein, smashed the gate and left the laboratory to wreak havoc in the neighborhood

Opinion Opinion | We're Not Colorblind: Racism Is a Lucrative Industry in Israel

We need foreign workers not just because we won't pick cucumbers. We need them to trample on. Once it was Mizrahim, then it was the Russians, always the Arabs and now the blacks

Opinion The Necessary Legacy

Yigal Amir's vision for Israel — no Arabs, no peace, a state from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River — is now policy. Yitzhak Rabin's true legacy, meanwhile, is the weekly protests outside the attorney general's home

Opinion Erdogan Is Here in Israel

We’re all silent accomplices to a nascent Erdogan state. The schools are being taken care of, the Supreme Court’s turn will come and ultimately there will be the knock on the door at 3 A.M.

Arab-Free Theocracy: Veteran Settler Offers Rare Glimpse Into Religious-Zionist Vision for Israel

Daniella Weiss opens up to the Haaretz writer who called her movement more dangerous than Hezbollah

Opinion The Lesson I Learned From the Holocaust

The Shoah was unique, terrible and happened only once, but the processes that preceded it continue