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Israel's isolation is getting deeper, and it will get worse

Haaretz - 21:24 Mar 21, 2024
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Haaretz - 21:23 Mar 21, 2024
The mass killing in Gaza will poison Israeli souls forever

Haaretz - 21:20 Mar 21, 2024

Most Israelis see the horrors perpetrated in Gaza as an unavoidable result of the war on Hamas. But as the imagery of destruction and violence seeps into the consciousness, it cheapens the value of life – Israeli life, too

Tags: Gaza Israeli
Revealed: Recordings of two senior figures in Israel's justice system expose quid pro quo

Haaretz - 20:59 Mar 21, 2024

Months-long correspondence and phone calls between two top figures in Israel's judicial system – a noted judge vying for presidency of the Tel Aviv District Court and the head of the bar association, at the time – reveal dubious deal-making that crossed innumerable red lines. A Haaretz exposé

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If you won't listen to Jonathan Glazer on Gaza, listen to Tony Kushner

Haaretz - 20:19 Mar 21, 2024

'The Zone of Interest' director Jonathan Glazer faced controversy after he denounced the Gaza war in his Oscar acceptance speech. But now, acclaimed Jewish Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has decided to staunchly stand with him

Tags: Gaza Tony Kushner Jonathan Glazer
Israeli army braced for a Yom Kippur attack. A month later, Hamas found a defenseless Gaza border

Haaretz - 20:02 Mar 21, 2024

Unusual Hamas activity along the Gaza border resulted in boosted troop presence during the Yom Kippur fast ■ When violence along the border wound down, the IDF thought it had deterred Sinwar ■ 'He decided to wait,' says a security source. 'He put the army to sleep'

Tags: Gaza Yom Kippur
What kind of Israel will emerge from the 'personal, communal and national trauma' of Oct 7?

Haaretz - 19:35 Mar 21, 2024

Peace activist Maoz Inon lost his parents in the Hamas attack. MK Ahmad Tibi lost 13 family members in Gaza. Protest leader Moran Zer Katzenstein shifted from anti-government protests to the the sexual violence committed by Hamas. All of them had much to say about the shattering impact of October 7
Smotrich backtracks order to cut down settler-planted trees in West Bank

Haaretz - 19:11 Mar 21, 2024

Minister Smotrich reversed the Civil Administration decision, which he heads, after far-right Knesset members attacked the Israeli army for the decision to uproot trees planted by settlers on private Palestinian land
IDF Releases recording of army spotter killed on October 7

Haaretz - 19:08 Mar 21, 2024

Roni Eshel, 19, served at the Nahal Oz base, and was killed on October 7 along with 14 other spotters, with six others taken hostage by Hamas. Her father described the recording, in which she reports the beginning of the Hamas attack, as 'another reminder of the enormity of the army's failure'

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Has Iran become a de facto nuclear state?

Haaretz - 18:38 Mar 21, 2024

Did the events of October 7, and the subsequent war in Gaza, give Tehran a golden opportunity to cross all the relevant thresholds? Keep an eye on the statements by former Iranian official Ali Akbar Salehi
What you need to know, day 167: U.S. drafts UN resolution for cease-fire

Haaretz - 18:01 Mar 21, 2024

Israeli security officials promoting plan to recruit Palestinian leaders with no Hamas affiliation to distribute Gaza aid, despite objections from Hamas and PM Netanyahu ■ IDF: 600 terrorists arrested at Al-Shifa Hospital ■ The U.S. has drafted a UN resolution calling for 'immediate cease-fire tied to release of hostages' ■ House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Netanyahu to address Congress ■ Here's what you need to know 167 days into the war
Tourists may not like Tel Aviv's new City Museum, but it's not for them

Haaretz - 17:55 Mar 21, 2024

At the revamped museum at Tel Aviv's Old City Hall, locals get a chance to cast doubt on the legends of the first modern Hebrew city, and neighboring Jaffa has a voice in every exhibit. Even the Nakba isn't swept under the rug

Tags: Tel Aviv
New zoo in Israel's desert recreates natural habitats – and raises ethical questions

Haaretz - 17:52 Mar 21, 2024

Midbarium provides a home for 100 species, among them, the rare white lion, and serves as a hospital for animals in the region. But can keeping animals in captivity ever be justified – even to preserve near-extinct species?
Sharp fault lines among Jewish and Muslim Americans over Israel-Gaza war, new survey reveals

Haaretz - 17:26 Mar 21, 2024

89 percent of Jewish Americans say Israel's reasons for fighting Hamas are valid, but 44% view the Netanyahu government unfavorably. Among Muslim Americans, 37% hold favorable views of Hamas, and one-in-five U.S. Muslims say how Hamas carried out the Oct. 7 attacks was acceptable
Israel's hasbara is failing. That's good news

Haaretz - 17:20 Mar 21, 2024

Over the years, Netanyahu has persuaded Israelis that soundbites matter more than strategy, glib excuses more than self-reflection or substance. The Gaza war has exposed just how far faith in hasbara has become a liability
The global left needs to renounce Judith Butler

Haaretz - 17:03 Mar 21, 2024

Judith Butler's recent remarks on Hamas and heinously murdered Israeli women remind us that intellectuals can also be imposters

Tags: Judith Butler
The MAGA senator from Jerusalem

Haaretz - 16:37 Mar 21, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu is bad at democracy, national security and foreign relations, but there's one thing he excels at: destroying precious U.S. bipartisanship on Israel
Fearing disruptions, Jewish studies center at Calif. U. stops hosting lectures on Israel

Haaretz - 15:21 Mar 21, 2024

'It's embarrassing, it's a waste of money, it's kind of scary, and it's not befitting a university,' said the head of the Jewish studies center U.C. Irvine, after he decided to stop holding lectures due to disruptions and harassment from pro-Palestinian protesters

Tags: Jewish
U.S. set to bar UNRWA funding through March 2025 – a potential critical blow for the UN agency

Haaretz - 15:18 Mar 21, 2024

Spending bills due to pass Friday include a year-long ban on U.S. UNRWA funding, as the threat of famine in Gaza looms closer. The U.S. provides most of the agency's funds, and officials believe UNRWA only has enough to operate for the next two months

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Israel can - and must - fight Hamas without starving Gazan civilians to death

Haaretz - 14:40 Mar 21, 2024

Israel's sluggish delivery of food aid to Gaza is unconscionable: It is tantamount to torturing civilians, and it is turning even longtime friends into appalled critics. But Israel can relieve this needless suffering, without helping Hamas

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