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An Oscar for Ukraine's suffering, a dark portent for Gaza

Haaretz - 20:10 Mar 11, 2024

Here we are, watching Ukraine's first Oscar winner imploring the world to recall the horrors of Ukraine's suffering, slightly over two years past the start of a war. In two years, where will we be with Israel's war in Gaza?

Tags: Gaza Ukraine's Oscar
U.S. assesses Israel will face Hamas resistance for years to come

Haaretz - 19:39 Mar 11, 2024

U.S. intelligence director's worldwide threats report finds 'Netanyahu's viability as leader, as well as his governing coalition of far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties, may be in jeopardy' after Oct. 7 attack and Gaza war
Israel Police investigate three suspected homicides in 24-hour period in multiple Israeli cities

Haaretz - 19:19 Mar 11, 2024

'In the background of the war, women continue to be murdered and suffer violence inside their homes' says a women's rights group on the death of a 48-year-old woman
Literary magazine retracts Israeli writer's essay on coexistence

Haaretz - 18:38 Mar 11, 2024

The retraction from Guernica magazine came after multiple members of staff publicly resigned over the essay by an Israeli author who wrote about her commitment to coexistence and attempts to find mutual understanding with Palestinians after Oct. 7

Tags: Israeli
Gaza at the Oscars: The Jonathan Glazer controversy and what he really said

Haaretz - 17:53 Mar 11, 2024

The Jewish director was widely panned on social media for supposedly saying during his acceptance speech that he was 'refuting his Jewishness' in the wake of Israel's war in Gaza, but the full quote makes it clear that his somewhat awkward phrasing is to blame for the misinterpretation

Tags: Gaza
Israeli army finds 265 percent spike in complaints during Gaza war on lack of equipment and poor conditions

Haaretz - 17:53 Mar 11, 2024

The IDF Ombudsman's annual report on IDF reservists' complaints – devoted mostly to the Gaza war period – found a major increase in complaints on shortages of combat equipment, basic protective gear, and access to shelters

Tags: Gaza
Israel at war: What you need to know – day 157

Haaretz - 17:39 Mar 11, 2024

PM Netanyahu says Israel 'eliminated the number 4 [commander] in Hamas' ■ The U.S. is trying to promote 2-to-4 day lull in Gaza fighting ■ Volley of 15 rockets fired from Lebanon at northern Israel ■ Jordan's foreign minister: restrictions imposed by Israel on Muslim worshippers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque are pushing situation towards 'explosion' ■ Here's what you need to know 157 days into the war

Tags: Israel
In Israel, non-Orthodox citizens serve the state and the state serves the ultra-Orthodox

Haaretz - 16:56 Mar 11, 2024

Every state has certain built-in inequalities, but none with a social contract like Israel's, which has effectively established a caste system reminiscent of medieval Europe
Israel moves to dismantle UNRWA without replacement body to manage aid for Palestinians in Gaza

Haaretz - 16:43 Mar 11, 2024

While Israeli army plans to fully dismantle the UN agency in order to undermine Hamas' civilian rule in Gaza, including through a slander campaign, it's unclear which organization will assume its responsibilities

Tags: Gaza
Could the invasion of Gaza become a never-ending war?

Haaretz - 16:35 Mar 11, 2024

Just like the Russian offensive in Ukraine, Israel's invasion of Gaza could become a war with no end in sight and without the sides being capable of reaching a compromise agreement to end it

Tags: Gaza
Dear Israel, this is your friend Joe: The speech Biden must give to set Israel on the path to peace

Haaretz - 16:15 Mar 11, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden must tell Israelis directly that their future can be much brighter than they're being told. Israel isn't alone, but it must finally take a step to end the malignant status quo with the Palestinians

Tags: Israel
Israel's AG says Pegasus commission asked for details on pending cases, defying High Court's order

Haaretz - 16:01 Mar 11, 2024

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara told the Supreme Court that the commission of inquiry into police use of Pegasus spyware made the request in violation of a court order

Tags: Pegasus
Why the far right in France and Italy rally around an Israel at war

Haaretz - 15:56 Mar 11, 2024

Leaders of Italy and France's far right parties have seized on the Gaza war to ramp up their pro-Israel posturing, despite the neofascist antisemitism entrenched in their political milieu. Jews should reject their 'allyship'

Tags: Italy Israel
Biden's red line: Why U.S. could be days away from suspending arms sales to Israel

Haaretz - 15:17 Mar 11, 2024

After months of speculation that the U.S.-Israel relationship has reached a tipping point, that moment may finally arrive later this month as U.S. President Joe Biden scrambles to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza

Tags: Israel
Israel's Ben-Gurion University rejects proposal for gender-segregated campus to cater to ultra-Orthodox

Haaretz - 15:06 Mar 11, 2024

While supporters of the proposal argued a gender-segregated campus would make higher education accessible to the ultra-Orthodox, opponents said it 'contravened the value of equality' and risked normalizing separation

Tags: Orthodox
Why the director of 'One Life' wasn't afraid to make a feel-good Holocaust movie

Haaretz - 14:08 Mar 11, 2024

In telling the story of Nicholas Winton, the British stockbroker who saved 669 children from the Nazis in prewar Czechoslovakia, James Hawes tried to leave the audience with a feeling of 'we can make things better,' he tells Haaretz
Italy arrests three Palestinians suspected of planning suicide attacks

Haaretz - 13:58 Mar 11, 2024

Police say the three, one of whom is wanted by Israel, set up a cell to mount attacks 'against civilian and military targets on foreign territory'
U.S. progressive groups launch first of its kind campaign against AIPAC's 'dark money'

Haaretz - 13:09 Mar 11, 2024

The 'Reject AIPAC' coalition, featuring two dozen progressive organizations, says it plans to take on AIPAC and its super PAC via electoral, political, digital and organizing strategies
Every Ramadan, Israeli Jews and Palestinian unite for this event. Not this time around

Haaretz - 13:00 Mar 11, 2024

As the Gaza war rages, 'It's not clear that it's right to enter a mosque as a visitor now,' says an operator of Ramadan tours bringing Israeli Jews and Palestinians together. But how did the holy month become such an explosive issue?

Tags: Israeli Jews
IDF chief reprimands general for unauthorized demolition of Gaza university building

Haaretz - 12:20 Mar 11, 2024

The Israeli army said that while Hamas had used the Israa University building in Gaza City for military purposes, it had been demolished without the proper authorization. General Hiram's orders to shell a house in Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct 7, where Israeli hostages were held, is under IDF probe

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