Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off his campaign this weekend with interviews to the major TV channels. In the following segment, taken from the interview aired this evening on Channel 1, he tells reporter Ayala Hasson that he did not vote in favor of the disengagement plan from Gaza, when in fact he did. He indeed resigned later on, but only after the disengagement was a done deal, as Channel 10 journalist Raviv Drucker reminds us [Heb].    

The High Court of Justice re-validated a law defining the demolition of settlements as "traumatic" – and denying claims that demolition of Palestinian houses is just as bad. A couple of years ago I was asked to participate in a televised debate (Hebrew) with a right-wing conscientious objector, Avi Biber, who became famous when he dramatically abandoned his unit while dismantling settlements in the Gaza Strip as part of the Disengagement Plan. One of the less obvious disagreements we had revolved around the question of how to define our separate acts: While I argued that we both have in common a belief…

A new YouTube video from the settler movement suggests that without Gaza, Israel can annex the West Bank and still maintain a Jewish majority. Only recently, Gaza was sacred land to the same movement. Does this indicate a strategic shift? By Eyal Clyne || Translated from Hebrew by Ofer Neiman. || Co-posted with Jnews. A. Is the annexation of the West Bank imminent? “Yesha Council”[1] and "My Israel"[2] have recently circulated a propaganda video clip as part of a campaign addressing the old Israeli-left argument, that "if a two-state solution is not established soon, Israel will lose its Jewish demographic…

Gori will forever remain in my memory, like an image from some strange dream. I don't necessarily mean a bad dream, there's something very delightfully bewitching about this city, as there is about everywhere in Georgia, but it's spooky nonetheless, especially on a cold winter's day. Gori is famously spooky for being Stalin's hometown and featuring both a statue of the man and a shrine-like museum dedicated to his life, but the spookiness begins already in the suburbs. They are treeless, streetless, made up of thousands of cookie-cutter abodes set in exact rows. These are no suburbs. These are refugee camps set up…