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The rebellion of Israel’s second army
Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi hands over to his successor a ‘policing army’ that is more autonomous, settler-led, and lethal than ever.
By
Yagil Levy
December 26, 2022
Hebron settlers hold Purim parade while Palestinians locked down for coronavirus
Dismissing virus fears, Israeli soldiers and police accompanied 250 settlers in Hebron's city center while preventing Palestinian onlookers from approaching.
By
Oren Ziv
March 10, 2020
Why are Israeli liberals suddenly courting a far-right nationalist?
Liberman’s political maneuvering may just bring about King Bibi’s downfall, but that doesn’t mean secular liberals should forget the reasons they opposed him all these years. Avigdor Liberman has, over the past decade, exerted a greater impact on Israel’s political discourse than any other lawmaker. In just a few years, he made once unthinkable ideas — such as…
By
Edo Konrad
May 30, 2019
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WATCH: Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian for filming them
Soldiers arrest a Palestinian man before shooting his brother in the knee with a rubber bullet. Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian volunteer with an Israeli human rights organization before shooting his brother in the knee with a rubber bullet earlier this month. The incident took place on February 10 in the West Bank village of…
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Edo Konrad
February 20, 2017
Israelis post anti-Arab racism online every 46 seconds, study finds
A new study shows that Israeli Jews publushed 675,000 racist posts on social media in 2016 — a dangerous increase from 2015, when only 280,000 such posts were published. Every 46 seconds an Israeli Jew publishes a racist or inciting comment against Arabs on Facebook and other social networks, a new study finds. According to the Arab…
By
Rami Younis
February 13, 2017
The problem with Israel’s heroism addiction
The flip side of Israel’s need for heroes created in uniform, weapon in hand, is the urge to preserve the ideals associated with them and to shield them from criticism — the ramifications of which have become disturbingly clear in the case of Elor Azaria. “A nation without heroes is a house without doors.” So says the…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
January 13, 2017
Deputy defense minister wants to give IDF soldiers a license to kill
Eli Ben Dahan, who once called Palestinians ‘subhuman,’ wants soldiers to be able to freely shoot to kill. Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan is reportedly working on submitting a bill proposal that will grant soldiers a license to kill, according to a Channel 2 news report that aired Saturday evening. The bill will allow…
By
Haggai Matar
January 7, 2017
Elor Azaria and the army of the periphery
From the army’s perspective, Azaria’s guilty verdict ostensibly answers the critique that it is unable to deal with soldier violence against Palestinians — or that it doesn’t want to. But there is one reason and one reason only that the lowly soldier was indicted to begin with. An Israeli military court handed down a guilty…
By
Edo Konrad
January 4, 2017
+972 Magazine’s 20 most-read posts of 2016
From Shimon Peres’ dark side to Donald Trump at AIPAC to Airbnb in settlements, here are the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 20. Why I had to leave Israel’s Foreign Ministry As a former Israeli ambassador, Ilan Baruch never expected just how badly the country’s situation would deteriorate, with the…
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December 23, 2016
One almighty military order and 49 dead Palestinians
Sixty years on, the Kafr Qasim massacre is a stark reminder of the buried past of the world’s ‘most moral army.’ By Sam Bahour If your Palestinian neighbors and friends seem slightly on edge today, please excuse them. October 29th brings back horrific memories to Palestinians everywhere, young and old. It was 60 years ago…
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+972 Magazine
October 29, 2016
The camera that made Elor Azaria ‘man of the year’
If B’Tselem volunteer Imad Abu Shamsiyeh hadn’t been in Hebron with his camera ready that March morning, we would have long forgotten about just another ‘neutralized terrorist,’ and none of us would have ever heard the name Elor Azaria. By Yael Marom If an Israeli soldier shoots a Palestinian in the head in Hebron, and there’s no…
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+972 Magazine
October 2, 2016
Nearly half of Israeli Jews support extrajudicial killings, poll finds
One in five self-described ‘leftists’ support the actions of Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier on trial for shooting a disarmed Palestinian attacker in the head. Nearly half of Jewish Israelis support the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian attackers who no longer pose a threat, according to a poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) on Wednesday. Forty-seven…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 14, 2016
A once-in-a-decade show trial
The military trial of Elor Azaria is part of a purification ritual, one that takes place every 10 years, as if everything in between is just fine. By Hagai El-Ad Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was quoted last month as saying that, “we can’t reach a situation in which a soldier has to ask for…
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September 7, 2016
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