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Why Israel picks fights with Hezbollah
And why it will probably pick another one before too long. After Hezbollah’s fatal attack on Israeli soldiers Wednesday, the two enemy sides are in a rare configuration: they’re even. Israel killed six Hezbollah guerrillas and an Iranian general on January 18, so Hezbollah killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seven more, and now they’re…
By
Larry Derfner
January 30, 2015
In ceasefire talks, Netanyahu is letting Hamas win Gaza war
The great mystery is: Why? In the Cairo ceasefire talks, Netanyahu is snatching diplomatic defeat from the jaws of military victory. I have no explanation for why he’s doing this and I have yet to hear a convincing one. There must be something Netanyahu knows that no one else does. Otherwise his concessions at the…
By
Larry Derfner
August 15, 2014
The ‘terror tunnels’: Another Israeli self-fulfilling prophecy
There were non-lethal ways to preempt Hamas’ underground attacks, but the Netanyahu government rejected them all. Here is the current, ostensibly airtight rationale for whatever the IDF chooses to do in Gaza: armed Hamas militats are coming up out of tunnels that start in Gaza and end not far from kibbutz and moshav communities on…
By
Larry Derfner
July 21, 2014
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‘There was no generous offer’: A history of peace talks
Raviv Drucker, a prominent journalist who co-hosts a well-known television magazine program on Channel 10, wrote a tough blog post in which he takes some of Israel’s best known journalists to task for presenting a completely erroneous interpretation of the Palestinian position regarding a negotiated agreement for a two-state solution. I have translated his post…
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Lisa Goldman
April 26, 2014
Which American billionaire advocated transferring ‘every last Palestinian?’
A friend of Netanyahu presents his own solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nahum Barnea, one of Israel’s leading political and diplomatic correspondents, had an interesting item at the end of his weekly feature in Yedioth Ahronoth. The Hebrew version is at the end of this post; this is my translation: A few years back, a known…
By
Noam Sheizaf
January 12, 2014
Consensus wisdom: The boycott of Israel is working
The only way to stop its spread is to end the occupation, say a growing number of prominent voices (none of whom, by the way, support the boycott). From reading my digital mail, I see that a lot of people who say they oppose the occupation also oppose the boycott against Israel, and not…
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Larry Derfner
June 24, 2013
Why it’s time to discuss the one-state solution
Secular, binational, and more: there are plenty of one-state models that can and should be discussed. But what’s becoming increasingly clear to figures from both the right and the left is that the feasibility of the two-state solution must be reconsidered. By Yoav Kapshuk It is time to start a public discussion about possible and…
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September 18, 2012
The miraculous antiwar uprising of the Israeli establishment
An uprising within the Israeli establishment is preventing an insane war from being started. In how many other countries could such a thing happen? This is a proud moment for Israel’s democracy. People don’t realize what a miracle is taking place in this country. A revolt by the Israeli military/intelligence establishment and Israel’s best reporters, helped along by President Shimon Peres and ultimately enabled by the…
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Larry Derfner
August 10, 2012
The problem with Netanyahu’s judgment, when it comes to WMD
Why was a paragraph removed from a Haaretz op-ed concerning an attack on Iran? Dr. Avner Cohen, the unofficial historian of the Israeli nuclear program, noticed today that a paragraph that appeared in the Hebrew print edition of a Haaretz op-ed by Sefi Rachlevski revealed for the first time a few details of a little-known incident from 1998.…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 7, 2012
Is an Israeli cover-up keeping Jonathan Pollard in prison?
The Americans are convinced Pollard – who spied on behalf of Israel in the 1980’s – didn’t act alone, and have made it clear that if Israel gives up the other name(s), he can go free. It’s been a mystery for many years why Jonathan Pollard is still in prison, why U.S. president after president refuses to pardon him. The reason in…
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Larry Derfner
April 11, 2012
Tzipi Livni, another moral casualty of the Gaza war
This week she lost the leadership of Kadima, but Livni lost her voice when she supported Operation Cast Lead – and she wasn’t alone. In the euphoria immediately after Obama’s election night in 2008, and with Israel’s own election four months away, I wrote that “if there’s any Israeli candidate who can catch the fire he lit, it’s Livni.” While granting that she wasn’t…
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Larry Derfner
March 30, 2012
Bloggingheads: Will Israel strike Iran?
In recent weeks discussion has grown about the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Israeli media, politicians, and American officials have all spoken publicly about the advisability and ramifications of such a strike. Does this signal a real possibility for such an attack, or simply political posturing? Watch +972 Magazine’s Larry Derfner…
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Larry Derfner
November 12, 2011
Finally, Iran plan wakes Israel up to “the Israeli threat”
A storm of protest has arisen against a plan by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. This has been the Israeli media’s finest hour, and it started with a great journalist’s column. In all the rising volume over Netanyahu and Barak’s plot to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilties, by far…
By
Larry Derfner
November 2, 2011
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