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Iranian women protest in the streets of Tehran against the results of the 2009 Iranian presidential elections. (photo: Hamed Saber/CC BY 2.0)
Why the Iranian flag still makes me proud
I am a citizen of two countries whose politics I loathe, yet feel very connected to. Why, then, do Iranian national symbols fill me with pride, while Israeli ones make me feel uncomfortable? For the past three days I have been excitedly following reports of the celebrations in Iran following the signing of the nuclear…
By Orly Noy July 17, 2015
A cartoon on the cover of E'temad newspaper in Iran, July 13, 2015.
‘Day of Truth’: What’s the Iranian media saying about the nuclear deal?
Hours before Tehran and the P5+1 powers are expected to announce an historic nuclear deal, much of the Iranian media is expressing excitement, while the opposition worries about domestic backlash. An Iranian media survey. “Fateful Monday,” “The Day of Truth” — those were the headlines of Iranian newspapers Monday morning, indicating the great excitement with…
By Orly Noy July 13, 2015
PM Netanyahu at the memorial ceremony marking 40 years since the Yom Kippur War, September 15, 2013. (Photo: Kobi Gideon / GPO)
Yom Kippur War holds lessons for Netanyahu’s stance on Iran
Netanyahu appears more and more confident that Iran’s stated intentions are not its true intentions. Instead of making parallels to WWII, he should take some lessons from the overconfident, and ultimately catastrophic intelligence assessments that preceded the Yom Kippur War. By Shemuel Meir What can we learn from the Israeli intelligence failure, known in Hebrew as…
By +972 Magazine October 28, 2013
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during UN General Assembly speech, October 1, 2013. (Photo: Kobi Gideon / GPO)
Netanyahu at the UN: Enter the twilight zone
To Israel’s prime minister, 1.2 million of his own country’s citizens do not exist. If that’s not living in an alternate reality, then what is? By Amer Zahr It’s hard to describe what it felt like listening to Benjamin Netanyahu speak Tuesday at the United Nations. Many phrases came to mind: “alternative reality,” “parallel universe,”…
By +972 Magazine October 3, 2013
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