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Get email notification for articles from Ronit Marzan Follow Apr. 18, 2021 11:35 PM Four foundational experiences influenced leadership and voting patterns among Israeli Arabs: Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, which Arabs call the Nakba; the bloody Land Day of 1976; the second intifada that began in 2000; and the Arab Spring uprisings that started in 2011. After 1948, Israel’s Arab citizens were represented by clan leaders who operated through satellite parties (lists) of the Zionist parties. Many called this generation of leaders the “submissive generation.” LISTEN: Inside Wal...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The Iranian attack, the third in about six weeks, came in response to a number of attacks attributed to Israel on Iranian vessels and took place after the Israeli attacks had been made public for the first time. The NYT, unencumbered by Israeli censorship, could refer to the Israeli attacks as a fact, and report that Israel had asked for the Americans’ help specifically in protecting the last vessel to be attacked, Hyperion Ray. Perhaps this is why the ship was only very slightly damaged and could continue sailing. The missile fired a...

Benny Nuriely Apr. 15, 2021 11:33 PM Try to imagine people who are trying on a daily basis to convince us that the government has to give the power and money to the wealthy, to deny workers the ability to exercise political influence and to deny the poor support in order to push them into the hands of employers. These mantras of hate are foreign to most of us, but in Israeli there is an active multi-armed octopus that is spreading them. The head of the octopus is the Kohelet Economic Forum. The forum was established in 2012 by academics and political entrepreneurs from various fields. The mai...

Get email notification for articles from Yaniv Kubovich Follow Apr. 14, 2021 6:16 AM June 6, 2005, just after 6 A.M. At the Qalqilyah checkpoint is a long line of Palestinian cars waiting to take passengers from the West Bank to Israel, for work. Facing them are soldiers from Caracal, a combat battalion. One sees two Palestinian women entering a taxi that’s moving toward Israeli territory. She asks them for ID, and a scuffle breaks out. The commander of the checkpoint, Lauren Dagan Amos, one of the first female soldiers in Caracal, runs to help the soldier. “In the midst of the struggle ...

Get email notification for articles from Amos Harel Follow Apr. 14, 2021 6:15 AM Most of the people who brought us an unnecessary, preventable war in the Gaza Strip in summer 2014, 51 days with no victory, are also involved in what’s happening today – a steady, dangerous slide toward the possibility of an even worse military conflict with Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz and Aviv Kochavi were all there that wretched summer, though the latter two have since been promoted – respectively, from chief of staff to defense minister and from head of Military Intelligence to chief of staff...