Netanyahu didn’t create the norm of benefits at the expense of wealthy people or the state. He simply took it to new heights, allegedly of course. The journalists defending him on a daily basis have lost their decency and common sense.
Author: Ben-Dror Yemini
Ben-Dror Yemini is a senior journalist with the Hebrew daily Maariv who lectures about the spread and impact of anti-Israel propaganda.
Court’s decision to strike down the law allowing mass ultra-Orthodox exemptions from military service is an important milestone against political cynicism in which a minority repeatedly prevents the State of Israel from being a slightly more decent and civilized country.
The Zionist left and the same right should present a clear and united stance when it comes to manifestations of anti-Semitism: Neither forgiveness nor understanding, and definitely not justification. But instead of condemning the prime minister’s son over his Facebook post, the Right is pointing an accusing finger at the Left.
As much as the Goldin family is hurting, they are wrong—putting pressure on Hamas will only make it more popular in Gaza and the international community, and as much as it pains to say it, it is not right to endanger the lives of more Israelis for the return of dead bodies and people who entered Gaza of their own volition. The Shalit deal’s mistakes must not be repeated.
The nuclear agreement—misleadingly presented to the world as the lesser of evils—allowed Iran to grow rich and expand its influence in the region. Now, Tehran is taking over Syria, and the distant enemy is coming closer to Israel.
Seeing their voters as a mob looking for its pound of flesh, right-wing politicians allow themselves to make foolish decisions to appease that mob—like canceling the Western Wall plan and passing the Regulation Law—because they know the High Court will overturn them.
While recent events make it seem like Israeli Arabs are the enemy from within, the hatemongers are only a loud minority. We must support the sane, moderate majority and take a firm hand against the violent instigators and inciters.
With his impressive list of achievements, our talented prime minister should have led Israel and himself too much better and higher places. But as a hedonist, his appetite grew, and the personal interest repeatedly came before the national interest.
The State of Israel and its citizens need a full-time prime minister, not someone who divides most of his time between the interrogation rooms and his lawyers. The state’s best interest comes before the leader’s best interest.
The interfaith dialogue has proved itself. That doesn’t mean it will last. Turkey’s Erdogan, Hamas, and Sheikh Raed Salah will search for any way to sabotage the agreements and renew the riots. It just means that, sometimes, it’s better to think about less political channels of dialogue.
Terrorism doesn’t seek peace, it doesn’t seek two states for two people or an end to the occupation. Terrorism appears because of incitement, hatred and blood libels. It seeks destruction and ruin, and it will find any excuse to reappear, both when the Palestinians are suffering because of the occupation and when they are thriving despite the occupation.
Why do Muslims insist on being inferior? Why are they refusing to see themselves as equals? They’re allowed to call for the destruction of others, publish anti-Semitic cartoons and attach electronic bracelets to every Mecca pilgrim, but when others do so, it’s ‘an offense to Muslim honor.’
As far as George Soros is concerned, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism have become one ideology—hatred for Israel.
Sheikh Raed Salah is following in Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini’s footsteps with the ‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’ libel, which asserts that the Jews are planning to replace the Temple Mount mosques with the Third Temple. Whoever thinks brainwashing doesn’t work is wrong, and Friday’s terror attack is proof.
The organization’s director says soldiers’ testimonies of war crimes are not being investigated. But when the Military Advocate General wanted to investigate the few testimonies that do point to a suspected offense, Breaking the Silence demanded protection of sources.
