Bibi or not Bibi?
Can Israel do without Netanyahu?
Israel
Thursday
Kushner may not be Kissinger, but at least he’s not Kerry
The personal Middle East diplomacy of the president’s son-in-law may have helped move things forward for the first time in many years
Tuesday
Bibi’s new alliance has caused an Israeli identity crisis
By welcoming Otzma Yehudit, he has ceded the moral highground
Tuesday
Bibi blows up Israel’s Central European alliance
The Israeli premier clashes with Poland over the Holocaust
Wednesday
Is Benny Gantz the man who could topple Netanyahu?
A former general has emerged as a challenger to the Israeli Prime Minister
Monday
Why is Ilhan Omar still on the House Foreign Relations Committee?
The Minnesota congresswoman cluelessly trots out anti-Semitic tropes
Ilhan Omar is telling the truth. How is that anti-Semitic?
Money talks in American politics – of course some of it is from the Israel lobby
Wednesday
Why aren’t Democrats denouncing Rashida Tlaib’s blatant anti-Semitism?
She went after people who support anti-BDS legislation for who they are
Tuesday
Boycott Christmas!
Don’t be fooled by the Zionist narrative!
Wednesday
Airbnb’s boycott and Facebook’s child bride: the moral vacuum of the internet
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be adequately explained by greed
Thursday
Why is this Israeli drama such a hit with Palestinians? Because it tells the truth
‘The rule in our household is: if a TV series hasn’t got subtitles, it’s not worth watching,’ a friend told me the other day. Once this approach would have been both extremely limiting and insufferably pompous. In the era of Netflix and Amazon Prime, though, it makes a lot of sense. There’s something about English-speaking TV — especially if it’s made in the US — that tends towards disappointment. Obviously there have been exceptions: The Sopranos; Band of Brothers; Breaking Bad; Game of Thrones. But too often, what’s missing is that shard of ice in the creative heart that drama needs if it’s to be truly exceptional. American drama is
Sunday
A storm’s a coming for Trump over the ‘dirty ops’ allegations
So aides to Donald Trump, the Observer reports, retained an Israeli intelligence organization to launch a ‘dirty ops’ campaign against two former national security officials in the Obama administration, Colin Kahl and Ben Rhodes. Both happen to have been involved in the negotiations about the Iran deal and the idea seems to have been to … Read more
