Readers of an Israeli news site may have noticed a rotating Google advertisement written in Arabic on the English-language news website either in the ad banner across the top of the page or along the side column. While ads that may be considered offensive to the readership of any news site can be filtered out…
In February 2020, a YouTube channel with the name ‘Bringing the truth to light’ uploaded a solitary video entitled: “Exposed: The ‘reenactment’ in the Duma file.” The video points out all the problems in this reconstruction and why it should, perhaps, have supported the defense rather than the prosecution. However, the judges inexplicably accepted it…
I wonder if reading this will cause your heart to break as it broke mine to write it. I wonder if you will feel the rage build up inside you as I did. Tonight is Erev Rosh Hashana. Jews around the world will be praying in whatever context they find most fits their spirituality and,…
Aside from two things, I totally enjoyed Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s UN speech. Those two things, however, made me grimmace with the sheer stupidity of them. In spite of the parts of his speech that make him a pride-inspiring speaker for our country, the whole world is going to emphasize the erroneous parts and will…
Not every journalist who conducts television or radio interviews with individuals important to the state of our nation show tenacity in face of interviewee attempts to slip away from directly answering difficult questions.Asaf Liberman is one of those journalists. He is an impressive professional. Among other influential productions, he is half of the Kalman Liberman…
At the end of his first year as Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett was faced with the second critical decision point of his political life – the first, of course, being whether or not to join Yair Lapid in forming the most unusual coalition this country has ever seen. That is a subject, however, for…
There is a quietly smoldering sense among the Israeli public that the confession that led to the conviction of Amiram Ben Uliel should be thrown out because it was obtained through “enhanced investigation techniques,” i.e. torture. Some people believe him innocent and just want him sent home. Others say that they do not know if…
When I first moved to Israel and began to understand Hebrew (back in the mid 1970s), I was amazed to witness the high degree of public involvement in the political goings on. Canadians did not talk about politics much, at least not much that I heard. And here, Israelis would shout their ideas at each…
Promises made, promises kept, promises set aside — and the betrayal experienced by voters who believed the promises. The anger directed against Naftali Bennett was because of the betrayal so many of his voters felt after he agreed to become part of a coalition that included the Arab party, Ra’am, and the anti-Zionist parties Meretz…
Can this contradiction-laden criminal case, that condemned a young Amiram Ben Uliel to a life in prison, be considered a trial of political expediency carried out mainly because of internal and extenal pressure? Or is he really guilty? Will the justice system conduct a serious self-interrogation, essentially putting itself on trial? Or will the actors…
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