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David Horovitz

The Times of Israel

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Netanyahu never went away after October 7. But now, thanks to Sa’ar, he’s truly back

A bitter critic’s latest political zigzag stabilizes the coalition, leaves Gallant more vulnerable, and means Netanyahu need not worry about...

30.09.2024 40

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If only Netanyahu governed Israel as effectively as he speaks about it

The prime minister delivered a masterful address to a largely enthralled Congress, hailing our nation and scorning its critics. But his public...

25.07.2024 40

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October 7 has now become a war on every front

Under attack from all points of the compass, Israel needs the support and practical assistance of the free world, at a time when it is more viciously...

24.07.2024 20

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After deadly Tel Aviv attack, restraint against Houthis was no longer deemed an option

Security chiefs were hoping hostage deal might deescalate war, including in the north. After Friday’s attack, and Israel’s inevitable...

21.07.2024 50

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Hamas is weakened, but there’s no room for complacency

Gaza has not miraculously receded into the geographical distance, and the IDF is still uncovering tunnels * Netanyahu’s incredible ignorance *...

17.07.2024 20

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Muhammad Deif’s death would be a turning point in the war on Hamas

The elimination of Hamas’s most potent symbol would have a major practical impact on the terror-government’s fighting; it would also mean...

14.07.2024 40

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Shejaiya is at least partly uninhabitable, but troops here say Hamas will return if it can

It’s walking distance from Kibbutz Nahal Oz to this Gaza neighborhood. That proximity proved deadly on October 7. Soldiers are now operating...

10.07.2024 20

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Dangerous incompetents at the heart of government are subverting Israel’s war on Hamas

The release of a Gaza hospital chief back into the terrorists’ embrace is, of course, anybody’s fault but that of the minister in charge...

03.07.2024 30

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Evading national service in the Jewish state is the opposite of authentic Judaism

Belatedly outlawed by the High Court, the norm under which the Haredi community is excluded from its responsibilities is an indefensible aberration...

26.06.2024 30

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As war winds down, diplomacy is paramount, but Netanyahu has other priorities

With Hamas being routed as an organized army yet still a potent guerrilla force, it’s time for intensive work on alternative rule for Gaza....

19.06.2024 20

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If Hamas wanted to end the war, it would take the Israeli offer

As the US says, and the partially published terms indicate, there is an Israeli proposal on the table that would end the war for the return of all...

11.06.2024 60

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Rescue brings rare cause for Israeli joy, before hearts return to 116 hostages still held

Saturday’s daylight IDF operation was only the third such success since the start of the war; common to all three was that the rescued hostages...

08.06.2024 60

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Why Israel needs the hostage-ceasefire deal, and must be wary if Sinwar takes it

Political and security chiefs recognize the urgency of saving the hostages, and the wider potential of a deal, but Hamas’s monstrous leader is...

05.06.2024 60

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Biden’s fateful, carefully timed, and highly complex challenge to Netanyahu and Hamas

It seems the PM is being asked to choose between his own interests and Israel’s, while Hamas is urged to consent to its own demise. But maybe...

02.06.2024 60

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503 Israelis give Netanyahu reason to believe he can retain power, despite October 7

For the first time in more than a year, Netanyahu is again voters’ preferred PM, according to a snap survey. You can be certain that he takes it...

30.05.2024 40

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‘Together we will win’? Israel’s leaders need to get the message, fast

It is hard to recall a period when ties between the political leadership and the defense establishment were so fraught. Or when the absence of...

29.05.2024 80

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A fateful road not taken: Netanyahu seems set to spurn Saudi normalization

A deal would bolster coalition against Iran, could create viable alternative to Hamas in Gaza * Plus: Khan’s rush to injustice, Egypt’s...

22.05.2024 60

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Fearing disaster for Israel, Gantz issues an ultimatum, but he doesn’t have the votes

If necessary, Netanyahu can simply shrug off Gantz and return to his core, 64-strong pre-war coalition. It’s only from within that it can be...

19.05.2024 90

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To save and heal Israel, Netanyahu must quit or at least face the electorate

If he is not prepared to leave public life of his own volition, he should set the date to face the political judgment of the nation that entrusted him...

15.05.2024 100

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As Israel turns 76, little to celebrate… except resilience and a unique history

Israel has never had the luxury of taking its survival for granted, as Oct. 7 proved again. And yet, through millennia, it is always those who try to...

14.05.2024 40

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When an Israeli showed inspirational courage in the singing of a pop song

Facing intense hostility at Eurovision, Eden Golan’s every instinct might have been to turn and run. Instead she soared, and set an example many...

12.05.2024 100

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Biden’s partial weapons freeze deepens existential threat Israel has faced since Oct. 7

The president’s words and planned action were focused on a highly significant planned IDF offensive in Rafah; the diplomatic and practical...

09.05.2024 70

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Sinister Hamas deal would let it keep most hostages, win the war, inflame the West Bank

It took the US more than a day to internalize that Hamas had not in fact accepted a hostages-for-truce proposal. But the text of its...

08.05.2024 60

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All eyes, still, on Hamas

As Israel, the US, the hostages await Hamas’s response to an ‘extraordinarily generous’ Israeli offer, it is a sickening reality...

01.05.2024 40

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The goal of the campus Jew-haters: To render Israel indefensible, in both senses of the word

The aggression against Israel and Jews would not be tolerated if aimed at any other minority; its defenders are unforgivably prioritizing free speech...

24.04.2024 90

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With mild reported strike, Israel aims to bolster coalition to tackle Iran nuke threat

Attack at Isfahan sends warning to Iran, seeks to avoid escalation, reflects US calls for strategic thinking, keeps intact the alliance that helped...

19.04.2024 40

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Passover 5784, reliving ancient history

The Haggadah directs us to retell the exodus story as though we personally had been enslaved. To do that this year, there’s no need to cast the...

18.04.2024 20

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A top ex-general’s radical strategy for tackling Iran, saving hostages, calming the north

Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser and ex-IDF operations chief, has been bitterly critical of Israel’s response to October 7; here...

17.04.2024 50

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Israel warded off a huge Iranian attack, but that success is not the same as a victory

Eight insights into the momentous events of the past few hours, when Iran targeted Israel as never before, Israel defended itself with allied help,...

14.04.2024 50

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Waiting for the rockets, at the opening of a regional conflict

Iran has never previously directly attacked Israel in this way. The prime minister says the IDF is prepared for any scenario. Let’s hope so

14.04.2024 50

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It’s not whether Netanyahu should go, it’s how

He failed Israel with his policies on Hamas before October 7. His presence complicates the necessary defeat of Hamas now. If he won’t move...

10.04.2024 40

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Of course Netanyahu should go – in an orderly process that gives our enemies cause for fear

He failed Israel with his policies on Hamas before October 7. His presence complicates the necessary defeat of Hamas now. If he won’t move...

10.04.2024 10

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Intel report: Qatar’s funding, policies led directly to Oct. 7; it shouldn’t be key mediator

Report by intelligence veterans on behalf of lawyers for Hamas victims’ families says US has long known the scale of Doha’s malign...

08.04.2024 100

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Israel’s major ground war in Gaza is over; the state of war inflicted by Hamas is not

Sunday’s withdrawal of IDF ground forces from Khan Younis marks the end of so-called high-intensity conflict, though Hamas is still standing,...

08.04.2024 60

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Yet another ‘How could this have happened?’ tragedy prompts deep strategic concerns

IDF probe into mistaken targeting of aid workers from an NGO it respected won’t satisfy anyone; incident complicates a war Israel must win,...

03.04.2024 50

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‘The improbable friend’: For true progressives, Israel is an exemplar, says Ritchie Torres

A soundbite-packed interview with the visiting Democratic rising star, a Bronx congressional neighbor of AOC who rejects her ‘genocide’...

02.04.2024 100

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The stunning rise, curious suspension and insistent return of Israel’s star spokesman

As Israel has struggled to make its case to the world since Oct. 7, Eylon Levy was a rare compelling English-speaking voice. So why was he pushed...

31.03.2024 20

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US non-veto at UN, Netanyahu’s response, reflect an alliance in crisis, a war slowed

Security Council’s ceasefire resolution will raise international pressure on Israel, while Hamas will ignore the demand to release the hostages

25.03.2024 20

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Never mind Chuck Schumer’s hopes and fears, what Israel do Israelis want?

Senate majority leader fears pariah status looms for Israel and urges elections, but would voters choose a less divisive leadership? * Retaining US...

20.03.2024 30

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And the Oscar for incendiary misdiagnosis of the cause of a massacre of Jews goes to…

Jonathan Glazer got it wrong * Israel and its essential ally, openly and untenably at odds * 10 thoughts on the war

13.03.2024 60

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We’re living in the most worrying period for Jews since World War II

And there’s rarely been a time when Israel’s existence, imperiled from without, and hobbled from within, has been so manifestly necessary

06.03.2024 100

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The far-reaching consequences of Thursday’s Gaza aid disaster

Deadly incident will likely complicate both war aims — dismantling Hamas and returning the hostages — exacerbate friction on other fronts,...

01.03.2024 30

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Half of Israel stays away from democracy * Friction helps Biden and the PM * SIMs signs

In an Israel grappling with the trauma of Oct. 7 and the war, it is understandable that local elections were not a priority. But it’s a shame,...

28.02.2024 20

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In an Israel desperate for unity, Netanyahu keeps capitulating to the far-right, Haredim

Ben Gvir’s pyromaniacal Temple Mount demands * Why the ultra-Orthodox must share the burden * The IDF’s Rafah preparations * Public...

21.02.2024 20

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Sooner or later, the IDF will enter Rafah. It may have to fight on northern border, too

Right now, the IDF has more forces poised for action against Hezbollah in Lebanon than it has fighting in Gaza

14.02.2024 9

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With IDF hamstrung and Hamas scenting a way out, Netanyahu dodges strategic decisions

PM’s talk of ‘absolute victory’ is meaningless without him taking the political steps and providing the army with the...

07.02.2024 20

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Is there a way to bring the hostages home without derailing the war against Hamas?

Hamas demands appear to present near-impossible dilemma, especially for riven government. But IDF believes there is a path forward * Water and iron in...

31.01.2024 50

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Hamas came for everyone it could kill in Israel on Oct 7. Today, The Hague encouraged it

The ICJ accepted the South African jurists’ misrepresentation of the cause and nature of the war in Gaza, seeking to constrain Israel and thus...

26.01.2024 30

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Disaster just inside Gaza shows a war far from won, and shines light on a buffer zone

The death of 21 reservists just a few hundred yards away from a kibbutz murderously invaded by Hamas on October 7 brings a fresh test of...

24.01.2024 20

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Irresponsibility compounds catastrophe: Why the IDF’s war against Hamas has lost momentum

Dismantling Hamas in southern Gaza was always going to be tougher than in the north. But the challenge is being exacerbated by insistent ambivalence...

17.01.2024 40

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