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Netanyahu’s disingenuous pardon request, and how Herzog should handle it

Nobody compelled the PM to submit what amounts to a demand for an unconditional pardon, in the ‘national interest,’ for offenses he...

03.12.2025 40

David Horovitz

An editor’s flawed human ramblings on AI, journalism and the disappearance of truth

We are at risk of losing our capacity to establish the facts of what is unfolding around us. And pretty soon, we may give up trying

26.11.2025 10

David Horovitz

Netanyahu’s Oct. 7 inquiry aims to safeguard his job, not Israel’s future

An independent state inquiry is essential to prevent a recurrence of the worst disaster in Israel’s history. The PM’s panel won’t...

19.11.2025 30

David Horovitz

Settlers torch West Bank mosque, scrawl hateful messages after IDF leaders’ reproach

Deir Istiya village targeted amid rising settler violence that has displaced thousands; graffiti threatens revenge after rare condemnation from...

13.11.2025 40

David Horovitz

Israel-haters’ incendiary rebranding of Zionism

At an already forgotten soccer match in England last week, another red line was crossed in the battle to demonize, delegitmize and ultimately destroy...

13.11.2025 60

David Horovitz

Does it really matter that New York’s Mayor-elect Mamdani loathes and demonizes Israel?

There’s an argument to be made that Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory is all about local issues. It’s delusional

05.11.2025 30

David Horovitz

How to regain the upper hand over Hamas, as it withholds hostages’ bodies, attacks IDF, plots revival

What’s needed is an immediate ultimatum from Trump backed by a credible military threat and, beyond that, a realistic plan for a postwar Gaza...

29.10.2025 10

David Horovitz

Forging a durable peace for Gaza? Obviously impossible… But Trump did get all 20 living hostages back

Hamas is already restoring a rule of terror in parts of Gaza and vowing not to lay down its arms. Netanyahu opposes a PA role and has proposed no...

22.10.2025 40

David Horovitz

Israel’s bright, exuberant, imperfect day, two years after its worst

No, the war is not over, Hamas is not destroyed, and not all of the hostages are home. But President Trump saved 20 worlds. May that be only the start

15.10.2025 20

David Horovitz

No, Hamas is not ready for ‘lasting peace,’ but can Trump persuade it to free all the hostages?

The US president has evidently decided he knows better than the prime minister about Israel’s essential needs; now he’s bidding to somehow...

08.10.2025 50

David Horovitz

On Yom Kippur, the faint hope of a ‘good conclusion’

Why would Hamas free all the hostages and endorse a proposal designed to ensure its demise? Why would Hamas backers Turkey and Qatar, now key...

01.10.2025 30

David Horovitz

48 surreal hours in Damascus — an Israeli reporter’s travelogue from an enemy capital

I had no idea what to expect from a visit to Syria, accompanying a US Jewish group to holy sites and meetings with Sharaa government officials. I...

19.09.2025 100

David Horovitz

Netanyahu takes a calculated risk on a legitimate target in a deeply problematic location

The world loves a winner, but failure is an orphan. Successfully striking Hamas’s terror chiefs inside Qatar would not necessarily have proved...

10.09.2025 10

David Horovitz

Is there a grand plan, or is Israel about to expand a war its own army chief wants to pause?

Trump is publicly urging Israel to get the war over with, but that goal is intertwined with the necessity for a ‘day after’ mechanism....

03.09.2025 40

David Horovitz

The US has a ‘comprehensive plan’ for postwar Gaza? Let’s pray it’s a good one

There are some mighty complexities and contradictions to overcome for all hostages to be freed, Hamas disarmed, and Gaza rehabilitated. But only Trump...

27.08.2025 10

David Horovitz

Trump’s moment: How the US president can help Netanyahu make the wise choice on Gaza

Israel’s threat of expanded war has yielded the opportunity for precisely the kind of deal the PM had been demanding. The US can make sure he...

20.08.2025 30

David Horovitz

Driver’s ed with one of ‘the Thirty-Six’? An inspirational story, in a time of crisis

How a jovial, portly preventive driving instructor who converses with God impacted my life and those of others, even though I’m still not sure...

15.08.2025 90

David Horovitz

Huckabee: With Palestine state move, UK and France have joined forces with Israel’s enemies

US ambassador hits back at growing denunciation of Israel’s Gaza policies, rejects reports of high death tolls around aid sites, denies...

13.08.2025 70

David Horovitz

What is Netanyahu planning with Gaza’s ‘full occupation,’ and why is the IDF chief so worried?

Israel already controls 75% of the Gaza Strip. The hostages are in the other 25%. So, too, are almost all of Gaza’s two million citizens

06.08.2025 40

David Horovitz

As Israel’s allies turn on it, here’s the least bad of the lousy options for ‘victory’ in Gaza

The Netanyahu-led government is floundering militarily in Gaza and alienating the world and much of Israel and the Jewish diaspora with its approach...

30.07.2025 30

David Horovitz

How Israel made itself responsible for Gaza, and for all the death and destruction there

A war that began with the imperative to destroy Hamas’s military machine and get back the hostages has metastasized into an Israeli military...

23.07.2025 70

David Horovitz

Netanyahu’s endgame – on Gaza, Haredi service in the IDF, and winning the next election

The prime minister will have to face the electorate again sometime soon. He intends to do so on his own terms, with as much authority as possible...

16.07.2025 40

David Horovitz

A new strategy for destroying Hamas?

Trump’s Middle East envoy Witkoff says the latest phased deal is almost completed, and believes it ‘will lead to lasting peace’. We’ll know...

09.07.2025 30

David Horovitz

Trump lets Netanyahu have his say on Hamas, even as he pushes for a deal to end the war

At White House meet, rather than publicly trying to force Netanyahu’s hand, the president allows the PM to explain why Hamas must not be allowed to...

08.07.2025 60

David Horovitz

While we were in the bomb shelters

Six brief insights as we reemerge into the light

02.07.2025 30

David Horovitz

Israel was facing destruction at the hands of Iran. This is how close it came, and how it saved itself

Iran was a decision and a few weeks away from nuclear weapons. But unlike Gaza 2023, Israel had been watching

30.06.2025 200

David Horovitz

When the US president helped save Israel, then went ballistic on its leadership

With those three strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, Trump might also just have helped save humanity. But he and only he will...

25.06.2025 20

David Horovitz

How close was Iran to the bomb, and how far has Israel pushed it back?

The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that Israel struck in the nick of time: Iran was very close to the bomb. Its ballistic missiles were...

18.06.2025 40

David Horovitz

As the IDF deepens its hold in Gaza, what exactly is meant to happen next?

Domestic and global criticism of the war is growing. So, too, the US president’s impatience. Aid supply is chaotic, often deadly. The far right is...

11.06.2025 8

David Horovitz

BBC defends Gaza coverage after White House criticism it takes ‘the word of Hamas’

US administration spokesperson highlights repeated changes British broadcaster made in report on aid center violence; BBC says adjusting death tolls...

04.06.2025 30

David Horovitz

Iran’s foreign minister visits Lebanon to discuss Hezbollah support

Amid Lebanese drive to disarm terror group, Abbas Araghchi meets with leader Naim Qassem, declares support for Lebanon’s stability, sovereignty and...

04.06.2025 50

David Horovitz

Who’s shooting whom near Rafah’s aid center, and who’s exploiting the bloodshed

Trying to pierce the fog of war has been spectacularly difficult ever since Hamas triggered almost 20 months of conflict. Israeli defeatism on the...

04.06.2025 40

David Horovitz

And what if Hamas doesn’t blink?

Netanyahu has plunged Israel into a high-risk, morally alarming game of chicken with Gaza’s ultra-cynical terrorists

28.05.2025 10

David Horovitz

End the war to get back the hostages. Save Israel

Netanyahu knows his coalition will collapse if he revives the kind of agreement he and his ministers accepted in January. That should not, and need...

21.05.2025 40

David Horovitz

Hailing Syria, arming Saudis, dealing with Iran and Houthis, Trump relegates Israeli concerns

The US president is making a slew of deals, decisions and alliances central to the daily well-being and geostrategic future of a marginalized Israel....

14.05.2025 10

David Horovitz

Trump puts an American First, and Israel rejoices

The freeing of Edan Alexander is wonderful instance of US and Israeli interests overlapping. As JD Vance predicted months ago, that’s not always the...

13.05.2025 30

David Horovitz

His first term was remarkable for Israel from the start. What is Trump up to this time?

Direct talks with Hamas, confused dealings with Iran, an unworkable vision for Gaza and now an agreement with the Houthis, all uncoordinated with...

07.05.2025 10

David Horovitz

Israel’s anthem yearns for us ‘to be a free people, in our own land.’ We dare not fail

These past 18 months, we have struggled as never before in our modern history. We let down our guard and our enemies pounced. Worse still, our...

30.04.2025 70

David Horovitz

The never-ending war

More than 18 months after Hamas’s invasion and slaughter, the terrible truth is that neither of the resulting war’s two key goals is close to...

23.04.2025 10

David Horovitz

Know your enemy: Trump must wise up, fast, to inhumane Hamas and ruthless Iran

No, Mr. President, Gaza’s genocidal terrorists don’t wink at their hostages or show any ‘sign of love,’ and Iran’s nuclear ambitions can’t...

16.04.2025 10

David Horovitz

A deal is ‘preferable,’ as Trump said, but only if it permanently blocks Iranian nukes

Netanyahu rightly denounced the 2015 JCPOA, and persuaded Trump to withdraw from it; now the US president is trying diplomacy again, backed by dark...

09.04.2025 20

David Horovitz

Netanyahu’s aides fronting for Qatar? Sadly, more plausible than the PM’s ‘deep state’ defense

The allegation that the PM’s aides have been working for a country that would not be unhappy to see Israel destroyed is almost too horrendous to...

02.04.2025 10

David Horovitz

Happening now: The smooth, malevolent unraveling of Israel’s vulnerable democracy

The balance between the branches of government is being shattered as I write, in a country that cannot afford the bitter division its prime minister...

26.03.2025 30

David Horovitz

For Israel, everything will not be okay

Summarily fired by Netanyahu, the head of the Shin Bet is also falsely accused of knowing hours ahead of time that Hamas was going to invade and...

21.03.2025 20

David Horovitz

Resumed war solves Netanyahu’s problems. But what of Israel’s?

The coalition is restabilized, Ben Gvir is back, a troublesome security chief is on the way out, to be followed by the AG, and the judiciary is about...

19.03.2025 10

David Horovitz

With move to fire Shin Bet chief, Netanyahu aims to tighten his personal control of Israel

The PM will have calculated there will be strong public protest and legal opposition to his ousting of Ronen Bar. To the country’s misfortune and...

17.03.2025 30

David Horovitz

Steve Witkoff, Israel looks to you

To drag us out of this unforgivable limbo, in which Hamas is rearming and no hostages are going free, your first task is ensuring that Netanyahu is...

12.03.2025 40

David Horovitz

Meet Adam Boehler, Trump’s complacent, confused and dangerously naive hostage envoy

Hamas leaders must be laughing in disbelief after their interactions with a man who says he tried to identify their ‘human elements’; nobody’s...

10.03.2025 60

David Horovitz

Why Netanyahu must accept Yarden Bibas’s noble invitation, and also back state probe of Oct. 7

‘If we do not look the disaster in the eye, we will not be able to recover,’ the bereaved father and husband wrote, urging the PM to join him when...

05.03.2025 20

David Horovitz

Tim Snyder’s warning: Israel depends upon a functioning US. Trump and Musk are destroying it

A deeply disturbing interview with the Yale historian, famed for offering 20th century lessons for protecting today’s democracies. He also sees a...

01.03.2025 100

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