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Nehemia Shtrasler

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If Netanyahu Were Opposition Leader He Would Set Israel on Fire, but Lapid Is Feeble

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Tisha B'Av May Be Over, but Netanyahu Keeps the Destruction Coming

07.08.2025 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Does Netanyahu See the 1,840 Victims of the October 7 War When He Looks in the Mirror?

30.04.2025 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

A German Soldier Shot My Father During World War II, but He Survived

24.04.2025 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Smotrich Might Deny It, but Israel's Right Is Preparing for Civil War

26.03.2025 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Is Leading Israel Into a Dictatorship

24.03.2025 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

For Ben-Gvir, Death Is the Pinnacle of Success – as Long as His Own Life Isn't at Risk

21.01.2025 40

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No Surrender: Israel's Beleaguered Army Chief Must Not Resign

15.01.2025 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israeli Government Corruption: From Lingerie to Billion-shekel Handouts

Corruption is a contagious disease. When a state leader becomes corrupt, he infects the entire state with the disease.

07.01.2025 7

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Quick Action After Assad's Fall Shows Netanyahu Learned His Lesson After Oct. 7

It was a dramatic, extraordinary event – the elimination of a country's military capabilities in three days. It happened at the beginning of last...

16.12.2024 4

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Why Netanyahu Really Signed the Cease-fire Agreement With Lebanon

Instead of a sense of joy and a good feeling, we are enveloped in an atmosphere of sourness. It's not the fact that we didn't achieve a "total...

03.12.2024 5

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Doing an Injustice to Netanyahu, the ICC Rekindles the Ancient Flames of Jews Hatred

27.11.2024 4

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Nehemia Shtrasler

This Turncoat Israeli Lawmaker Is a Lackey Whose Price Is Known: A Ministerial Post

Transportation Minister Miri Regev succeeded in defining him precisely. In July 2021, when lawmaker Zeev Elkin entered the Knesset, she addressed...

20.11.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel Katz's Declarations of Victory Over Hamas and Hezbollah Couldn't Be More False

Herod didn't need any preparation period. After all, he's a great general who knows all. After only three weeks on the job, Israel Katz, who once...

18.11.2024 4

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Has Paid No Price for Rabin's Murder. He Has Profited From It

Tuesday, the 12th day of the Jewish month of Cheshvan, will mark the 29th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Three official...

13.11.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

In Firing Gallant, Netanyahu Caved to the ultra-Orthodox Ultimatum

On Tuesday evening at 8 P.M. came a harsh blow: Israel's prime minister had fired the country's defense minister in the middle of a war on seven...

10.11.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Megalomaniacal Smotrich Doesn't Know What It Means to Be Israel's Finance Minister

This week, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich finally submitted his economic plan for 2025, a long series of tax increases and freezes on wages and...

21.10.2024 6

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel Won't Forgive Netanyahu, Even on Yom Kippur

Atonement. Yom Kippur is a day of forgiveness and absolution. In order to atone for the sins between man and God, it is enough to confess to them...

13.10.2024 3

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Netanyahu, the Champion of Procrastinators, Hesitated on Nasrallah's Killing as Well

The successful assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has restored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's confidence. He suddenly seems...

02.10.2024 4

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Nehemia Shtrasler

War Is Bad for Israel's Economy. Arrogant, Hedonistic Smotrich Is Making It Worse

Are we headed for a large-scale war with Hezbollah? That's not clear. But one thing is clear: We must maintain a large, expensive army if we want...

22.09.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Is Unfit to Serve as Israel's Leader. Cognitively, Morally and Strategically

15.09.2024 6

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Gantz and Eisenkot Take on Netanyahu, but It's Hard to Beat a Crook

It was a battle that was hard to win, a battle between a duplicitous crook and two honest people, between an inveterate liar and two serious men...

09.09.2024 20

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Smotrich, Israel's Little Napoleon, Is Detached From Reality

He never spent a minute studying economics and doesn't understand anything about the subject, but he has no problem criticizing the governor of the...

03.09.2024 4

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Let This Israeli Hostage's Mother Speak

27.08.2024 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Battered Credit Rating Is a Vote of No Confidence in the Gov't, Not the Economy

Benjamin Netanyahu did not disappoint. He was quick to blame the war. In his words, "The Israeli economy is strong and is functioning well," and...

19.08.2024 5

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Lied to Time Magazine, Too

Don't think he doesn't care. In fact, in an interview last week in Time magazine, when pressed by his interviewer in connection with the October 7...

14.08.2024 2

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Talks Like a Lion, but Cowers Like a Rabbit

The hostages don't interest him, the deserted, bombarded north doesn't move him, even the 1,623 people murdered or killed in the war for which he...

07.08.2024 4

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Nehemia Shtrasler