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Zvi Bar&x27El

Zvi Bar&x27El

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Israel's Wild Imperial Ambitions Only Show How It Turned Its Back on Its Own People

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The Battle to Free Israel From Those Holding It Hostage

13.02.2025 40

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Total Victory in Gaza? Dismantling Hamas? The Hostage Deal Is Exposing Netanyahu's Lies

30.01.2025 10

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It Isn't Too Late: The Israel-Hamas Deal Must Be Amended Before It Self-implodes

25.01.2025 40

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'Phase Two': How Israel Plans to Abandon the Hostages

20.01.2025 60

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A Partial Hostage Deal Isn't Enough, but With Netanyahu It's All We Can Hope For

09.01.2025 20

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Even 'Good Israelis' Are Part of the Broad Circle of Tacit Consent to War Crimes

03.01.2025 30

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As Israel's Borders Change, So Does Its Character

How many borders does the State of Israel have and where are they? This question does have an answer, even if it is confusing. Israel has a...

19.12.2024 5

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Forget Champagne and Cigars: Netanyahu Has Blood on His Hands

Save for this marginal event on October 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned everything to the last detail. He didn't leave anything to...

12.12.2024 9

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Israel's Government Isn't Afraid Enough of the People

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." This dictum has been attributed to...

11.12.2024 10

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It Can't Happen Here? Israeli Democracy Is Fighting for Its Life

Here are two texts, almost identical and creepy in equal measure, that were written from a distance of some 90 years from today. The first says, "...

04.12.2024 8

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Netanyahu's New Order Is Turning Israelis Into Voiceless Refugees in Their Own Country

Let's take a moment to think, not as an exercise in guided imagination but as a realistic scenario, that the government of criminals and the crazed...

24.11.2024 10

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Israel's Minister of Occupation Thinks He Can Persuade Trump to Approve the Annexation

"The year 2025 will be the year of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria," minister of colonization Bezalel Smotrich promised, using the...

14.11.2024 4

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The Two-state Sword Will Hang Over Israel No Matter Who Is in the White House

Whichever president enters the White House in two months won't change a single cosmic fact – the same gang will still be ruling Israel....

07.11.2024 3

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Netanyahu's 'Killing for the Sake of Humanity' Lie Keeps Israelis' Conscience Clear

Here's a small exercise in populist demography: This week, the death toll in the Gaza Strip rose to more than 43,000 people – around 2 percent of...

31.10.2024 50

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Israel Is Entering the Most Dangerous Stage: Acceptance

10.10.2024 3

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Israel Has No Way Out of the War in Lebanon Without an Agreement

"Returning the residents of the north securely to their homes" is obviously something Israel should be seeking to achieve, an essential aim of the...

26.09.2024 30

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Don't Believe the 'No Choice' Lie. Israel Does Not Need a War in Lebanon

Israel is rushing with its eyes wide open into a war of choice in Lebanon, without knowing who will be the defense minister leading it, while the...

20.09.2024 20

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Ben-Gvir Is the Military Arm of Israel's Terror Organization Government

What should Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet, do when faced with evidence showing that a member of Israel's government is working to lay a bomb...

29.08.2024 20

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Netanyahu Keeps the Wheels of Insanity Spinning With His Talk of 'Total Victory'

For the past 10 months Israel has been waging a war from hand to mouth. Another raid on a "terror infrastructure," another senior official...

22.08.2024 20

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Israel's Defense Minister Isn't a Hero. He's Just Telling the Truth

Not believing in "total victory" is an "anti-Israeli" narrative. Doing so means scoffing at the narrative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has...

15.08.2024 4

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Are Israel's Defense Chiefs Lying About the Hostages Too?

We've finally managed to put on a real show, not just a neighborhood brawl or an exchange of blows with mobs. Now we potentially face an all-out...

11.08.2024 30

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Why the Judicial Coup and Sde Teiman Riots Have More in Common Than You Think

02.08.2024 10

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The Silent West Bank Settlers Are More Than Complicit in Violence Against Palestinians

In blunt and mostly accurate words, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, outgoing commander of the army's Central Command, described the nationalist Jewish...

11.07.2024 40

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