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“There are No Innocents”: A Year to “Cast Lead (What You Won’t Read in the Papers)

[note: This article, belatedly published here, was originally written by Idan Landau in his Hebrew Blog "Lo Lamut Tipesh" (don't die stupid), it contains links to several sources. whenever possible I've provided english versions of the links. However, some of the links are for blogs, some for media articles with no available translation. Those links were [...]

Grass is Sort of a Weed

Originally I’ve intended to write a response to Dotan’s post and wittily call it “Why I Don’t Go”. But then I realized I agreed with what he wrote, and that his reasons for going to the rally are the same reasons that prevent me from going. What makes Dotan feel like he needs to be [...]

same game, same players

It’s funny how sometimes history repeats itself. In this case even the characters involved remain almost the same.

The left side of the political map in Israel, at least on the parliamentary level has suffered a great deal of losses in recent years. The left side of the 120-member Israeli parliament includes currently four Members of [...]

Carlo Strenger and the Psychology of the Opressor / Yanay Israeli

Personally, I really lost my patience with those so-called leftists who live in Israel, in 2009 (post assassinations, post “separation wall”, post “Cast lead”) and still refuse to lift their delicate necks and get their heads out of the warm, comforting swamp which is the symmetrical frame of thought. A person who thinks about the [...]

The Same Old Tune – Political Arrests in Bil’in / Yanay Israeli

A few weeks ago, one of my friends asked me about the protests in Bil’in: Why do they continue? Haven’t the supreme court already ruled that the “separation wall” there should be taken down?

Indeed, the Israeli court did acknowledge that the path of the wall near Bil’in was laid not based on security requirements [...]

It Is a Hate Crime

After yesterday’s shooting there were a lot of fingers pointed towards religious parliament members, reminding them of their harsh words on the LGBT community – anything from calling them an abomination to accusing them of causing earthquakes and calling to treat them as one should treat the swine flu.

Some people on the other [...]

late bloomers

The mainstream reaction to the evidence presented by “Shovrim Shtika” was shown here. But it was not the only public response. Prominent politicians, media representatives, authors, academic figures and such – most of them recognized with what is called the “Zionist Left” (a term that describes most of Israel’s left – a [...]

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