Israeli nationality – there’s no such animal


A lot of religious and nationalist sewage has flowed through the state of Israel’s streams since its establishment…

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Israeli nationality – there’s no such animal


The code to Damascus


To fathom why the bloody Syrian civil war shows no sign of abating, one has to understand the tribal mentality of the Arab region.

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The code to Damascus

Saddam Hussein of Damascus

 Stop the Syrian regime
There are moments when one cannot stand idly by. The world must stop the killing in Syria.

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Saddam Hussein of Damascus

Light comes from the West, nostalgia from the Middle East


The Arab world will never be able to improve its future if it keeps harking back to the past.

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Light comes from the West, nostalgia from the Middle East


Lip service will not bring peace


Instead of playing to the gallery of public opinion, Palestinian and Israeli leaders should start telling their people the truth.

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Lip service will not bring peace


Share the defense burden? Let’s do it!

 If the current Arab MKs had any imagination at all, they would submit their own bill obligating every citizen - regardless of ethnicity, religion, race, color and gender - to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Then we’d see how the 'knights of the equal burden' would vote.

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Share the defense burden? Let’s do it!


The Islamic Movement is not the answer


Not unlike Jewish fundamentalism, the Islamic Movement is one of the damaging phenomena in Arab society in Israel. The optimal solution in the context of the volatile Israeli mix is legislation prohibiting the establishment of religious parties.

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The Islamic Movement is not the answer

Getting rid of the nationalism disease

Nationalism is a human illness. When the religion bug is added, the disease becomes metastatic. Before we can realize utopian visions we have to bring the “peoples” back to history.

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Getting rid of the nationalism disease

The invisible minority

The Oslo agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel conclusively cut off the Arabs of Israel from the national solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

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Watching the slaughter in Syria

The horrors across the border do not arouse disgust or revulsion here. The opposite is true; there are those who continue to organize gatherings in support of the butcher of Damascus.
 
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Watching the slaughter in Syria

MIDDLE EAST
  • War Games

    Israel also needs Iran. Just as Iran calls Israel the Little Satan (compared to the great American one), Israel also portrays Iran as the devil incarnate...
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  • Arab Nationalism?

    The past several years have provided decisive proof that all the pompous Arab slogans from the ideological school of the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath parties...
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE
  • For Jews only

    The Jewish messianic understanding of the "Land of Israel" is what dictated the move. Now Netanyahu will surely find a way around the High Court with general Jewish support.
  • Make way for Barghouti

    As long as Abbas bears the title “president of Palestine,” he will keep sitting there praising Palestine. But he will be bearing this name in vain...

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