| |  | | | | | | | David Daoud and Ahmad Sharawi argue that diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the dangerous situation between Israel and Hezbollah can only have temporary effect due to Hezbollah's implacable hostility.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak writes Israel is in a genuine emergency, as the country is being led in the midst of a catastrophe by a government and a prime minister who are patently unfit for office.
Etan Nechin writes that the U.S. Jewish community is still hesitating to condemn an extremist government which has betrayed the hostages, vilified their families, alienated Israel's allies, called to "resettle" Gaza and has no intention or vision about how to end the war.
Avi Shafran says ultra-Orthodox Jews like himself have been praying and advocating for the hostages and prefer diplomacy to dangerous rescue missions, while their ultra-nationalist counterparts see things very differently.
Daniel Solomon writes that French President Emmanuel Macron's call for snap elections has left French Jews stranded in a diminished political center, facing a campaign populated by vociferous antisemites and their appeasers both among the insurgent far right and the mainstream left.
David Schraub argues that the semantic fireworks over anti-Zionism and its relation to antisemitism are a distraction from the debate we need to be having about the growing power of Israel's racist far right and its consequences for Israelis, Palestinians and Diaspora Jews.
David Issacharoff writes about a viral photo juxtaposing a lush field of sunflowers in Israel against the ruins of Gaza, sparking problematic comparisons to the film about the bucolic home of Auschwitz's Nazi commander. The debate, he notes, reminds us what images not only suggest, but also hide.
Hanin Majadli asks if people in Israel even know that Palestinian prisoners are held without court monitoring and without Red Cross representatives or lawyers being able to meet them. | | |
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