| |  | | | | | | | Even on these "Days of Awe" on the Jewish calendar between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the news cycle in Israel does not take a break. Although this week some of it has migrated to the United States.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in New York ahead of his address Friday at the United Nations' General Assembly. Israeli pro-democracy protesters – some of whom flew in for the event, are noisily protesting his every move, along with expats and American Jews, as they work to disgrace him on an international stage.
Yoana Gonen argues that the buzz over Sunday's "Sixty Minutes" segment on the protests against the judicial coup, timed to coincide with Netanyahu's visit, is tarnished because the army reservists it focuses on appear willing to serve other Israeli governments, no matter how heinous their treatment of Palestinians might be.
Palestinians and the raw deal they were given by the Oslo Peace Accords, which entrenched the occupation, is the subject of Seraj Assi's piece on the 30th anniversary of the historic deal.
Uriel Abulof argues why the world's eyes should be on the Israelidemonstrations as a make-or-break test case for pro-democracy movements internationally.
Halie Soifer takes on Donald Trump's twisted, threatening Rosh Hashana "greeting" to American Jews, calling him out for his bigoted hatefulness and drawing a line between his and Netanyahu's autocratic tendencies.
Speaking of problematic personalities, Maya Lecker argues that although Israel’s far-right coalition has fewer women than previous governments, the women on board seem to be doing everything they can to take away rights that were earned over decades. | | |
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