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2024-12-22 |
Alon Pinkas on challenging the idea of Netanyahu as a master strategist of the Middle East Haaretz senior columnist and former diplomat Alon Pinkas says that for years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tacitly supported the continuation of the brutal dictatorship of Bashar Assad in Syria, and it is absurd for him to claim credit for helping... |
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2024-12-17 | Israel, the United States, and European leaders are all missing a unique opportunity in their policy stance and behavior toward the new post-Assad regime in Syria, veteran Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom said on the Haaretz Podcast. Carlstrom... |
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2024-12-12 |
The (deep) state vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: Inside the courtroom during the PM's testimony In this episode of the Haaretz Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer and Haaretz columnist Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin delve into the trial of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing corruption charges while continuing to lead the country at wartime. From the demons... |
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2024-12-09 |
'They're no Zionists': How Syria's rebels toppled Assad and what it means for Israel The rapid collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has left Israel concerned about the future of what has been its quietest border in an era of continual instability and war, as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel group that drove Assad out and has roots in A... |
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2024-12-06 |
Settlement revival? military entrenchment? What are Israel’s long term plans for Gaza? The evidence is mounting that Israel is entrenching itself militarily in Gaza for the long term. At the same time, Israel’s settler movements and far-right government are making no secret of their concrete plans to revive the Jewish settlements in the ... |
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2024-12-04 |
Netanyahu and Trump's 'creeping authoritarianism': 'It always begins and ends with women' In both Israel and the United States, women's rights and their autonomy are under attack from the surging power of far-right religious political forces in the current Netanyahu government and future Trump White House. In Israel, the “creeping theocrac... |
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2024-11-29 | Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s multi-front assault on the media - spearheaded by an economic boycott of Haaretz - is a blatant attempt to intimidate Israeli journalists into self-censorship and weaken press outlets that continue to dare to report cr... |
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2024-11-27 |
Could the International court’s arrest warrants break Netanyahu’s grip on power? In this episode, Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer explores the fallout from the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant. Joined by Haaretz diplomatic corre... |
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2024-11-21 |
'We show up in places that some of the Jewish community has abandoned' Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, to discuss the challenges of leading progressive American Jews during Israel's Gaza war and ahead of a second Trump presidency. Rabbi Jaco... |
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2024-11-19 |
Is the 'Trump effect' preventing Iran from attacking Israel? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to include Russia in the process of negotiating a ceasefire with Hezbollah struck Middle East expert and former MK Ksenia Svetlova as "strange" given the strong Iran-Russia alliance and the countries' shared... |
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