Benjamin Netanyahu

A Palestinian woman carries balloons during a peace march along the West Bank’s major north-south artery, Highway 60, March 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Even in 2020, there’s still cause for hope in Israel-Palestine

These are dark times politically. But amid the gloom, there are real sources of hope in Israel-Palestine — not least all the people fighting to make it a better place.

By Haggai Matar January 2, 2020

Illustrative photo of Palestinian women standing in line as they try to pass through Qalandiya checkpoint, which separates the West Bank city of Ramallah from Jerusalem. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

We are all one staters now

The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that, for the past decade, we have been living in a one-state reality.

By Noam Sheizaf December 27, 2019

Israeli settlers seen celebrating Israeli Independence Day near the outpost of Havat Gilad, West Bank, May 9, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

The decade Israel erased the Green Line

For years, Israel's settlement enterprise was widely viewed as temporary and reversible. Today, after a decade of Netanyahu and three years of Trump, the West Bank has become part of the Israeli mainstream.

By Dror Etkes December 26, 2019

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Activists protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The many faces of Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu has only been so successful because he reflects and represents the many faces of Israel: victor and victim, global citizen and international outcast, pyromaniac and war-shy.

By Dahlia Scheindlin December 22, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in Gush Etzion, West Bank, January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Selem/Flash90)

Netanyahu wants to turn annexation into his lasting legacy

Nothing would make Netanyahu happier than watching his successor continue to thwart a Palestinian state — even if Bibi has to watch it from the window of his prison cell.

By Meron Rapoport December 5, 2019

Likud parliament member Gideon Sa'ar with Likud supporters during an event in Hod Hasharon, November 25, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Meet Gideon Sa’ar, the right-wing ideologue embraced by the Israeli left

Likud member Gideon Sa'ar is the new face of the left-wing and centrist anti-Netanyahu coalition. But as his track record shows, he's a staunch right-wing ideologue.

By Naomi Niddam December 2, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files on Iran's nuclear program in a press conference at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s entitlement is a product of Israel’s social hierarchy

A democracy would ensure that a prime minister charged with corruption should step down. But under Israel’s ethnic and class-based regime, what he did is less important than who he is.

By Shoshana Gabay December 1, 2019

Thousands take part in a pro-Netanyahu rally outside the Tel Aviv Museum, less than a week after Israel's attorney general announced he would file bribery charges against the prime minister, November 26, 2019. (Oren Ziv)

A pro-Netanyahu rally turns into a forum for deep state conspiracies

Like Trump’s base, the speakers and audience at Tuesday night's pro-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv seemed convinced that someone else is managing their country behind the scenes.

By Oren Ziv November 27, 2019

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein speaks during a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Jerusalem, November 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Leader of Jewish supremacist group charged with anti-Palestinian incitement

Benzi Gopstein, like Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing long-overdue criminal charges. But both men's indictments change nothing about the racist, expansionist systems that produced them.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland November 27, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a meeting of the right-wing parties bloc at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu to be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud

The prime minister has denied wrongdoing in the three cases against him, calling the investigations against him a 'witch hunt' by the media, police, and Israeli left.

By Edo Konrad November 21, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an 'emergency' Likud rally in Tel Aviv, November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

By labeling Arabs an ‘existential threat,’ Bibi invokes a terrifying history of ethnic violence

Netanyahu organized an emergency Likud gathering Sunday night, in which he accused Israel's Palestinian citizens of supporting terror. We know how this kind of thing can end.

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 18, 2019

Mourners attend the funeral of seven members of the Abu Malhous family killed by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral, Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

With Gaza behind him, Netanyahu puts Israel’s Palestinians in the crosshairs

With corruption indictments closing in, Netanyahu hopes his scorched earth campaign against Palestinians will give Israelis the sense that they cannot afford change.

By Edo Konrad November 17, 2019

Palestinians survey the destruction following an Israeli air strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

On the Gaza fence, a call for stability — not vengeance

The latest round of violence in Gaza has already taken the lives of at least 34 Palestinians. Meanwhile, in Israel's southern towns, residents want stability — not more war.

By Oren Ziv November 15, 2019