Israeli security

Israeli forces search for the attacker around the scene of a shooting at a bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Israel’s false promise of security

Those devising punishments for Palestinians after attacks in Israeli cities offer nothing but a violent ritual in which despair and rage are the order of the day.

By Edo Konrad April 10, 2022

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations headquarters, New York City, September 26, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

What Netanyahu’s idea of peace looks like

Although he may publicly reiterate his support for a two-state solution, Netanyahu’s vision for a future Palestinian state is one that would lack nearly all sovereignty. U.S. President Donald Trump said that he favors two states as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New…

By Haggai Matar September 27, 2018

The Wall, 10 years on / part 11: Security for Israel?

The immediate trigger to start building the wall was the security of Israeli citizens. Ten years later, with all the known accumulated effects on Palestinians, nature, economy and political affairs – has the barrier fulfilled its stated goal for Israelis? Project photography: Oren Ziv / Activestills Standing on the cemetery mount in Budrus, at first…

By Haggai Matar July 14, 2012

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Soon to be pixilated? IDF gunmen, led by a Lt. Col., harrassing journalists in Al Ma'asara (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

IDF treats pregnant NYT journalist “cruelly” at Gaza crossing

News sources reported during the day on the humiliating harassment of a foreign journalist by IDF soldiers, as she tried to enter Israel from a Gaza crossing. According to IDF radio (Hebrew) and the Jerusalem Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning, veteran photographer Lynsey Addario, working for the New York Times, was returning to Israel after an assignment…

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 28, 2011

The fight is on to stop Bibi and Barak from bombing Iran

An Op-Ed by Nahum Barnea in today’s Yediot Aharonot lambasts PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak for moving to strike Iran. What does this mean? The two face high-powered internal opposition, and the opposition is now starting to go public. If Israel eventually realizes that bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would be an act of absolute…

By Larry Derfner October 28, 2011