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Shah Mohammad Reza with his consort and crown prince after the coronation, 1967.

The unwritten history of Israel’s alliance with the Shah’s dictatorship

For years, Israel maintained close political, economic, and security relations with the Shah of Iran. Newly-declassified documents reveal that Israeli leaders were well aware of his murderous suppression of political opponents. By Eitay Mack This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, during which the Ayatollahs took control of the country and brought…

By +972 Magazine June 24, 2019

Palestinian refugee Laila Abdel Meguid Tafesh 78 years old, from the Rafah refugee camp, holds up a key she says is from her house in Jaffa. (Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)

Lessons from my Palestinian mother about Jerusalem — and resistance

For 70 years, Israel has tried to erase Palestinian history. And for 70 years, Palestinians have resisted erasure. My mother helped me understand how. In her expansive history of Jerusalem, British author Karen Armstrong describes a peculiar pastime of Moshe Dayan, the Israeli general who, in 1967, captured the city’s eastern half. Dayan, it turns…

By Samer Badawi May 15, 2018

Palestinians seen at sunset during a protest as part of the Great Return March, near the Israeli-Gaza fence, eastern of Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, April 23, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)

Palestinian refugees are demanding to be heard. Will we listen?

70 years later, Palestinian refugees are no longer waiting for peace talks to determine their fate. In Gaza, they are actively reclaiming their place at the table. On a warm spring day in late April 1956, Moshe Dayan, then the IDF chief of staff and Israel’s eminent war hero, delivered an address that would become…

By Edo Konrad May 6, 2018

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, March 16, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s Alt-Zionism has no need for American Jews

Instead of firmly speaking out against the more than 190 anti-Semitic threats and attacks over the past few weeks, Netanyahu has decided to throw the American Jewish community under the bus of right-wing Israeli fanaticism. By David Sarna Galdi Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week told a delegation led by Reform Movement head Rabbi Rick…

By +972 Magazine March 16, 2017

Screenshot from Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs hasbara video.

For Israelis, Palestinian refugees are a constant, lurking threat

A new government public relations clip shows Israeli Jews as the perpetual victims of history. But once upon a time Israeli leaders were able to consider the pain of others, too. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs managed to out-do itself on Thursday when it released its latest hasbara (state-sponsored PR) video of Jews as…

By Edo Konrad October 7, 2016

Generals-turned-prime ministers Ariel Sharon (Left) and Yitzhak Rabin. (Photo: GPO)

Israel’s class of military politicians and chances for peace

Israel’s doves may have a Palestinian partner, but they lack a locomotive to pull the peace train to its destination. Read part one: What does the future hold for Israel’s military politicians? By Thomas G. Mitchell From the 1960s until the outbreak of the al-Aqsa Intifada in late 2000, which led to the collapse of the Labor…

By +972 Magazine February 23, 2014

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in a briefing to to press on Iran (photo: IDF Spokesperson / CC BY-NC 2.0)

What does the future hold for Israel’s military politicians?

Could the Jewish state ever be lead by a class of non-military politicians? Until there is a peace agreement with the Palestinians, it seems unlikely. And even then, who knows? By Thomas G. Mitchell Historically there have been two types of Israeli leaders who have been willing to give up territory to the Arabs in exchange for…

By +972 Magazine February 22, 2014

Then MK Moshe Dayan and Bedouin MK Sheikh Hamad Abu Rabia in the Knesset, September 3, 1975. (Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO)

The military face behind the Prawer Plan’s civilian mask

‘The Bedouin will not live on his land with his flock, but rather will be part of the urban class that comes in the afternoon and puts on his slippers,’ Moshe Dayan said in 1963. In the 50 years since, not much has changed regarding Israel’s efforts to justify its policy in the Negev: as…

By Haokets December 10, 2013

Women of the Wall pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. March 12, 2013 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘Why I cannot stand with Women of the Wall’

Nothing in Israel, or in the Middle East, is disconnected from anything else. Yet the issue of women’s religious access to the Kotel is treated, especially in North America, as if it exists in a vacuum. By Aryeh Cohen The story of Women of the Wall begins with the Wall. The story of the contemporary…

By +972 Magazine October 10, 2013

Haaretz front page, 5 Oct 2010

Between the Lines (5 Oct): Yom Kippur war protocol revealed

Headlines: It’s déjà-vu all over again >Top of the news: Israel under attack! All-out war! Egyptians cross the channel! No, wait a second… what? That was the 1973 Yom Kippur war, which is now back in the headlines. A declassified protocol reveals that the Israeli leadership was overwhelmed, and that the security minister at the…

By Roi Maor October 5, 2010