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Meron Rapoport
Meron Rapoport is an editor at Local Call.
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Why do Israelis feel so threatened by a ceasefire?
Halting the Gaza war means recognizing that Israel’s military goals were unrealistic — and that it cannot escape a political process with the Palestinians.
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Meron Rapoport
March 29, 2024
The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?
The mantra of national unity has abetted the Israeli right’s sense of historic victory. But much of the public appears to be realizing some hard truths.
By
Meron Rapoport
March 20, 2024
‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’
Oct. 7 has ‘broken a contract’ between the army and gov’t, but has yet to shake key parts of Israeli society into a different paradigm, says scholar Yagil Levy.
By
Meron Rapoport
February 13, 2024
Israel shirked accountability for decades. Is the ICJ breaking its armor?
From Ben Gurion to Ben Gvir, Israel's dismissiveness of international sanctions has held strong. But the ruling at The Hague may be cracking that impunity.
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Meron Rapoport
February 5, 2024
Will the ICJ find Israel guilty of genocide?
Attorney Michael Sfard outlines what could play out as the world’s top court decides if and how to intervene in Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Meron Rapoport
January 11, 2024
The ‘second Nakba’ government seizes its moment
Israeli leaders are explicit about reusing the methods of 1948 in Gaza today. But what didn’t quell the Palestinians then will not do so now.
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Meron Rapoport
January 2, 2024
Netanyahu is prolonging the war to save his life’s mission
While an endless military operation allows the prime minister to cling to power, it also fulfills a larger ideological goal: preventing Palestinian statehood.
By
Meron Rapoport
November 17, 2023
The end of the Netanyahu doctrine
The prime minister's claim that Middle East peace was possible without the Palestinians has been shattered by Hamas' incursion, and the ensuing war.
By
Meron Rapoport
October 9, 2023
‘It’ll turn campus into an army base’: Tel Aviv University to host soldiers’ program
A collaboration between the Israeli army and TAU has drawn backlash from faculty and Palestinian students decrying the militarization of academia.
By
Meron Rapoport
October 4, 2023
‘I told Arafat: Israel will promise you an inch and not give you a millimeter’
Reflecting on the Oslo Accords 30 years later, veteran politician Hanan Ashrawi recounts her arguments with PLO leaders during the negotiations, and explains why Israel's political crisis is opening cracks in the occupation.
By
Meron Rapoport
September 13, 2023
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