Author: Amir Tibon
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Trump will unleash hell if Hamas doesn’t release the hostages. What would that look like?
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | Benjamin Netanyahu is betting that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pressure campaign will bring Hamas to its knees. But the prime minister has been wrong many times before about the impact of different events on the group’s negotiating positions Jan 9, 2025 10:32 am IST Jan 9, 2025 10:32 am…
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French Far-right Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Antisemite and Holocaust Denier, Dies at 96
World News | Europe For decades, Israel refused to have any official ties with the French far right under Le Pen, an antisemitic politician who denied the Holocaust and said the gas chambers at Auschwitz were merely a ‘marginal detail’ in history Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National…
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The Hostage List That Sent Israel Into Turmoil: Everything You Need to Know
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | A list of the 34 hostages who would be released in a deal between Israel and Hamas has triggered intense drama in Israel – and a gut-wrenching situation for families of hostages. So what is this list? Does it indicate Gaza cease-fire negotiations are progressing? And where does President-elect…
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How a War Crimes Arrest Warrant in Brazil Sent Israel Into Panic Mode
Israel News | Haaretz Today Haaretz Today | The Israeli government has very few options when arrest warrants are issued internationally against soldiers who served in Gaza and Lebanon – but it isn’t even deploying those at the moment Jan 5, 2025 7:33 pm IST Jan 5, 2025 7:33 pm IST It’s rare for the…
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Yoav Gallant, Once Israel’s Top Soldier, Flees the Battlefield
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | As defense minister, the man who was once tapped to be IDF chief of staff fought bravely against Netanyahu’s bid to undermine the judiciary. But his resignation from the Knesset is a move to keep his political career alive and will actually make life easier for the hard-right government…
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Two Murdered Hostages and a Fallen Soldier: The People Who Best Represent Israel in 2024
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat and Yuval Shoham’s deaths are the story of the year – a year in which the value of human life sank to its lowest point in Israel’s history, while the prominence of political considerations rose to an all-time high Dec 31, 2024 10:38 pm IST Dec 31, 2024 10:38 pm IST…
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Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup Is Back. Why Now, and Why Is It Worse Than Before?
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | Justice Minister Yariv Levin has just decided to revive the Israeli government’s efforts to control appointment of judges and justices, threatening to take Israelis back to the turmoil of 2023 – but with an added, terrible twist Dec 15, 2024 10:01 pm IST Dec 15, 2024 10:01 pm IST…
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Israel Just Closed Its Embassy in Ireland. It’s a Win for Gimmicks Over Diplomacy
Israel News | Haaretz Today Haaretz Today | The biggest thing to come out of Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s decision to close the Israeli embassy in Dublin are the headlines themselves. Perhaps that was the intention from the start Dec 15, 2024 8:22 pm IST Dec 15, 2024 8:22 pm IST Israel announced Sunday that…
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Israeli FM orders closing of Dublin embassy following decision to join ICJ petition
Haaretz | Israel News Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar stated that the decision was prompted by the Irish government’s ‘extreme anti-Israeli policy,’citing its choice to join the ICJ petition Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced the closure of Israel’s embassy in Ireland in response to the Irish government’s joining a petition against Israel at the International…
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Will UNDOF, the Peacekeeping Force on the Israel-Syria Border, Survive the Fall of Assad?
Haaretz | Middle East News Analysis | The UN Force on the Israel-Syria border recently celebrated its 50 year anniversary. But after the collapse of the Assad regime and Israel’s incursion in the buffer zone, the international force is left with a weak mandate and an uncertain future Dec 9, 2024 9:32 pm IST Dec…