Author: Gideon Levy

Haaretz | Opinion Feb 27, 2025 12:35 am IST Feb 27, 2025 12:35 am IST Something is happening for the first time in Israeli history. One war has yet to fully die down, but Israel is already stoking the next one. We have been denied the luxury of a moment to breathe or a bit…

Haaretz | Opinion Feb 16, 2025 1:47 am IST Feb 16, 2025 1:47 am IST A picture is worth a thousand words: Hundreds of Palestinian detainees and prisoners who were released on Saturday are seen on their knees, in prison, wearing white T-shirts bearing a blue Star of David and the words “we will not…

Haaretz | Opinion Feb 12, 2025 11:54 pm IST Feb 12, 2025 11:54 pm IST And what if U.S. President Donald Trump suggested setting up death camps for the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip? What would happen then? Israel would respond exactly as it did to his transfer ideas, with ecstasy on the right and…

Haaretz | Opinion Jan 9, 2025 3:07 am IST Jan 9, 2025 3:07 am IST Last week, the photographer Alex Levac and I visited the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus to investigate the circumstances of the killing of two innocent civilians in an operation by the army’s undercover counterterrorism Duvdevan…

Haaretz | Opinion Jan 5, 2025 3:16 am IST Jan 5, 2025 3:16 am IST Etzel Haturki (At the Turk’s) is a well-known shawarma place in the central Israeli city of Or Yehuda, and there is nothing Turkish about it: It looks simple, though the prices are not so cheap, with a host at the…

Haaretz | Opinion Jan 2, 2025 2:16 am IST Jan 2, 2025 2:16 am IST If the military police don’t immediately open an investigation into the conduct of Brig. Gen. Yehuda Vach, if Vach isn’t immediately suspended from his post as commander of the 252nd Division and detained for questioning, if the army doesn’t immediately…

Haaretz | Opinion Dec 11, 2024 11:49 pm IST Dec 11, 2024 11:49 pm IST Predatory birds are now circling around in Syria’s skies, smelling the stench of the corpses lying around and descending to get their share. Israel’s air force is bombing and destroying the Syrian army, with Israel’s land army seizing chunks of…

Conversations with a friend in Gaza, now sheltering in the Muwasi DP camp. He’s 62, eats once a day and gets life-saving medicine from the ‘terrorist’ UNRWA. At the camp, they’re waiting for Trump: Either he’ll kill us or he’ll end the war, says the friend Nov 23, 2024 8:20 am IST Nov 23, 2024…