According to a Maariv poll conducted by Lazar Research, headed by Dr. Menachem Lazar in cooperation with Panel4All, and published last Friday, 66% of the public believe that the blame for the failure of the negotiations on a partial hostage deal lies at least partly with Hamas (44% exclusively, 22% mainly), while only 15% place קראו עוד…

Benjamin Netanyahu tends to mock the word “strategy.” The Prime Minister even mimics Yinon Magal sarcastically saying the word “strategy.” Netanyahu likes to tell the story of a book his father gave him when he was 17, written by a Harvard professor, which argued that there’s no need to define goals. The book had a קראו עוד…

On Thursday evening, Haaretz and i24 reported that the police say they recommend closing the investigation against Miri Regev. I am, of course, not an objective party, since I was the one who published the original exposé, but I found it strange that they bothered to release this information late on a Thursday evening — קראו עוד…

Gidi Weitz is right (“Haaretz,” July 10) — the situation is depressing. The public is tired, the judiciary is weak, and Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides are at the peak of their madness. But I want to disagree with the last sentence in his article. Weitz wrote: “It seems there’s no one left to prevent קראו עוד…

Before October 7, a discussion took place in the cabinet about the situation in the West Bank. "You need to think differently," Finance Minister Smotrich threw at Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. "Maybe it's good for us that Hamas rules the West Bank?" Yes, the statement that "Hamas is an asset" was not accidental — קראו עוד…