This is a debate that has stayed with me. The year was 2003: Should the United States invade Iraq? A friend of mine, an American diplomat, strongly opposed the invasion. I argued that if the United States claimed to serve as the world’s policeman, it could not refrain from delivering justice to a dictator who קראו עוד…

Last Week’s Polls Showed Just How Much the Formation of a Joint List of the Arab Parties Could, Paradoxically, Pose a Real Threat to the Chances of Replacing Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government. The prime minister was euphoric over those polls, and understandably so from his perspective. The Change bloc moved further away from 61 seats. In קראו עוד…

  It was a perfect trap for Mansour Abbas. The embodiment of all his concerns. A commitment to a Joint List, raising hands alongside Sami Abu Shehadeh of Balad. Abbas knows Israeli society well. He knew Likud would seize on that image and that he would receive no support from the other camp, which keeps קראו עוד…

The Grunis Committee, which is supposed to approve Roman Gofman's appointment as head of the Mossad, does not, unfortunately, examine the candidate's suitability. Gofman is, to put it mildly, unfit for the position. It does, however, examine the "Boy Affair" — and rightly so.   The story of the recruitment of a 16- or 17-year-old קראו עוד…

Moti Sandler, an associate of Isaac Herzog, broke decades of silence and gave an interview to Sefi Ovadia on Uvda. Why? Because, according to him, Herzog is about to grant Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon as the result of an alleged deal supposedly struck three weeks before Herzog was elected president — and Sandler is determined קראו עוד…