Is the “Democratic Union” Israel’s only party with the guts to say, with Chicken Little, that the sky is falling?

Has the Joint List just violated Israel’s longest standing taboo, the one that says Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Israelis can never be true political allies?

Why will hundreds of thousands of Israelis vote for the squat, severe, plain-spoken Moldovan-born Avigdor Lieberman?

Why will more than a million Israelis vote for Netanyahu and the Likud? (Hint: there are lots of good reasons.)

Who votes for the to-the-right-of-the-Likud Yemina Party, and why?

Why will hundreds of thousands of Israelis vote for the ultra-Orthodox, Sefaradi Shas Party?

What are we to make of the heart-rending Israeli HBO series about the 2014 murders of Jewish kids by Palestinians and a Muslim kid by Jews, that forces us to doubt a lot of what we thought about ourselves?

There’s a new group aiming to politically empower English-speaking Israelis, on the theory that we’ve got a thing or two to teach everyone else. Do Israel’s Brits, Yanks and Aussies offer a way out of the country’s political mess?

Hemingway said, folks go bankrupt gradually, then all at once. Has PM Netanyahu lost his political power in the same way?

Is being a kind-of-a-dick to the Prime Minister’s kid justified, because the Prime Minister is kind-of-a-dick to the rest of us?