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Self-Determination Abnegation?

Is PM Netanyahu’s embrace of US President Trump’s peace plan a decades-long reversal of Israel’s insistence that only it and the Palestinians can resolve the conflict?

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Meanwhile, at the Movies…

Should settler filmmakers get tax shekels to make settler films about settler experiences on settlements?

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Godlessness: The Practice

Avigdor Lieberman and his right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party say that only they will keep Israel “liberal” by beating back the rabbis. Were we wrong to think that the right, by nature, admires religion?

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Godlessness: The Theory

The doyen of Israeli sociology and a major public intellectual J’Accuses the left of swapping out good, Enlightenment values for mamby-pamby postmodern relativism, thereby allowing the rabbis to take over the country. Does she have a point?

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Not Immune

Prime Minister Netanyahu withdraws his request for immunity, and is formally charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Now what?

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A Pax on Both Your Houses

We’ve read US President Trump’s Deal-of-the-Century peace plan, and our considered reaction is, “WTF?!?”

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Pulpitical is the New Political

A rabbi of towering reputation writes that its time to get religion out of politics. Does he have a point?

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It’s the Class Struggle, Stupid!

The editor-in-chief of Ha’aretz runs the numbers and discovers that, for all the talk about identity politics, all you need to understand how Israelis vote and why is your old tattered, dog-eared copy of Das Kapital. Does he have a point?

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Lax Americana?

A former US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, argues it’s time for America to throw in the towel on peace to the Mid-East. As the towel-throwees, what should Israelis think?

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