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Primary Dolours

Effusive reporters described Israeli primaries as a “celebration of democracy.” Others, like former Labor PM Ehud Barak, expressed their antipathy for the process. Are primaries good or bad for Israeli democracy? If not through primaries, then how ought Knesset candidates be chosen?

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Being Black

The rage and heartache of Ethiopian-Israelis came front and center as they protest police brutality and so much else. How are we – three white folks – ought to understand their pain and rage?

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Likud Renewed, Dude!

The Likud primaries are here! We wonder what composite portrait they paint of the heart, soul and physiognomy of the party.

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Some Jews are Arabs, Too

An appeal has been brought before the Supreme Court to overturn the Nation-State Law on the grounds that downgrading Arabic also discriminates against Mizrahi Jews. Is this the winning argument against the bill?

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The Change We Seek

MK Dov Khenin resigned on the grounds that there are better ways to bring political change than the Knesset. Is he on to something?

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Morriskeit

Historian Benny Morris, on his retirement from teaching, predicts that in a generation’s time, Jews will become a persecuted minority in Palestine, because Palestinians will never accept a Jewish state on this embattled land. What should we make of his dismal prediction?

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1,364 Dead Terrorists

Former IDF Chief of Staff and present candidate for Prime Minister Benny Gans boasts in his campaign videos of killing 1,364 terrorists and destroying whole city blocks in the Gaza war in 2014. Do body-counts have a place in political campaigns?

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No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’?

Journalist and best-selling author Matti Friedman argues in the New York Times that if you think of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians “as a problem that can be solved by an agreement between them,” then you don’t understand it.

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