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Exclusive: Netanyahu at War: Eric Cortellessa, TIME, Aug. 6, 2024 — For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public heard abject admissions of responsibility from the heads of the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet, the country’s domestic security service, but none from Netanyahu, who had been Prime Minister for almost a year when the attack happened, and had presided over a more than 10-year strategy of tacit acceptance of Hamas rule in Gaza.
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Netanyahu’s Place in History: Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, Aug. 26, 2024
‘My Brother’s Keeper’: A Look Inside Israel’s ‘West Wing’: Liat Collins, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 25, 2024
For Israel’s Progressive Elites, The Real War Is Against the Enemy Within: Gadi Taub, JNS, Aug. 8, 2024
How Democratic and Liberal Is Israel’s Radical Left-Wing?: Yisrael Medad, JNS, Aug. 7, 2024
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For Further Reference:
Our Enemies Are Your Enemies, Netanyahu Tells US Congress, Mentions Iran 28 Times: Bharat Shakti, YouTube, July 25, 2024 — Applause all around as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the chamber to address the US Congress.
Police to Again Probe Ehud Barak on Alleged Incitement, Sedition: JNS, Aug. 5, 2024 — Israeli prosecutors are due to decide on whether to prosecute former Prime Minister Ehud Barak on new allegations of incitement and sedition, it emerged on Monday.
LISTEN: Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Service in the Israeli Military: Tikvah, Apr. 5, 2024 — Whether or not haredi Jews should be required to serve in the IDF is a perennial question of Israeli politics, one that has caused political parties to form and disband, governing coalitions to rise and fall.
A Progressive Pogrom – Of Shani Louk, Jean Améry, and the anti-Zionist Left: Jack Omer-Jackaman, Fathom, May 2024 — In this Fathom long read, in the wake of the return of Shani Louk’s body to Israel, Deputy Editor Jack Omer-Jackaman re-reads Jean Améry on left anti-Zionism. He surveys the celebratory responses to the 7 October pogrom from much of the radical left and finds a movement and a caste of mind that has lost even the barest connection to the elementary decency which is the basis of any property left politics.’