Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and...Israel
Israel has an interest in good relations with China, because it’s a power in the Middle East and the world, not to mention a huge market.
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Mark Lavie
- Feb 23
- 4 min
Israel’s turmoil will resolve itself…later
So how bad is it, and can it get worse? Yes, it can, because judicial reform isn’t the only issue here.
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Mark Lavie
- Jan 28
- 4 min
The end of Israeli journalism! Or not.
The huge outpouring of citizen demonstrations is key to forcing the government to dial back on its "cascade of edicts."
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Mark Lavie
- Jan 9
- 4 min
Ben-Gvir on the Temple Mount? No big deal
Allow me to offer advice that many men give their overwrought wives: “Calm down, honey.”
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 15, 2022
- 5 min
What’s wrong with “I won’t support Israel if…”
"...the idea of conditional support for Israel raises questions about the whole relationship between the two sides."
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Mark Lavie
- Sep 11, 2022
- 4 min
Thoughts about turning 75
So is 75 just a number? Not for me. It’s a beginning. Several, in fact.
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Mark Lavie
- Aug 24, 2022
- 4 min
Abbas can't harm peace moves
So disgust, outrage, and revulsion. What no one is expressing is surprise.
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
A dam good way to resolve a conflict
So is this a new way of dealing with international disputes? Complain, denounce, threaten—and leave it at that?
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Mark Lavie
- Feb 9, 2022
- 7 min
Taking Melanie Phillips down
So the neo-Nazis aren’t a problem? The Proud Boys and the heil Hitler salutes aren’t a problem? Only the left?
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 17, 2021
- 4 min
Iran: Look who's fighting the last war
The clear conclusion is—if Iran wants nuclear weapons, it will get them. But that doesn’t mean it will use them.
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Mark Lavie
- Oct 6, 2021
- 4 min
No magic wand to stop Israeli Arab murders
This article appears on The Media Line. No magic wand to stop Israeli Arabs killing each other By Mark Lavie Arab Israelis are clamoring...
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 13, 2021
- 4 min
“Palestinian Spring”? Not such a good deal
It took me a whole book to explain what went wrong (“Broken Spring,” Gefen, 2014), but the parallels with the Palestinians are striking.
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Mark Lavie
- Jun 26, 2021
- 3 min
Oh, no, an article about Israeli "apartheid"
Now how about Israel itself, where it’s common knowledge that Israeli Arabs suffer under the yoke of the oppressive Jewish regime. Not.
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Mark Lavie
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
Nothing has changed
This problem,,,may not have a solution, Nothing Israel can do, or would be permitted to do, would stop the barrages for long.
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 1, 2021
- 4 min
Arab parties should be in Israel’s government
So how about handing one of the social welfare posts to an Arab Cabinet minister…to work on the problems faced by their own constituents?
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Mark Lavie
- Mar 23, 2021
- 1 min
How to vote in Israel's 4th election in 2 years
This morning a friend asked for my advice about the fourth Israeli election in two years. Should he vote for a large party? Should he...
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Mark Lavie
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
How to stop the corona pandemic in Israel
And if (behavior) can be changed for something as trivial as wildflowers, all the more so for a cruel pandemic that has killed thousands.
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Mark Lavie
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
What about the what-aboutism?
My latest article appears here in today's Jerusalem Post: It erupts every time someone posts something that criticizes the riots and...
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 29, 2020
- 4 min
Corona crisis: What would Joseph do?
"...a leader... who puts the interests of his people before his own…would find a better, more humane way to deal with the corona challenge."
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
A “new Middle East” you didn’t see coming
Frustrated by decades of Palestinian obstinacy, moderate Arab nations were finally moving to put the Israeli-Palestinian issue behind them.
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