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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Mark Lavie
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
Let's start a Facebook revolution!
"All I ask is that you respond in kind. If you can’t or don’t want to do that, feel free to unfriend me. Or I'll save you the trouble."
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Mark Lavie
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
Excerpt from "Throw away the axioms"
...In the Mideast, public statements play a different role than they do in the West. In the US, reporters dutifully tote up campaign...
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Mark Lavie
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
A good plan to beat COVID-19 in Israel
Here's a sensible plan of action for Israel to replace the dithering and politicking that's been screwing up everything.
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
Halacha and COVID-19—fateful choices
How long until people rebel against this unreasonable behavior and either stop taking part in services or try a different stream of Judaism?
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
Coronavirus: Not all bad...
",,,no more huge, ear-splitting weddings, crowded bars, and shoulder-to-elbow restaurants...that's not a bad thing."
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