Of course there are solutions for Gaza!
Work toward a regional solution with permanent borders for Israel and the Palestinians, while supporting the Israelis in rocket range.
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 20
- 4 min
No, Israel’s democracy is not falling
Israel’s center-left has reawakened. To coin an old phrase, it’s the “New Left.”
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Mark Lavie
- Mar 19
- 4 min
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
"Embattled" Bibi's failed demo
"After such efforts...anything less than 100.000 (demonstrators) would have been a failure."
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Mark Lavie
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Join my February book/lecture tour!
"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."
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