Redefining Israel's way out of Gaza
If Israel declares the current conflict a “battle,” ...Israel can withdraw its forces from Gaza, get as many hostages as it can.
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Mark Lavie
- Aug 19
- 4 min
US-Israel? Nothing personal--it's interests
Israel has to make its alignment with the new coalition a key part of its overall diplomatic and military policy.
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 30
- 4 min
Israel falls into two traps--Now what?
Cooler heads counsel signing a hostages-for-prisoners deal with Hamas and pulling Israeli forces out of Gaza, and then deal with Hezbollah.
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Mark Lavie
- Jul 14
- 4 min
Israel's inquiry into Oct. 7--trauma reinforced
Israelis have to juggle personal joys with an overwhelming collection of negative feelings: Disillusion, anger, mistrust, and sadness.
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Mark Lavie
- May 7
- 4 min
Dealing with antisemitism on US campuses
The Jewish community needs to mobilize like never before, enlist the best academic minds, and pull together to make this happen...
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 17
- 4 min
A wise Israeli retaliatory strike against Iran
The brains method means a reliance on cyber-attacks, which could shut down Iran for weeks or months.
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Iran attacks, Israel defends with near perfection
(No one) believed either that Iran would fire hundreds of things at Israel, or that Israel and its friends would shoot them all down.
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Mark Lavie
- Apr 1
- 4 min
How to end the Gaza war now
Qatar is a thumb extending into the Persian Gulf. A better description would be a middle finger extended to the world.
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Mark Lavie
- Mar 23
- 4 min
Senator Schumer has put Israel in danger
That’s because it’s not all about Gaza. A horrible conflict with Lebanon is looming on the horizon, and he has brought it closer.
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Mark Lavie
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Who’s afraid of a Palestinian state?
2. Israel would do itself a favor by taking part in the process of negotiating toward a Palestinian state...
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Mark Lavie
- Feb 5
- 4 min
UNRWA—just a terrorism-tainted symptom
How is it that the Palestinians want a state, and at the same time, they want the majority of their people to live in someone else's state?
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Mark Lavie
- Jan 26
- 4 min
Israel: Consider the options, then decide
What is not valid is the constant drumbeat of bombastic pronouncements about what Israel won’t accept.
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Mark Lavie
- Jan 15
- 3 min
The real Gaza, by a journalist who served in the IDF there:
"If it's a siege, let me live in a siege. the houses are bursting with goods and food from all countries of the Middle East..."
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 25, 2023
- 4 min
Gaza: Not the day after—the decade after
...this isn’t only about Gaza. For an arrangement to succeed over the long run, it has to include the rest of the parties.,,
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Mark Lavie
- Dec 6, 2023
- 4 min
Present at the creation—Hamas
A quick read through the Hamas charter revealed deep hatred for Israel, Jews, and Zionism from an Islamic religious point of view...
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Mark Lavie
- Nov 16, 2023
- 4 min
Netanyahu must go—but will he?
All of this happened on his watch. So whether he admits of not, he is ultimately responsible.
But he doesn’t accept that.
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Mark Lavie
- Nov 5, 2023
- 2 min
Another rocket attack on my city
When we hear asiren, we have about 90 seconds to get into our protected rooms before rockets hit, because our city is 50 km from Gaza.
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Mark Lavie
- Oct 31, 2023
- 3 min
“Iron Dome” saves Palestinian lives, too
Iron Dome has radically changed the equation. We think of it as protecting Israelis from Hamas rockets. That’s only part of the story...
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Mark Lavie
- Oct 19, 2023
- 4 min
Who blew up the Gaza hospital? It doesn’t matter
It doesn’t matter who blew up the hospital—because we are in a “post-truth” era, when facts don’t matter.
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Mark Lavie
- Oct 11, 2023
- 4 min
Hamas has killed the two-state solution
Hamas is responsible for these despicable crimes. But the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas, is also to blame.
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