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 194 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 304 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 144 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
Apr 141 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
Mar 234 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 224 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 54 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 264 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 153 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, 20234 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, 20234 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, 20234 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
Jul 7, 20234 min
Little good from Israel’s operation in Jenin
We’ve been here so many times that the conclusion is obvious: None of this is permanent.
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Mark Lavie
May 14, 20234 min
Have the mass protests weakened Israel?
Israel’s enemies are misinformed.
The promoters of this theory are misinformed.
And/or the government knows the charge is false.
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Mark Lavie
Apr 20, 20234 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
Feb 23, 20234 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, 20234 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, 20234 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
Nov 27, 20191 min
"Embattled" Bibi's failed demo
"After such efforts...anything less than 100.000 (demonstrators) would have been a failure."
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