David Hazony
By David Hazony
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Opinion This Is The Least Important Israeli Election Ever
When you have seen as many Israeli elections as I have, patterns repeat. Every party spends a few months feeling out their electorate, dramatically overplaying the dangers of their opponents, and fighting internal battles for leadership. In the final month, you get TV ads, building-sized posters, overblown and suspiciously timed leaks, dramatic yet empty policy…
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Opinion Give Trump’s Peace Deal A Chance
We know little about the coming plan for Middle East peace being offered by the Trump Administration, but the pre-emptive strikes against it have begun. “Dead on arrival” is a phrase we’re hearing a lot these days. It’s odd: If the White House is trying to resolve the century-long conflict between Jews and Arabs, should…
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Opinion Why Netanyahu Is Going To Win. Again.
Why would any sane person vote for Benjamin Netanyahu? It’s a question one hears a lot, particularly from dovish American Jews. Bibi is corrupt, they say. He is racist. He’s been in power too long. He’s ruined relations with the U.S. and turned Israel into a partisan issue. He has transformed the wonderful old Israel…
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Opinion Everything You’ve Heard About Israel’s Nation State Bill Is Wrong
Israel’s new Nation State Law, which passed last week with the aim of affirming the country’s Jewish character, has come under considerable fire. The new legislation is made up of mostly symbolic declarations that reaffirm the symbolism, calendar, and meaning of the “Jewish State.” And it took about eleven seconds before critics went ballistic. Ahmed…
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Opinion Why Israel’s Sudden Baseball Prowess Actually Means Something
No, there are no Sabras on the team. In fact, most Israelis are unaware they even have a national baseball team. Or how the game is played. Unlike American football, which attracts a small but growing fan base, baseball is for Israelis what cricket is for Americans: not a thing. Yet suddenly, the Star of…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Opinion Shimon Peres Was the Most Romantic Zionist Dreamer Since Theodor Herzl
Anyone who came of political age in the 1980s or 1990s and followed Israel closely will have complex feelings about Shimon Peres. Like so many great democratic leaders, he was also a politician, and in the thick of the country’s internal battles he was never seen inside his own country through the same lens as…
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Opinion One-Year-Old Iran Deal Came With a Hefty Price Tag — in Human Lives
A crazy, cunning man named Max is terrorizing your town. Max — who likes to go by “Supreme Leader” — has a long history of violent assaults, extortion and robbery. He’s been jailed, fined, publicly humiliated. But with a winning smile and an uncanny ability to sound reasonable, he manages to recruit followers who are…
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