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The silver lining of Benny Gantz’s astonishing betrayal
Israeli politicians, with their famous lack of principles and shifting priorities, often make fools of prognosticators trying to discern the direction in which the country is headed. Along the way, they also tend to make fools of their own supporters, or anyone who placed a cautious amount of faith in them. Still, opposition leader Benny…
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Opinion Benny Gantz’s shameful betrayal of Israeli Arabs
In an unexpected turn of events, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main challenger, Benny Gantz, has been elected Knesset speaker. He won this position by securing the votes of the very right-wing groups that have been relentlessly delegitimizing and questioning his leadership for the past 14 months, while his left-wing allies — all of whom…
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Opinion Coronavirus is going to radicalize millennials
This pandemic is going to change us. It’s going to radicalize my generation. It has to radicalize us. I’m a millennial, born roughly in the middle of the millennial generation as defined by demographers. This means one of the first formative events of my childhood was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, followed by the…
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Opinion Dear President Trump: A fellow New Yorker is begging you – Make America COVID free again!
Dear President Trump, I am a native New Yorker, just like you. I grew up in Manhattan and reside in Brooklyn. I am an attorney (yes, one of those people everyone loves to hate) and have a husband and a rescue puppy named Teddy. We are anxious, scared and practicing SOCIAL DISTANCING. SOCIAL DISTANCING! pic.twitter.com/H2jR59wArx…
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Opinion Nationalism got us here
The rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world has led to the largest public health crisis in a generation. Global cases are nearing the 400,000 mark. The virus has brought the global economy to its knees, with economists increasingly in fear of a lasting depression. President Trump has consistently been a source of misinformation during…
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Opinion In the age of coronavirus, Israel’s blockade of Gaza is a death sentence
Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on earth, has become a ghost town. #صور l من شوارع #غزة عقب قرار وزارة الصحة بإغلاق المقاهي والأسواق والأماكن العامّة كإجراء احترازي لمنع تفشّي #فيروس_كورونا في القطاع.#Gaza #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/D0CrvIPMQ2 — بوابة اللاجئين الفلسطينيين (@refugeesps) March 22, 2020 On Sunday, after two people tested positive for COVID-19,…
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Opinion I’m just so angry
I’m angry and I can’t help but be angry about what this country faces. I’m not angry at the coronavirus that threatens to cause so much havoc it might unleash a second Great Depression. It’s just a virus, after all, that likely lurked in a bat somewhere in China until it was transferred into another…
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Opinion Netanyahu is using coronavirus to assault Israel’s democracy
It is understandable in a crisis such as the current pandemic that countries will declare states of emergency or impose emergency regulations. Removing red-tape, repurposing government agencies (including the military), and even restricting people’s movement are necessary to combat the rapid spread of the virus. But we should be extremely wary of the overreach of…
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Opinion Israel must act now to prevent a coronavirus disaster in Gaza
Gazans used to joke that Israel’s blockade, which keeps out the world, will keep out the coronavirus — wishful thinking, it turned out; the coronavirus has finally come to Gaza. The results may be catastrophic, and Israel has a unique role in assisting current and future patients in Gaza. After 13 years of blockade imposed…
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Opinion Coronavirus is no excuse to demonize Haredim
In the endless stream of stories about the COVID-19 pandemic, an unsettling sub-plot has been the actions, or lack thereof, of various Haredi groups in the New York metropolitan area. Reports of a swarm of positive test results in Borough Park and Williamsburg have raised fears of a cluster outbreak, triggered by a small number…
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Opinion ‘We rehearse for this all the time’: Holocaust survivors face coronavirus with grit and humor
For Cordula Hahn, a Holocaust survivor in Brooklyn, the first trigger was the lack of toilet paper. “Oh, no, will I have to go back using newspaper?” she asks, half chuckling. “That’s what we did when we were in hiding in the Netherlands, and seeing the panic over toilet paper immediately brought back that memory.”…
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