Netanyahu insists not all criticism of president Rivlin is incitement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed accusations Monday that the vitriolic criticism being leveled against President Reuven Rivlin over his refusal on Sunday to grant Elor Azaria a pardon necessarily constitutes More...
Uri Avnery: The Most Moral Army
A FEW days ago I happened upon an excellent British movie, “Testament of Youth”, based on the memoirs of Vera Brittain. Vera tells her story, the story of a British girl who grew up in a bourgeois More...
South African minister: IDF a ‘murderous machine’
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has called the South African ambassador to Israel to be officially reprimanded following statements made by two senior officials in the government accusing Israel of practicing More...
Uri Avnery: Elor Azaria The Great Rift
I BELIEVE I was the first to recommend that the soldier Elor Azaria, the killer of Hebron, be granted a pardon. But this recommendation was conditional on several requirements: first, that the soldier openly More...
B’Tselem ensuring that we don’t lose our humanity
On July 12, 2007, in one of Baghdad’s suburbs, two of Reuters news agency’s local staffers were killed in an airstrike carried out by American helicopters along with 14 other people, including children. More...
Israel’s newest MK: God thought I have things to do in the Knesset
It was only a year and a half ago that right-wing activist Yehuda Glick was dangling between life and death. After being shot point-blank four times by a terrorist, he managed to utter “Shema yisrael” More...
Ya’alon leaves Defense Ministry: Netanyahu abandoned me
Moshe Ya’alon will leave the Defense Ministry on Sunday, but unlike previous reshuffles, the new minister will not be present at the farewell ceremonies, nor will Ya’alon brief the incoming More...
Trial of Hebron soldier who shot neutralized terrorist to begin
The trial Sergeant Elor Azaria, the Kfir Brigade soldier who shot dead an already-neutralized terrorist in Hebron last March, begins Monday morning at Jaffa Military Court. Azaria was charged with manslaughter More...