טאנה נאזאן 2 تنه نزن ۲ .Taneh Nazan 2

OPINION

Editor, Daveed Fakheri

Shut the Majlis, oh Brothers!

Nooshabeh Amiri

The battle that coup perpetrators in Iran are wagging with the other faction on the right which has till now not fully surrendered to the rules of Ahmadinejad’s military-security administration supported by Mr. Khamenei himself, has reached new heights as the fight has turned to seize the country’s largest institution of higher education, Azad University.

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Anniversary of Your Passing…

Massoud Behnoud

The anniversary of your passing, Neda, just came. In the first days of your passing, your murderers believed that nobody would follow up on you and the propaganda machinery of the state decided to pay an Irish woman to make a film pretending to be searching for your murderer, just like a foreign Hollywood movie, but this time they wanted to hide the real murderers and portray those who have been suffering to be the culprit.

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OPINION

In praise of wars of choice

Whoever declares in advance that he is abandoning Israel's traditional combat doctrine - one founded on preemptive counterattack - is actually inviting the enemy to launch its own first strikes.

by Israel Harel33 comments

Life as a soap opera

The time has come to move up a grade. The time has come to grow up and understand that everything is political - that the real solution to our problems is political, and thus the battle can only be political.

by Gideon Levy4 comments

Bolstering Turkel

Turkel must demand not only investigative powers, but also the power to determine factual findings, draw conclusions and make recommendations about both the conduct of the government and the preparations of the military establishment.

Haaretz Editorial12 comments

A bi-delusional state

This land will either be home to two nation-states for two peoples, or one nation-state - a Palestinian Arab state. The concept of a nation-state is not going to disappear from here; it would behoove us to make sure that Israel doesn't disappear.

by Alexander Yakobson105 comments

A personal failure, not a systemic one

The agencies concerned are now faced with the question of what conclusions to draw with regard to those responsible for the grave mishaps that occurred in the Ramon case.

Haaretz Editorial0 comments

Makeup exam

Instead of citing hostile statements from the archives of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Netanyahu needs to present Obama with a practical proposal that can be neatly packaged and marketed.

by Aluf Benn13 comments

Behind the Shalits' back

the protest hiding behind the narrow backs of Aviva and Noam Shalit wants politics, but a different politics - simply politics that will restore them their lost status and weaken the other sectors that are disturbing their rest.

by Avirama Golan3 comments

Why Israeli academia will be boycotted

Education Minister Sa'ar's recent initiatives are a sign of the Israeli government's increasing self-seclusion inside a bunker of delusions, as it distances itself from considerations guided by historical, political and social wisdom. His recent statements befit benighted regimes that have lost connection to the world, like Iran and other totalitarian states.

by Moshe Shoked18 comments

Off the linguistic map

A leading Israeli linguist seeks to erase this country's Arab past in a bid to prove to the entire world that it is under Jewish ownership, and that the Arabs of Jerusalem have no linguistic and spatial identity connecting them to 'terrestrial Jerusalem' and the city where they have been living for generations.

by Amar Dahamshe45 comments

Scandalous plea bargains

After prolonged study, one can establish unequivocally that the State Prosecutor's Office and its district offices make a mockery of morality, flout the law, ignore public sentiment and are lazy. The law is no longer being enforced.

by Gavriel Strasman0 comments

Another neutralized struggle

It has become common in Israel to complain that the public is apathetic and doesn't do anything, that nothing draws it out into the streets. The case of Gilad Shalit exemplifies the extent to which this is in fact inaccurate.

by Merav Michaeli1 comments

Compromise and question marks

Coexistence in a polarized, multicultural society demands compromise, and agreements reached after substantive dialogue between the interested parties, through the shared understanding that the country's laws apply to all.

Haaretz Editorial14 comments

First of all, academic integrity

Circles in the extreme right have been trying for a long time to harm the academic freedom of faculty members in institutions of higher education in Israel. Now it is clear that that academic freedom faces a threat from the extreme left as well.

by Eppie Ya'ar6 comments

The scarecrow

There is a long tradition of frightening people over the release of terrorists. The suggestion of talking to the Palestine Liberation Organization was once an especially frightening scarecrow, as was the establishment of a Palestinian state.

by Gideon Levy

The core of Jewish tradition, without the extremism

It is important to know our roots and background, but at the same time, it is imperative to free ourselves from religious extremism and from cultural and ideological separatism.