Haviv Rettig Gur is the senior analyst for the Times of Israel.
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A recording and transcript of our subscriber-only July event on how Israel investigates itself are now available.
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When push comes to shove, the politicians always win.
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Despite challenges to its electoral system, its prime minister, and its relations with Palestinian Arabs, the answer is no.
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Israel's supreme court, and its overreaching and overactive judiciary in general, are not the cause but the symptom of a larger predicament.
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Daniel Polisar's findings suggest it is not only Westerners who reduce Palestinians to passive figurines, but Palestinians themselves.
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Some nations are united by a strong founding document. Israelis have only themselves, and that has been enough.
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Israel's prime minister has indicated it might shelve the two-state solution. How would the world react, and how much would it matter?
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Have Israeli Jews really lost their self-confident, forward-looking spirit?
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