To the Israeli Press, Pronouncements by Generals Are Non-Political So Long as They’re Politically Correct
Any other positions are “political.”
February 25, 2019
A New Political Alliance Mounts a Credible Threat to Benjamin Netanyahu
But the election remains his to lose.
Last Thursday, two major centrist Israeli political parties announced they would run as a joint list in the April 9 elections: the secular Yesh Atid party and the newly formed Israel Resilience, which serves as a vehicle for the candidacy of the former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz. Polls show the new bloc, which calls itself Blue and White, garnering roughly the same number of votes as the incumbent Likud. Thus, writes Joshua Krasna, Blue and White poses a more serious challenge to Benjamin Netanyahu than anything seen from the moribund left and divided center in recent elections. But the current prime minister still has many advantages:
February 25, 2019
A New Political Alliance Mounts a Credible Threat to Benjamin Netanyahu
But the election remains his to lose.
Qatar’s Increasingly Tenuous Alliance with Iran
Will it stand up to mounting pressure from the U.S. and the Saudis?
Was Saul Bellow a Novelist of Ideas?
The second volume of a new biography sheds some light on the question.
The Newest Trend in Religious Intolerance Seeks to Drive Traditional Christians Out of Hollywood
Don’t go to a church that doesn’t “affirm” gay marriage.
