Shlomi Eldar |
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
Kilometers of fine roads testify to the fact that illegal outposts in the West Bank flourish under the auspices of the Israeli government. |
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Monday, May 20, 2013 |
The Israeli commission investigating the death of Palestinian child Muhammad al-Durrah, should have been established in 2000, and not last year. |
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 |
The sudden change in assumptions on the Syrian war should invite us to wonder about the basis on which they were made. |
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
A report from the settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah. |
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
A petition brought by human rights organizations to the Supreme Court has drawn attention to allegations of the IDF using phosphorus bombs during Operation Cast Lead. |
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Monday, May 13, 2013 |
US Secretary of State John Kerry, hoping to jump-start the peace process, brought a compromise proposal to Jerusalem and Ramallah last week. |
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Friday, May 10, 2013 |
Professor Eyal Zisser, expert on Syria, explains to Shlomi Eldar the divisions and discord among the Kurds living where the Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish borders converge, and how this will impact the future of Syria. |
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 |
Egyptian prisoners in Israeli jails are launching a hunger strike, in the hope that Cairo starts taking interest in their plight, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Monday, May 6, 2013 |
The attack in Syria may be considered a short term military success, but in the long run it might prove costly, based upon the lessons from previous Israeli military interventions, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, May 5, 2013 |
In an interview with Shlomi Eldar, professor Kais Firro, an authority on Syria and Lebanon, claims that the Syrian regime can finally argue that Israel is the puppet master behind the uprising. |
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar considers Qatar's promoting peace based on compromises between Israel and the Palestinians while promoting a sectarian Islamic agenda by supporting armed groups in Syria. |
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Monday, Apr 29, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar argues that with the upcoming elections in Iran, the international community should try another, more conciliatory approach. |
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Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar wonders why the world waits for the use of chemical weapons to launch a military operation ending the bloodshed in Syria. |
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Friday, Apr 26, 2013 |
The drone sent by Hezbollah to Israel must be interpreted as an outcry for survival by its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar, visiting an archeological biblical site in Samaria, discusses with a Korean scholar the similarities between Israel and South Korea. |
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Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 |
After 12 years in Egyptian prison, Israeli Ouda Tarabin embarks on a hunger strike as a last resort to awaken public opinion, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 |
Instead of rejecting African immigrants, Israel should integrate them, becoming a multicultural society such as in Europe, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, Apr 21, 2013 |
In contrast to the revival of Hebrew studies in Gaza, Israeli students are reluctant to learn Arabic, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar responds to Daoud Kuttab’s article, and notes other reasons for the Palestinian prime minister’s resignation. |
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Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 |
With its headquarters in Qatar, Hamas will have to accept the spirit and direction of its new patron, Emir Hamed Bin Khalifa Al Thani, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Monday, Apr 15, 2013 |
Israeli women take turns visiting Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi at Kaplan Hospital, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar reports from the Golan Heights that Druze there are just as divided about events in Syria as residents of the country. |
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Monday, Apr 8, 2013 |
Hamas and Hezbollah leaders find themselves on opposite sides of the war in Syria, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 |
Following the assault on an Al Jazeera crew in the Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin, Shlomi Eldar wonders why the Qatari news network is considered as the “bad guy” when it comes to Syria. |
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Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 |
In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, the deputy foreign minister of the Hamas government, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, explains the far-reaching change in attitudes under way in his movement and the unchanged approach of not recognizing Israel. |
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Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar has learned that Mahmoud al-Zahar, a rival of Khaled Meshaal, has been removed from the Hamas political bureau. |
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Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 |
The Israeli military operation in Gaza positioned Khaled Meshaal, head of the Hamas political bureau, to be re-elected to the leadership of Hamas, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 |
In an interview with Shlomi Eldar, Yara Mashour, editor of the Arabic-language magazine Lilac, describes herself as a liberated woman who is not afraid of shattering conventions, both in Arab and Israeli society. |
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Friday, Mar 29, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar is surprised to discover an Israeli flag fluttering beside the Iranian flag at the well-known tourist site of Mount Tahtali, Turkey. |
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Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 |
Sheikha Mozah, the second wife of the Emir of Qatar, is the principal benefactor behind a new foundation which aims to improve the lives of Arab Israeli students, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 |
The announcement of a historic reconciliation between Turkey and Israel catches Shlomi Eldar in the middle of a family vacation in Antalya. |
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Friday, Mar 22, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar considers what a meeting between former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and current US president Barack Obama would have looked like, being reminded of Begin’s meetings with President Jimmy Carter, which paved the way for a peace agreement with Egypt. |
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Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar responds to Daoud Kuttab’s call to President Barack Obama to leave a wreath on Yasser Arafat’s grave. |
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Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 |
With the death of the “Mother of Martyrs,” Mariam Farhat, who sent her sons to commit suicide attacks in Israel, Shlomi Eldar hopes that her legacy of bloodshed will not survive her. |
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Sunday, Mar 17, 2013 |
Ben Gurion University of the Negev invites researchers to submit proposals for its "Business for Peace" competition to support the Palestinian economy, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 |
In an interview with Shlomi Eldar, senior Fatah member Dr. Sufian Abu Zaida reveals that he isn’t placing much hope in the US president’s visit — or in the new Israeli government, for that matter. |
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Tuesday, Mar 12, 2013 |
After 10 years, Shlomi Eldar returns to Nablus and discovers it different from the city he remembers from the second intifada. |
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Monday, Mar 11, 2013 |
As a step toward international recognition, Hamas is seeking to be removed from the US terrorist organizations list, and for that purpose even considers acknowledging Israel in its 1967 borders, reveals Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar writes that a film clip showing Syrian rebels shooting into the air along the Golan border offers an ominous signal to the world, and especially to Israel. |
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Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 |
Amal Abu Sayyaf, a doctoral candidate from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, levels some harsh charges against the tolerance shown by Israeli society toward the phenomenon of oppressed Arab women, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013 |
Rabbi Menachem Froman, who died March 5, believed that only religious leaders could resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as Shlomi Eldar recalls. |
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Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar comments on a Hebrew-language Iranian website intended to influence Israeli public opinion, recalling the Egyptian radio station that broadcast propaganda in Hebrew in the 60s. |
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Monday, Mar 4, 2013 |
The attack on an Israeli-Arab sanitation worker in Tel Aviv last week has underlined racism inherent in parts of Israeli society and brought to light those who are fighting it, reports Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, Mar 3, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar offers a reminder of the Armenian genocide in asserting that accusations against Zionism by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan exhibit hatred and hypocrisy. |
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Friday, Mar 1, 2013 |
From a vibrant bi-national city into gated developments for rich Jews, Rifaat Turk tells Shlomi Eldar all about the recent changes in Jaffa. |
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Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 |
Israel doesn’t understand the depth of the problem but, as Shlomi Eldar determines, the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israel is the Achilles heel of any peace agreement and could set the region on fire again. |
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Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 |
Rifaat Turk, Israel’s first Arab soccer superstar, who paved the way for dozens of Arab players, tells Shlomi Eldar about the racism and challenges he has faced. |
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Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 |
The West Bank is seeing a new spike in protests and violence, but Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) still offers the best hope to avoid a third intifada, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 |
When the IDF assisted seven wounded Syrian rebels who reached the Israeli border, it was a one-time event, but Shlomi Eldar suggests that Israel open a field hospital to plant the seeds of reconciliation. |
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Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 |
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has again threatened Israel, but the threats may stem from Hezbollah's fortunes declining as a result of the war in Syria, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 |
Israel’s failed attempt to block information about the arrest and suicide of Mossad agent Ben Zygier causes Shlomi Eldar to return to his childhood and the BBC’s Arabic News. |
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Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar wonders about the political impact of Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi's hunger strike, going on for more than 200 days. |
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Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 |
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat explains that a freeze on Israeli settlement activity is a condition for resuming negotiations with Israel in an interview with Shlomi Eldar. |
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Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar writes that the economic stranglehold failed to take down the Hamas government, and it may yet be the economy that restores broken bridges between the two peoples. |
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Sunday, Feb 10, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar wonders why former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon suddenly supports a Palestinian state. |
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Friday, Feb 8, 2013 |
Author Sayed Kashua hides pain within his humor, and reveals to interviewer Shlomi Eldar what it is like to live in two worlds. |
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Thursday, Feb 7, 2013 |
The embrace between the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the wrong gesture, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar writes a personal letter to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who recently wondered publicly why Assad didn’t respond to the attack on Syria attributed to Israel. |
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Friday, Feb 1, 2013 |
For Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, there is no contradiction between attempting to reach a political agreement and the vision of Greater Palestine, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 |
After fans of Beitar Jerusalem's soccer team demonstrated against the signing of two Muslim players this week, Shlomi Eldar writes that such racism remains a problem in Israeli sports and society. |
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Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 |
As Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is preoccupied with the political crisis in Egypt, Israel should take the initiative in jump-starting talks with the Palestinians, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Monday, Jan 28, 2013 |
Shlomi Eldar writes that soon, Yair Lapid should call Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and that social justice in Israel will only result from renewed peace talks. |
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Friday, Jan 25, 2013 |
The Israeli Arabs' abstention from voting expressed a much more profound disappointment in their own Knesset members than in the Israeli electoral system, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Sunday, Jan 20, 2013 |
While Gaza seems to ignore the Israeli elections, Palestinian leaders in the West Bank worry about the emergence of a right-wing coalition government, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 |
Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream, explains to interviewer Shlomi Eldar why he challenged the rules of official protocol at the president's house, and protested on behalf of his Palestinian employees who were searched like criminal suspects before meeting the president. |
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Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013 |
Television reality shows have become the only meeting point between Jewish and Arab Israelis, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 |
In an interview with Shlomi Eldar, Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi realizes that he infuriates many Jewish Israelis, but he has no plans to apologize. |
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Monday, Jan 7, 2013 |
The rally in support of Fatah in Gaza last week does not necessarily mean reconciliation; it might be a sign of Hamas' ambitions in the West Bank, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 |
The decision to forbid local reporters in Gaza from working for Israeli media outlets will only deepen the sense of estrangement and alienation between Israelis and Palestinians, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Monday, Dec 31, 2012 |
In the documentary "The Gatekeepers," six former heads of the Shin Bet reveal who is in charge of keeping Israel's security gates, giving viewers a rude awakening, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 |
For the second time in four months, the IDF opened the crossing points, allowing thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank to visit Israel, a rare opportunity to cross the physical and psychological fence separating both people, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 |
Shlomi Eldar writes that post-Assad Syria will be a vast campaign of retaliation. |
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Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 |
Knesset Member Haneen Zoabi takes advantage of Israeli democracy and undermines Israel’s relations with its Arab citizens, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Friday, Dec 21, 2012 |
In an interview with Shlomi Eldar, NGO Ir Amim Executive Director Yehudit Oppenheimer expresses her concern that Israel has already reached the point of no return in approving construction plans east of Jerusalem and erasing any hope for a future agreement with the Palestinians. |
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 |
Hamas seeks to heat up the flame of a third Intifada, but are the Fatah leaders interested in another round of violence, wonders Shlomi Eldar. |
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Monday, Dec 10, 2012 |
Khaled Meshaal, chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, has arrived in Gaza for the first time in his life. Shlomi Eldar reports that he avoided questions about his past and present policies. |
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Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 |
Israel has made a mistake by not engaging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, writes Shlomi Eldar. |
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Monday, Nov 19, 2012 |
Shlomi Eldar writes that the assassination of Hamas military chief Ahmad Jabari foreshadows a likely radicalization of Hamas's leadership. |
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