Monthly Archives: May 2016

  • As an Israeli  citizen I closely follow politics at home and am used to witness the tough and bare-knuckle political fights. But the events of the last 48 hours exceed even the worst expectations of hardball politics. Moshe Yaalon Israel’s defense minister and former Chief of Staff, announced his resignation on Friday, saying the governing […]

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  • In a bombshell speech in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday evening, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen.Yair Golan likened recent developments in Israeli society to processes that unfolded in Europe before the Holocaust. “If there’s something that frightens me about Holocaust remembrance it’s the recognition of the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, […]

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