When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer. “I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown on the map. I didn’t show the Jordan River. It’s not on this map.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on August 26, to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al Haram Al-Sharif.Ben-Gvir, as a representation of Israel's powerful religious Zionist class in the government and society at large, has been candid regarding

Departing Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan clearly had an unpleasant experience at the world’s largest international institution.In an interview published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv on August 20, the disgruntled envoy said that “the UN building should be

 Promises of "absolute victory" in Gaza are nothing but "gibberish", according to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

On October 25, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore”.It might sound odd that Feiglin saw the element of fear as critical to Israel’s well-being if not its very survival.In actuality, the fear element is

The idea that the war on Gaza is essentially waged and sustained by and for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, for long, dominated political analyses on the subject. The notion is often kept alive by public opinion inside Israel.  Most polls produced si

 Great orators in history would not have been recognised as such if their words carried no value. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint Congressional session on July 24 have actual worth.

 Targeting a school during a war could be justified or, at least, argued to have been a mistake.

Much has been written about the political earthquakes in Britain and France, the first resulting in the crushing defeat of the Conservative Party and the latter in the overpowering of the far right, by a largely leftist coalition.But these were not the only important outcomes of