Jo-Ann Mort

@ChangeCommNYC

Raphael Glucksmann spoke with The New Republic about how he helped keep the far-right out of power—and his leftist vision for the country’s future.

Israel keeps encroaching on Palestinian land in defiance of international law.

Jews see one reality, Arabs another, and each side is completely dehumanizing the other. This has to end. But no one knows when.

Many Palestinians and Israelis consider him the only person who can lead the way to a two-state solution. Maybe that’s why Netanyahu won’t release him.

When this war ends, Israel will need a new government and renewed commitment to peace. When that time comes, pay attention to the Labor Party’s Gilad Kariv.

The defeat of Hamas must be followed with a revised plan, probably including several key Arab countries, to allow the creation of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Bibi is on his way to killing Israeli democracy. But he hasn’t won yet.

“Never in our history as a state has Israel suffered such a destruction of value in such a short time,” says the former prime minister.

The showing by Itamar Ben-Gvir’s racist, nationalist party portends a hard-right turn. And meanwhile, on the left …

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the most powerful businessperson in Russia. Then Putin imprisoned him. Now he watches from London in rage and shame at what Putin is doing.