“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
U.S. President Joe Biden's energy security advisor is visiting Israel to discuss potential economic revitalization plans for Gaza centered around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields
The post seen in this photo contains blatant lies about the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. It has absolutely no basis in Haaretz’s reporting, then or since
Israel is headed by a corrupt criminal defendant. And now, he is leading the country into a war in which nobody even knows the precise goals, much less the outcome, Zvi Bar'el writes
Netanyahu isn’t the solution, but the problem. He has legitimized Jewish supremacists and the far right. During his years in power, Israel has grown more extreme, and people who used to be loathsome pariahs are now senior ministers | Haaretz Editorial
"A woman who represents a mixed marriage cannot represent Jewish culture": Israeli Education Ministry withdraws funding of Jewish event over Arab Israeli host
Massive crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip by Israel could not only lead to an untold death toll of Palestinians in Gaza, but also to the political and moral end of Israel itself,
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The IDF says 9,000 terrorists have been killed since the Gaza war began. Defense officials and soldiers, however, tell Haaretz that these are often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF /
@yanivkub
Ofer Cassif, an Israeli lawmaker from the left-wing Jewish and Arab Hadash-Ta'al Party, caused an uproar in the Knesset after he signed a petition filed by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
52,000 pregnant women and over 30,000 babies under six months of age are currently drinking brackish or contaminated water in Gaza, according to an internal U.S. State Department document's assessment
LISTEN: Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner tells Haaretz Podcast why he's baffled by the controversy over director Jonathan Glazer's "unimpeachable and irrefutable" remarks at the 2024 Oscar Awards
Haaretz investigation reveals cases of negligence and the spreading of misinformation by the Zaka volunteer group, which began collecting bodies in the devastated communities of southern Israel immediately after the Hamas attack /
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Israelis are now living in a movie, a sealed bubble designed by Channel 12 military correspondent Nir Dvori and IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari. They have no idea what we have left behind in Gaza, and what is said about us in the world | Opinion | Uri Misgav
In 2009, Netanyahu developed a destructive, warped political doctrine that held that strengthening Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian Authority would be good for Israel / Dmitry Shumsky
Horrifyingly, but not surprisingly, Netanyahu has partners who prefer revenge to concern for captives.
At a cabinet meeting, Smotrich said, “We have to be cruel now and not consider the captives overmuch.” This is unacceptable | Haaretz Editorial
War crimes can be committed not only by people with Kalashnikovs riding Toyota trucks. They can also be committed from defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, or from the pilot’s seat in a fighter plane or helicopter, Michael Sfard writes
In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides.
In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror.
In the shadow of war, Arab-Jewish solidarity initiatives emerge
Information obtained by Haaretz indicates IDF commanders have ordered soldiers to set fire to abandoned Gaza homes without legal approval.
Several hundred have already been irreparably damaged /
@yanivkub
"What Jonathan Glazer is saying is that Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust, must not be used in the campaign as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people. Who doesn't agree with that?"
The judges in The Hague diagnosed perfectly what we here refuse to admit: Israel's problem is its mainstream, not its lunatic fringes | Opinion | Gideon Levy
Israelis experienced a horrific trauma, and now we’re bombing, killing and starving people, and mainly hardening our hearts to stone. Moral corruption is no less dangerous to our survival than Hamas,
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Instead of bolstering the status of Israel among the international community, as he promised in his first book, "A Place Among the Nations," Netanyahu has brought it to the status of a criminal and murderous state / Haaretz editor Aluf Benn
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Haaretz investigation reveals: Israeli who managed to escape Nova music festival on Oct. 7, shortly before it was overrun by Hamas terrorists, was killed by a volunteer security squad at a neighboring kibbutz after being misidentified as a terrorist
🚨🇮🇱 Haaretz investigation EXPOSES all the ISRAELI LIES from October 7th (just like I predicated).
🇮🇱 Confirmed number dead is 900, not “nearly 2,000.”
🇮🇱 50% were Israeli soldiers.
🇮🇱 Most deaths have signs of being dead during Tank shelling.
🇮🇱 No evidence Hamas burnt any…
Two co-creators of an Israeli-Palestinian documentary won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and used their acceptance speeches to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to Israel's inhumane treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank
Thanks to the funneling of millions of Qatari dollars to Gaza, with Netanyuhu’s repeated approval as part of a deliberate, malicious policy aimed at burying the two-state solution, Hamas acquired inordinate military capabilities / Dmitry Shumsky
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Reversing an earlier denial, IDF officials have admitted that a Telegram channel aimed at Israelis was operated by members of a department of the Operations Directorate
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details
We have the right to say that the force Israel is using in Gaza is not proportionate, and in fact is excessive, that killing Palestinian women and children is wrong, just as we say that the kind of brutality we saw on October 7 is wrong | Opinion
If the Israeli government doesn't come to its senses immediately and respond decisively to settlers' actions in the West Bank, it will be adding another catastrophe to its record of failures | Haaretz Editorial
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Israel's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi submitted a proposal to take action against Haaretz by ending the publication of government notices in Haaretz
Why are Israeli soldiers uploading photos of themselves inside with Palestinian detainees to their dating profiles? Beyond the "uniform effect," some experts say the violent militarism seen on dating apps is leading to disturbing trends in Israeli society
In total, in the past 12 months, 1,926 attacks by Jews against Palestinians in the West Bank were recorded. FYI, President Biden: Their guns were U.S.-made, and the goal is for these weapons to terrorize people | Opinion | Amira Hass
Israelis have dropped the notion of a two-state solution and largely embraced a multi-tiered class system where Jews are on top, prominent Israeli intellectual says in CNN interview
Senior members of 36 global news outlets, including Haaretz, issued an open letter on Friday affirming their support for Palestinian journalists in Gaza, 89 of whom have been killed in the war since October 7
Israel's security establishment and State Prosecutor's Office are concerned that the International Court of Justice will charge Israel with genocide in Gaza – this at the request of South Africa, which petitioned the court over the weekend
Anyone who sees the dimensions of killing in Gaza has to hope, even if only in their heart, that the International Court of Justice will issue a provisional measure ordering a suspension of Israel's military operations in Gaza | Opinion | Gideon Levy
A 19-year-old girl who just emerged from the hell of the Hamas assault put it perfectly: “Bibi chose to give us Iron Dome instead of a diplomatic solution.” That’s as clear an analysis as one could ever ask for | Opinion
To heal after Netanyahu, we'll have to relinquish his lies, the illusion he created for us, which allowed us to sleep in peace, to raise children, to buy real estate, to travel overseas and to forget that we are ruling over another people | Opinion
It's happening just over a one-hour drive from Tel Aviv. It's happening without being reported in Israel, without any public debate over the violent rampage Israel has allowed itself to wage in Gaza this time, more than ever before | Opinion | Gideon Levy
The idea that seven million Jews can rule millions of Palestinians with violent force, forever, without paying a steep price in the loss of democracy – or, for me, in the loss of my beloved first-born child – is an illusion, writes Elana Kaminka
Israel can crush Gaza under the banner of "hunting Hamas" and call bulldozing the West Bank "fighting terrorism," but it must understand that for every fatality, another generation of Palestinians will join the struggle against it / Jack Khoury
Netanyahu will have to face a state commission of inquiry. But what we know so far is already enough to justify ousting him and preventing him from continuing to oversee a war that is largely the consequence of his incompetence | Haaretz Editorial
Israel is not taking part in deliberations at the ICJ regarding the legal of status of the occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem because it realizes it would be difficult to dispute the claims | Haaretz Editorial
Fifty Holocaust and genocide researchers from Israel and abroad call on Yad Vashem to voice "unambiguous moral call condemning the public discourse calling for extermination and the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza"
October 7 was a heinous crime. But how many Gazans must die, how many ministers must promote ethnic cleansing, how many failures must Netanyahu deny for the U.S. to reconsider its support for the war being waged by his government? | Opinion |
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Israel's current government, says historian Moshe Zimmermann, is a "kakistocracy" – meaning rule by the worst citizens.
If there were rankings, Netanyahu would be competing for first place with "Nero, Czar Nicholas II or Donald Trump"
Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 caught the Israeli army unprepared.
But somebody seemingly knew in advance and made billions betting against Israeli shares traded locally and on Wall Street five days before the attack
After an attack on their olive groves by Israeli settlers, Palestinians from the West Bank town of Deir Istiya find leaflets tucked under windshields warning them to flee to Jordan, or be forcefully removed
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Haaretz has been reporting on settlers’ efforts to take advantage of the war in Gaza to evict Palestinians from their lands, attack them and take over additional areas throughout the West Bank
There’s no better proof of Netanyahu’s responsibility for the disaster suffered by Israel on October 7 than the letters of warning sent to him by the head of the Military Intelligence research division, Brig. Gen. Amit Saar, in March and July / Aluf Benn
Currently, Israel is the occupying power in Gaza; according to international law, it must take care of the needs of the population under its control, including women, children, the elderly and the sick. This must not be forgotten | Haaretz Editorial
The Israeli prime minister himself knowingly and calculatingly cultivated Hamas – one of Israel’s most bitter and fanatic foes, an enemy whose declared aim is to destroy the country / Dmitry Shumsky
It would be a mistake to assume that Netanyahu thought about the well-being of Gazans – who are also victims of Hamas – when he allowed transferring funds to Hamas. His goal was to hurt Mahmoud Abbas and prevent a two-states solution | Opinion
We've lost. Truth must be told. The inability to admit it encapsulates everything you need to know about Israel's individual and mass psychology | Opinion | Chaim Levinson
For 14 years, Netanyahu's policy was to keep Hamas in power. The pogrom of October 7, 2023, helps the Israeli prime minister preserve his own rule | Opinion
Haaretz has published a Hebrew-only attack on my investigation into Israeli friendly fire deaths on October 7. It calls my article the "cornerstone of the massacre denial conspiracy" and predictably accuses me of "'journalism' worthy of Der Sturmer."
Haaretz proceeds to accuse…