Carolina Landsmann

Israel is speeding downhill, and there are no internal brakes strong enough to stop it. In the entire government, only two people are trying to halt the descent.

In an interview this week with a Ynet podcast, Culture Minister Miki Zohar said that in a democratic country, it is "the spirit of the people" that determines how things will be.

The dramatic appeals to senior defense officials to do something, to "go into his office, pound on the desk and make it clear to him that this can't

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The war stopped the civil war. In the months before Hamas' attack, energy for war was released in both Israeli political camps.

The longer the war continues, even after it turned out on Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed in Gaza, the question of "what

"That's how it is in war," say those looking for excuses when explaining the mass killings in Gaza, the wholesale attacks on women, children and the elderly, and the sheer absolute devastation.

Thanks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to postpone testifying in his trial, we were once again privileged to experience the trap in which he has imprisoned us.

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We learned from Martin Luther King, who learned from Dante, that the hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral during a moral crisis.