Ireland-Israel tensions spill into sports, and the ball is in Dublin's court now - opinion
An upcoming soccer match between Israel and Ireland is sidelining sports, engaging in foul play instead in the form of biased, anti-Israel rhetoric.
An upcoming soccer match between Israel and Ireland is sidelining sports, engaging in foul play instead in the form of biased, anti-Israel rhetoric.
Nevertheless, I would like to react to an aspect of Netanyahu's speech that I fully support, another one that I totally disagree with, and a third that left me “bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.”
Statistics show the opposite, with an Arab population boom prevalent in the West Bank.
In the age of celebrity politics, judge leaders by actual results. Politics has become a personality contest. That is exactly why voters need to look past the sound bites, and at the record
Years of institutional caution contributed to the hesitation and confusion that allowed terrorists to pour across the Gaza border on October 7. The failures that day were many.
Demanding full equality and opposing military occupation should not place anyone outside legitimate political life. Arab citizens have the same right as Jewish citizens to elect representatives.
I support the decision to disqualify Ra’am from the upcoming election. I also believe that disqualifying a political party and denying citizens the ability to vote for it is bad for democracy.
"I am no longer the person I was prior to that day. For me, October 7th has never receded into the past tense. It penetrated my core, my psyche, my very phenomenology."
There were no comparable gestures from the Irish soccer team for the Israelis massacred on October 7.
The soldiers and reservists bear the greatest burden. But their parents, spouses, and children carry a heavy weight of their own.
It is an interesting coincidence that the screening of 'NAZA' in Venice took place in the same year as the 40th anniversary of Mordechai Vanunu's revelation that Israel had a nuclear plant.