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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

David Makovsky

David Makovsky

From left to right: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich, in 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 2, 2022, 9:57 pm
A narrow government with Ben Gvir and Smotrich threatens US-Israel ties
Shared values are a cornerstone of the relationship – appointing senior ministers that incite against Arabs would be a gift to anti-Israel progressives
By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
(L-R) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)
October 28, 2020, 7:40 pm
Yitzhak Rabin was always a realist. How would he have handled the 2020 Mideast?
For starters, he’d have used the new ties with the Gulf states to help restore the sense of possibility for peace with the Palestinians, and broken the stalemate with them
By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering a campaign address next to a map of proposed areas of the West Bank for annexation on September 10, 2019. (screen capture: Facebook)
May 5, 2020, 11:02 pm
On annexation, Netanyahu must choose a lasting legacy
With his last election likely behind him, the prime minister no longer needs to lean on the transactional politics of partisan campaign promises
By David Makovsky and Dennis Ross
Ariel Sharon. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 5, 2019, 3:44 pm
What Israel still needs to learn from Ariel Sharon
He was a hawk who put the needs of the state above his own politics, even when that led him to withdraw from Gaza
By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
David Makovsky
February 14, 2018, 7:59 am
David Makovsky
The objective: Block Iranian entrenchment in Syria
Israel views Russia as its best hope for constraining Iran’s activities next door
Palestinian children hold bread patties during a protest against aid cuts, outside the United Nations' offices in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)
February 4, 2018, 4:10 am
Hamas failures in Gaza are changing Israel’s stance
Israeli right-wingers are among the many others seeking to help remedy the humanitarian crisis in the Strip
By David Makovsky and Lia Weiner
David Makovsky
February 13, 2017, 4:59 pm
David Makovsky
What will Netanyahu discuss with Trump?
The Israeli PM’s 4 main agenda items include asking the US to tighten — not scrap — the Iran nuclear deal
David Makovsky
September 28, 2016, 10:33 pm
David Makovsky
Israel’s quintessential Zionist
Shimon Peres was eternally driven by the principle that Jews must take charge of their own future
A general view of the main wooden footbridge leading up from the Western Wall to the Temple Mount. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 23, 2015, 1:04 am
Yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater
Sadly, the charge that Israel is out to destroy Al-Aqsa mosque is not new. It is always incendiary
By David Makovsky
May 22, 2015, 12:41 pm
BDS’s useless politics of confrontation
Protests should be aimed at ending a conflict that has persisted for decades—not fueling the fire
By David Makovsky and Raquel Saxe
David Makovsky
November 12, 2014, 8:55 pm
David Makovsky
A rocky road for US-Israel ties
Friction is due to increase in the near future and Washington may need to give Israel a letter of assurances on Iran
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