“This world is losing its humanity. What I do know is that civilisation is nothing but a lie. We are now at the bottom rung of civilisation’s inhumanity. The world has failed the test of humanity and has shown its real face. The deception behind civilisation’s pretence has been exposed. This world is no worthy of us to live in. Therefore, we will die satisfied. Completely satisfied.” — By Ilana Hammerman *

Although Israeli restaurants in New York are doing better business than ever, the political chasm is already polarising chefs and others in hospitality who once symbolised coexistence and culinary cooperation, including Reem Kassis and Michael Solomonov. — By Haim Handwerker * Bustan, New York’s Upper West Side restaurant celebrating Israeli-Tel Aviv cuisine, was packed yesterday. It was a Monday evening, known by restaurants to be the worst night for business. But in Bustan’s case, it wasn’t only packed, but many of diners were even turned away because…

It’s impossible to discuss Gaza as if nothing happened before 7 October. It’s impossible to deny Israel’s colonial policies. But none of this contradicts a condemnation of the massacre and a call to halt the violence and the working out of a political solution. By Tom Mehager * Under the…

In Israeli and global consciousness, Gaza is seen as another universe, a universe for which the normal human rules do not apply. A place outside of human reach, where you can starve the inhabitants, lock them up, bomb them once in a while. — By Orly Noy • [Translated by Sol Salbe] Throughout its history Israel has committed many crimes against the Palestinians, but one of the most despicable is the transformation of the Gaza Strip into a parallel universe in the public mind.

Come on, is that what you think is so urgent now? The big question, after all, is not how we (Israelis) will continue to live with Judith Butler or listen to Jarvis Cocker, but how we will live here, with the Palestinians, in this land. — By Noam Sheizaf • [Translated by Sol Salbe] Judging by the columns and opinion pieces in Haaretz this week, the war in Gaza is but a footnote to a much larger and tragic event, which is the Global Left betrayal of Israel.

The Palestinians and their supporters consider Israel’s policy of attacking Gaza a genocide, and what is taking place in the West Bank as ethnic cleansing. One day of atrocities, terrible as they may be, unleashed existing plans to complete what Israel failed to accomplish in the Nakba in 1948. — By Amira Hass • [Translated by Sol Salbe] Among Palestinians and their supporters in the West, there is a whole spectrum of reactions to the 7 October Hamas attack on Hamas: Justification for the attack with all its horrors; Justification, joy and schadenfreude; justification and lack of interest in…

We are a terrible murderous country just like other countries that you learn about in history lessons, only in smaller numbers. But it’s a growing number. I truly wonder what I’m doing in a country where children are killed, where the killing are announced out in the open, and the world takes it in its stride as usual and everyone moves on with it. — By Ram Cohen • [Translated by Sol Salbe] ​ It wasn’t only my heart that trembled in shock when I heard my Sister-in-Arms explaining, in beautiful English [on 60 Minutes] how she was willing to kill children for Gantz but not for Bibi.

Thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, about two thirds describe conditions today as worse than they were before that agreement; two thirds think it has damaged Palestinian national interests, three quarters think Israel does not implement it; and a majority supports abandoning it despite the fact that about half believes that abandoning it would lead to the collapse of the PA and the return of the Israeli Civil Administration

Lawyer Ilan Bombach argued that the ‘Declaration of Independence’ cannot serve as a constitutional basis — but what is the alternative? — By Noa Epstein • [Translated by Sol Salbe] The Declaration of Independence of the current Israeli government Nir Hasson and Ran Shimoni reported this morning that the project to establish a museum that will display the Declaration of Independence has been held up after the Prime Minister’s Office and the…