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The march of parochialism started right away. The tears of excitement invoked by U.S. president-elect Barack Obama’s wonderful speech had not yet…
Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996.
His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.
A young woman — kerchief on her head, baby in her arms — stood behind the barred windows of her apartment yesterday…
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So what is the "great plan"? As things look now, this is the way Israel is planning its future: Every time some…
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The amount of support being shown for Israel these days is almost embarrassing. The parade of highly-placed foreign guests and the warm…
It is still unclear whether the terrorist who entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva on Thursday night and killed eight of its students…
One after another, the final lights are being turned off, and a moral gloom is falling upon us as we stand at…