Category: 7. Opinion

Dear Mr. President:

Welcome to the Middle East!

From what I understand, one can “do business,” make a deal, with the Mafia. They were, and perhaps still are, all about business. If you take a hit out on one of their “made men,” everyone knows that…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…

In the first days of the war in Gaza, the yellow ribbon was adopted as the symbol of the struggle to bring the hostages home. Back then it hadn’t yet evolved into fancy bumper stickers or pins in every possible plastic and metal design. It was…

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save…

With signs and wonders, with both clumsy yet spectacular tidings, it seemed that for two weeks Israel had been preparing itself for something one cannot truly prepare for. From the moment the doors of the White House were opened and a voice…

I write this tragic story describing my bitter fate to be recorded in history. It may well be the last thing I ever write. ICE has detained me for 1,450 days, each second of it a torment of fear, haunted by Judge Salavati’s death sentence and…

The ink has barely dried on the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire agreement, yet its core architecture contains a catastrophic flaw: the structural inclusion of the Republic of Turkey as a co-guarantor.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presence at…

Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish…