| |  | | | | | | | Noorit Felsenthal Berger, the mother of a combat soldier fighting in Gaza, is part of a movement of parents of IDF soldiers who once supported the war, but now oppose what they argue has turned into a pointless war led by an extremist government unwilling to end it.
Tehila Wenger argues that even Israel's allies don't think its government can handle the Gaza war.
Robert Zaretsky asks whether Hannah Arendt, the Jewish philosopher who fled the Nazis, famously covered the Eichmann trial and firmly believed in an international criminal court as a protection against genocide, would have supported the potential ICC arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders.
Sharone Lifschitz, the daughter of Oded, an 83-year-old hostage held in Gaza, writes that as families like her own hang suspended between hope and despair for the fate of their loved ones, the far left should stop their futile self-congratulatory hatred of Israel and instead support Israelis and Palestinians working for peace.
Tamir Sorek writes the war in Gaza has shown the limited impact of international pressure on Israel's government, but that among the soccer camp, where Netanyahu supporters are over-represented, the power of cultural sanctions in the form of a suspension by FIFA could have unexpected and unprecedented reverberations.
Michael Sfard argues that Israeli reporters and editors should explain how their professional ethics fit with the shameful decision they are making to keep from Israelis what the country is inflicting on the people of Gaza.
Amira Hass writes that in some parts of the West Bank, settlers in army uniforms eschew violence while expelling the Palestinian owners of agricultural land, more quietly than their outwardly more extremist counterparts, but just as effectively. | | |
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