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The most important Haaretz op-eds of the week, as chosen by Opinion Editor Esther Solomon.
 
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  Donald Trump's Big Lie on Syria Will Come Back to Haunt America
ISIS, Erdogan, Iran, Putin and Assad. What's wrong with the list of big winners from Trump's immoral, incompetent retreat from Syria? How much worse can the president's Mideast 'policymaking' get?
David Rothkopf  
 
Young U.S. Jews Would Engage More With Israel if Birthright Stopped Lying About the Occupation
Showing the truth won’t alienate Birthright trip participants from Israel. But offering a sanitized, whitewashed Israel patronizes young Jews’ curiosity and intelligence – and sets them up for dissonance and disengagement
Jacob Levkowicz
 
Gideon Levy’s Views on Dead Settlers Are Incomprehensible, Inexcusable and Unforgivable
It is clearly possible to vehement oppose the political settlement movement, but not murdered settlers. If Levy no longer can, he’s lost his humanity
James Adler
 
Israel’s Crusade Against BDS Is Costing Its Own Democracy
The boycott movement hasn’t managed to hurt Israel from the outside. But it's beginning to hurt Israel from the inside
Anders Persson
 
How Putin and the Far Right Played the Paris Yellow Vests Protests
Russia didn’t trigger the Gilets Jaunes. But Putin and the far right want to see Paris burn and Europe weakened, so they jumped at the chance to contaminate and manipulate them
Claire Berlinski
 
Trump’s Victory Dance on the Weekly Standard’s Grave Is Obnoxious, Foolish - and Dangerous
U.S. president claims a hollow victory over one of his most potent critics - principled American conservatism
Alex Griffing
 
The Secret Jewish Plot Against Turkey
Erdogan, who rose out of a party whose leader compared Jews to bacteria, likes to name-drop 'The Mastermind': a Jewish conspiracy preventing Turkey taking its rightful place as a world superpower. No surprise, then, that he's now targeting Soros
Simon Waldman
 
Hamas Owes Its 'Palestine From the River to the Sea' Slogan to Zionism
Decades before the Hamas rallying cry of a 'free Palestine from the river to the sea' came the 'Greater Israel' demanded by the first Zionists – and today's Israeli political right
Seraj Assi
 
How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist
After redefining 'Jew' and 'anti-Semitism' to fit his political objectives, Israel's PM is now rewriting the Holocaust, whitewashing Polish and Hungarian involvement in the murder of Jews to cement his political alliances
Anshel Pfeffer
 
 
 
 
 
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