After this dark campaign, there are several lessons that America could learn from Israel about how to run an election. Really.
Gershom Gorenberg
Gershom Gorenberg is a senior correspondent for the Prospect. His most recent book is War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis From the Middle East. Follow him on Twitter @GershomG.
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Polls From a Distant Land: Israelis and Palestinians Despair, But Shouldn’t
If each side understood what the other wants, they’d have more hope for peace. If a responsible U.S. president pays attention, she should jack up the pressure.
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The Strange Sympathy of the Far Left for Putin
Jill Stein and Jeremy Corbyn have been among the apologists for Russia’s crimes in Syria—alongside Donald Trump.
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The Reinventor
Which Shimon Peres will be remembered depends on what his successors do.
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So Let the Settlers Stay. They Won’t.
Netanyahu’s strange new PR video is a bluff that deserves to be called out.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Beach Movie of the Absurd
The Burkini fuss isn’t just an embarrassment for France. Diversity is under attack across the West.
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Things That Aren’t Genocide: The Iran Deal and the Occupation
The Israeli defense minister’s Holocaust comparison, like that of the Black Lives Matter platform, is a serious political mistake.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Why Netanyahu Suddenly Wants a Deal on U.S. Aid
The prime minister, in an attack of good sense, realizes that a GOP victory may not be good news for Israel.
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The Frenemies Gambit
Benjamin Netanyahu uses European support for human rights to attack domestic dissent in Israel.
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Marriage of Inconvenience
Economics have pushed Israel and Turkey to an overdue reconciliation. But Gaza, supposed cause of the rift, gains too little
