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English IL 2026-06-09 Tier 2 Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism MK; Constitution Committee chair; architect of the 2023 judicial overhaul) — his Tablet op-ed "Why I Refuse to Stop Fighting for Judicial Reform": the majoritarian case — "A law endorsed by 90 elected representatives canceled by a court citing a document approved by 32… is not democracy."
Laws passed by overwhelming Knesset majorities—80 members, 90 members, representing the clear will of the Israeli public—were struck down by unelected judges based on their own broad interpretation of basic laws that were themselves passed by as few as 32 Knesset members. A law endorsed by 90 elected representatives…
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Press release Hebrew IL 2026-04-26 Tier 2 Yitzhak Goldknopf (chairman, United Torah Judaism) — public statement reacting to the High Court of Justice ruling conditioning Haredi state benefits on military-service status, 26 Apr 2026 (carried by Kipa).
החלטה שדגל שחור מתנוסס מעליה. זו חציית קו אדום חמורה ופגיעה ישירה בלב הזהות היהודית של מדינת ישראל
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Press release Hebrew IL 2026-04-26 Tier 2 Aryeh Deri (chairman, Shas) — public statement reacting to the High Court of Justice ruling conditioning Haredi state benefits on military-service status, 26 Apr 2026 (carried by Kipa).
החלטת בג"ץ האחרונה, מהווה פגיעה אנושה וחמורה ביותר ביסודות הקיום של עם ישראל בארץ ישראל
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Press release Hebrew IL 2026-04-26 Tier 2 Moshe Gafni (chairman, Degel HaTorah / United Torah Judaism) — public statement reacting to the High Court of Justice ruling (per Justice Sohlberg) that conditioned a series of Haredi state benefits on regularizing military-service status, 26 Apr 2026 (carried by Kipa).
מדינת ישראל הולכת ומאבדת את זהותה כמדינה יהודית ודמוקרטית. בג"ץ פועל בעקביות ובשיטתיות כדי לפגוע בלומדי התורה ולצמצם את מקומם במדינה
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Press release English IL 2026-03-11 Tier 2 Yuli Edelstein (Likud MK; ex-chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee; ex-Soviet "Prisoner of Zion") — statement (Times of Israel, 11 Mar 2026) after the Haredi draft-exemption bill was shelved: vowing to "widen the IDF's recruitment base until we pass a real, historic enlistment law… and lighten the burden on people who show up to serve." The draft-equality / equal-burden pole on the security-right.
Together, we'll keep striving to widen the IDF's recruitment base until we pass a real, historic enlistment law that will truly answer to the needs of the military, and lighten the burden on people who show up to serve time after time.
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Speech English IL 2025-05-30 Tier 2 Israel Katz (Israel's Defense Minister; senior Likud) — statement at the re-established Sa-Nur settlement, 30 May 2025 (Times of Israel), rebuking Macron's Palestinian-state recognition: "They will recognize a Palestinian state on paper — and we will build the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground… thrown in the trash can of history," announcing 21 new West Bank settlements. The mainstream secular-nationalist Likud right.
They will recognize a Palestinian state on paper — and we will build the Jewish-Israeli state on the ground. The paper will be thrown in the trash can of history and the State of Israel will flourish and prosper. I promised then that we would return and today we have returned here, with the decision to re-establish…
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Speech English IL 2025-03-06 Tier 2 Nir Barkat (Israel's Economy Minister; ex-Jerusalem mayor; tech entrepreneur; Likud) — European Parliament address on import reforms (per JNS, Mar 2025): free-market liberalization to cut the cost of living ("What is good for Europe is good for Israel") and an "economic peace" vision ("Palestinians should decide: Do they want the West Bank to become Dubai, or another Gaza?"). The economic-liberal / free-market Likud pole.
What is good for Europe is good for Israel. Palestinians should decide: Do they want the West Bank to become Dubai, or another Gaza?
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Interview English IL 2024-11-28 Tier 2 Ofer Cassif (Jewish anti-Zionist MK for Hadash; only Jewish member of Israel's Arab-majority bloc) — Tribune interview, Nov 2024: "I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs," indicting Israel for "genocide, ethnic cleansing… occupation" and "fascism growing stronger." The radical anti-Zionist Jewish-left pole.
I decided that my way should be the socialist, humanist one rather than the Zionist one, that it wasn't enough not to be a Zionist, but that I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs. This is the situation in Israel — alongside genocide,…
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Speech English IL 2024-06-09 Tier 2 Benny Gantz (ex-IDF chief; National Unity leader; centrist challenger) — resigning from Israel's wartime emergency government, 9 Jun 2024 (Times of Israel): "Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory… we are leaving the emergency government today," and demanding elections: "I call on Netanyahu: Set an agreed election date." [Second doc — distinct domestic-governance / anti-Netanyahu axis.]
Unfortunately, Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory… we are leaving the emergency government today with a heavy heart but wholeheartedly. I call on Netanyahu: Set an agreed election date. Don't let our people be torn apart.
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Interview English IL 2024-01-18 Tier 2 Gadi Eisenkot (former IDF chief of staff; war-cabinet observer; National Unity MK) — Israeli-TV interview, Jan 2024 (per CNN): prioritizing the hostages over "total victory" — "for me, the mission is to save civilians (hostages) before eliminating the enemy" — and candidly admitting "a strategic achievement was not reached… we did not demolish the Hamas organization."
There's no dilemma: for me, the mission is to save civilians (hostages) before eliminating the enemy. A strategic achievement was not reached … We did not demolish the Hamas organization.
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Press release English IL 2023-06-23 Tier 2 Orit Strock (Religious Zionism MK; Israel's Minister of Settlements & National Missions) — public statement (~June 2023, per FMEP's translation) celebrating settlement expansion after the Eli-junction terror attack: building "1,000 more Jewish families… was the Zionist price tag for murdering Jews… there we will deepen our roots." The messianic religious-Zionist settler / Greater-Israel pole.
1,000 more Jewish families in the place where Jewish lives were cut short. Every terrorist must know that this was the Zionist price tag for murdering Jews. In the place from where they try to uproot us – there we will deepen our roots. Not instead of eliminating the terrorists, not instead of the checkpoints, and not…
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Interview English IL 2023-06-17 Tier 2 Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — interview via The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 2023: warning that without a two-state solution Israel risks apartheid comparison — "We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime… of South Africa" — and that "this government doesn't want to make peace."
We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime that led the civilized world to boycott South Africa. This government doesn't want to make peace. It won't make any effort to make peace.
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Interview English IL 2023-06-08 Tier 2 Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; feminist, Zionist-left) — interview with The Forward during a 2023 US visit (8 Jun 2023): calls reviving liberal Zionism "the future of Israel," likens Netanyahu's politics to Trumpism, and vows to defend Israeli democracy against the judicial overhaul.
The future of Israel depends on its going back to the Zionist vision,” she said during a recent visit to the U.S. “And our side of the political map must rebuild its political power, build the infrastructure that it doesn’t have today to reach people’s hearts and minds. I think post 2016, Americans should realize…
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Press release English IL 2023-04-28 Tier 2 Avi Maoz (leader of the religious Noam party; ex-deputy minister for "Jewish national identity") — letter to party supporters (per Times of Israel, 28 Apr 2023) decrying the public prominence of a same-sex couple: opposing "a new public stance celebrating a new family model and harming our basic values as the nation of God and as a Jewish state." The anti-LGBT / religious social-conservative pole.
One cannot agree, including through silence or lack of protest, to audacious indoctrination that creates a new public stance celebrating a new family model and harming our basic values as the nation of God and as a Jewish state.
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Article English IL 2023-02-23 Tier 2 Religious Zionism's behavioral record in power: the Defense-Ministry memorandum transferring authority over most West Bank civil affairs (COGAT / Civil Administration — land, planning, 'state land' declarations, settlement 'legalization', the new 'Settlement Administration') to party leader Bezalel Smotrich as 'additional minister' — implementing, per Adalah, the Religious Zionist Party's "Israeli sovereignty" / de-facto-annexation agenda. Powers list documented verbatim by Adalah; transfer formalized Feb 2023 (coalition agreement Dec 2022); corroborated by The Washington Institute.
According to the memorandum, the Defense Minister will retain responsibility for military activities in the West Bank, while Smotrich will have authority over most civil matters. This includes directing policies for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and civil administration in key…
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Article English IL 2023-01-04 Tier 2 Likud behavioral democracy record — the 2023 judicial overhaul: the Likud-led government's plan (architected by Likud Justice Minister Yariv Levin) to curb Supreme Court judicial review; PM Netanyahu (Likud) said it would "strengthen democracy," while the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned it would "drastically undermine" the judiciary's check on executive and legislative power. Reported by JURIST (Feb 2023).
Specifically, Türk said that the proposals would limit the Israeli Supreme Court’s ability to perform judicial review of legislation and would require either a super majority or unanimity of judges for the court to overturn legislation. Netanyahu also dismissed Türk’s concerns and said the reforms would “strengthen…
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Speech English IL 2022-12-29 Tier 2 Amir Ohana (Likud; Knesset Speaker; Israel's first openly gay Speaker; ex-Justice & Public-Security Minister) — inaugural address as Speaker (per Times of Israel, 29 Dec 2022): as a gay man leading a right-religious coalition with anti-LGBT partners, vowing "This Knesset, under the leadership of this speaker, won't hurt them or any other family, period." The gay-right / nationalist-LGBT paradox pole.
This Knesset, under the leadership of this speaker, won't hurt them or any other family, period.
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Article English IL 2022-12-27 Tier 2 Shas behavioral democracy / rule-of-law record — the "Deri Law" (27 Dec 2022): at Shas's behest, the new coalition amended Basic Law: The Government to exclude suspended sentences from the bar on convicts serving as ministers, specifically so convicted Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister — criticized as "personal legislation." Documented by JURIST (Univ. of Pittsburgh Law).
This morning, 27th December, Israel’s new coalition passed a bill that will allow parliament member Aryeh Deri, leader of the “Shas” faction in the Knesset, to be nominated as minister despite his recent criminal convictions of tax offenses. Now the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu has changed the relevant clause…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 2022-12-21 Tier 2 Likud–United Torah Judaism coalition agreement, 37th government (signed 21 Dec 2022) — selected clauses: religion-state status quo (§22, §24), yeshiva conscription exemption & Basic Law: Torah Study (§18), and the judicial-overhaul / override-clause commitment (§49). Full agreement text first published by JDN; substance corroborated by mainstream reporting (Times of Israel, Maariv).
18. לאור החשיבות שהעם היהודי העניק ומעניק ללימוד תורה לאורך הדורות, תושלם חקיקת חוק יסוד: לימוד תורה הקובעת שלימוד התורה הוא ערך יסוד במורשת העם היהודי, וזאת עד להעברת תקציב לשנת 2023. בד בבד, עד העברת התקציב לשנת 2023, יושלם תיקון לחוק שירות הביטחון להסדרת מעמדם של תלמידי הישיבות בהסכמת כל סיעות הקואליציה. סיעת יהדות…
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Speech English IL 2022-09-22 Tier 2 Yair Lapid address to the UN General Assembly (77th session), 22 Sep 2022
Israel's economic and military strength allows us to protect ourselves but it also allows us something else: To strive for peace with the entire Arab world. And with our closest neighbors – the Palestinians. An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel's…
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Speech English IL 2022-09-20 Tier 2 Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; Zionist-left) — 2022 campaign-launch remarks, 20 Sep 2022: "Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it" — the Zionist-left's two-state / end-the-conflict stance. [Second doc — distinct TWO-STATE / peace foreign-policy axis, vs her existing liberal-Zionism / pro-democracy doc.]
The next government must renew political discourse and stop hiding behind empty words like 'managing the conflict' or 'reducing the conflict.' Without a two-state solution, we will stay with one state for two nations and that's the end of the State of Israel as we know it and love it, and we won't let it happen.
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Interview English IL 2022-09-05 Tier 2 Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; ex-Culture & Sport Minister) — Davar interview, Sep 2022: positioning herself as the voice of the periphery against the center/elite — "they see me as their mouthpiece, and their representative" — and waging culture war on the Tel Aviv establishment: "I made it clear that culture was not born in Tel Aviv." The Likud populist-nationalist / Mizrahi-periphery / anti-elite pole.
You have to understand that in Israeli society, there are still very large gaps between the periphery and the center; There are people who don't have the opportunity and the tools to fight in an equal way, and they see me as their mouthpiece, and their representative. I made it clear that culture was not born in Tel…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2021-04-01 Tier 2 Mansour Abbas prime-time address: 'coexistence based on mutual respect', 1 Apr 2021 (English translation of Hebrew original)
"I carry a prayer of hope, and the search for coexistence based on mutual respect and genuine equality. What we have in common is greater than what divides us." "I, Mansour Abbas, a man of the Islamic Movement, am a proud Arab and Muslim, a citizen of the state of Israel, who heads the leading, biggest political…
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Party platform English IL 2021-03-23 Tier 2 7 Principles for New Hope (Tikva Hadasha) — party platform (official English edition)
7 Principles for New Hope 1. Israel is Jewish and Democratic. New Hope will preserve Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and a democratic state. 2. Fortifying National Strengths. New Hope will preserve Israel's national security and develop Israel's components of power – military, economic, technological,…
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Speech English IL 2019-05-27 Tier 2 Avigdor Lieberman (leader of Yisrael Beiteinu; secular-nationalist) — coalition-crisis statements, 27 May 2019: "We are in favor of a Jewish state, we are against a halachic state" — his anti-ultra-Orthodox-coercion / Haredi-draft-equality stand that forced Israel's first-ever repeat election. [Second doc — distinct SECULARISM / religion-state axis, vs his 2010 UN foreign-policy address.]
I want to emphasize yet again: We are in favor of a Jewish state, we are against a halachic [Jewish law] state. I agree it's not just the draft law. The draft law became a symbol… but look at what is happening here.
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Party platform English IL 2019-04-09 Tier 2 Otzma Yehudit party platform — 'Aliya, Construction, Emigration and Peace' (2019; English edition)
We of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) recognize the demographic problem and intend to tackle head on, with determination and power, the disaster that lies ahead. To beat the enemy, not to surrender to them. To fight for a Jewish State and to win. Let us be clear: To wage war on the enemy is not racism, there is no…
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Press release English IL 2018-10-21 Tier 2 Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; then Culture & Sport Minister) — official statement, 21 Oct 2018, on her "Culture Loyalty" bill: "preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel" — conditioning state arts funding on loyalty to the state. [Second doc — distinct CULTURE-WAR / free-expression / loyalty-in-culture axis, vs her existing Mizrahi periphery-populism doc.]
Freedom of expression is a guiding light for us and a central value in the life of the State of Israel as a democratic state, but preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel.
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Speech English IL 2018-07-19 Tier 2 Ahmad Tibi (Arab-Israeli MK; leader of Ta'al; ex-deputy Knesset speaker) — statement after the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law vote (per Vice): "I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy." The leading parliamentary voice of Israel's Palestinian-Arab citizens, demanding "a state of all its citizens."
I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy.
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Interview English IL 2017-08-09 Tier 2 Ayman Odeh interview, Fathom: 'change is impossible without us', 2017
[Q: What is your vision for the future of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel?] Ayman Odeh: That there should be peace based on two states along the 1967 borders with very good relations between them, and that following the establishment of a Palestinian state there should be peace between Israel and all the Arab…
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Speech English IL 2016-05-04 Tier 2 Yair Golan (then IDF Deputy Chief of Staff; later a Labor/Democrats leader) — 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Day address (per Times of Israel): warning that trends in Israel echo pre-Holocaust Europe — "finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016" — and of the ease of becoming "callous, morally corrupt and hypocritical." [Second doc — distinct moral-character / democratic-warning axis.]
If there is something that frightens me in the memory of the Holocaust, it is identifying horrifying processes that occurred in Europe…70, 80 and 90 years ago and finding evidence of their existence here in our midst, today, in 2016. There is nothing easier than hating the other. There is nothing easier than raising…
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Speech English IL 2010-09-28 Tier 2 Avigdor Lieberman UN General Assembly address (65th session), 28 Sep 2010
We are ready for a fair solution and we are ready to cooperate with the international community. However, we are not ready to compromise our national security or the vital interests of the State of Israel. At the outset, I want to emphasize that contrary to what is often shown in the international media, the…
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Speech English IL 2009-06-14 Tier 2 Netanyahu Bar-Ilan University address, 14 June 2009 (English translation of Hebrew original)
I have already stressed the first principle - recognition. Palestinians must clearly and unambiguously recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people. The second principle is: demilitarization. The territory under Palestinian control must be demilitarized with ironclad security provisions for Israel. Without these…
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Interview English IL 2007-02-28 Tier 2 Balad doctrine — MK Jamal Zahalka interview, 'A State of all its Citizens', Feb 2007
Balad is [a] national democratic party defined by two political positions. One is the demand that Israel be a state of all its citizens, as opposed to Israel's self-definition as a Jewish state, and two is cultural autonomy for Palestinians inside Israel. Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a state that…
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Speech Hebrew IL 2005-08-15 Tier 2 Ariel Sharon address to the nation on implementing the Gaza Disengagement, 15 Aug 2005 (English translation of Hebrew original)
Citizens of Israel, The day has arrived. We are beginning the most difficult and painful step of all — evacuating our communities from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria. This step is very difficult for me personally. It was with a heavy heart that the Government of Israel made the decision regarding Disengagement,…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 1999-01-01 Tier 2 Likud Party electoral platform, 1999 (English translation of Hebrew original)
The Jordan river will be the permanent eastern border of the State of Israel. The Kingdom of Jordan is a desirable partner in the permanent status arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians in matters that will be agreed upon. The Jordan Valley and the territories that dominate it shall be under Israeli…
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Speech Hebrew IL 1995-10-05 Tier 2 Yitzhak Rabin's address to the Knesset on the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement (Oslo II), 5 Oct 1995 (English translation of Hebrew original)
We are striving for a permanent solution to the unending bloody conflict between us and the Palestinians and the Arab states. In the framework of the permanent solution, we aspire to reach, first and foremost, the State of Israel as a Jewish state, at least 80% of whose citizens will be, and are, Jews. At the same…
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Party platform Hebrew IL 1977-05-01 Tier 2 Likud Party original platform, 1977 (English translation of Hebrew original)
The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan…
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Hebrew IL 1948-05-14 Tier 2 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948 (English translation of Hebrew original)
ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE…
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Interview English IL Tier 2 May Golan (Likud MK & minister; anti-asylum-seeker activist) — on Sean Hannity's Fox News show (~2016, per JTA), framing opposition to African asylum-seekers as legitimate border protection via a Trump parallel: "this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." The anti-immigration / ethno-nationalist-populist pole.
I can see here what's going on with Donald Trump. They're calling him racist just for wanting to protect the borders of his country. Well, this is the same thing in Israel. I think I, and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders.
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English IL Tier 2 Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — Haaretz opinion piece (per Ahram Online, 23 Jun 2026), among the harshest condemnations of the Gaza war by any senior Israeli figure: "It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes," calling the war the work of "the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu." [Second doc — distinct war-conduct axis.]
It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes. Never since its establishment has the State of Israel waged such a war… The criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel's history in this area, too.
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Party platform English IL Tier 2 Hadash — Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (DFPE) — party peace platform (from its program; English version via Adalah): a Jewish-Arab socialist Left; full Israeli withdrawal to the June 1967 lines, evacuation of all settlements, a sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel (two states for two peoples), the Golan returned to Syria. [Party platform — fills the previously 0-doc Hadash entry.]
The DFPE (HADASH in Hebrew) is a Jewish-Arab movement with rich and consistent experience in social and political struggles. […] 1. Evacuation of all the settlements and Israeli withdrawal from all the Palestinian territories conquered in the June 1967 war […] 2. Recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to…