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In the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel, the Instagram account of Nattiv — the first Israeli director to ever win an Oscar and the director of 2023's 'Golda,' a film about the 1973 Yom Kippur War — has become a principal source of information about the missing and the dead.“God, it’s **** crazy,” Guy Nattiv said with exasperation when we connected by phone this week, in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel that has resulted in the deaths and hostage-taking of hundreds of Israelis. “This is a holocaust.” Nattiv, the first Israeli filmmaker to ever win...

Since the re-establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948, just three short years after the Holocaust, and the recapturing of Jerusalem by the Jews in the Six Day Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the nation of Israel worked hard to reclaim land that was lost to them since ancient (biblical) times. In that time, Egypt took over the Gaza strip, and Syria took over the Golan Heights region. After the 1967 War, the United States tried to spearhead a U.N. Resolution (242) which was designed to broker a peace treaty between the surrounding Arab nations with the condition that Israel...

'The next Golda Meir' is already here Aluf Benn It is doubtful that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded this week to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. But were they to confer Nobel prizes for political public relations, Israel's premier would win one, hands down. Only Sharon is capable of toughening up his positions, while simultaneously appearing in public as a moderate who is virtually a leftist. His "Herzliya speech" last week, in which he presented his diplomatic plan, was favorably received by many who referred to the Likud chairman's "thrust to the...

Saddam and Arafat, Sharon and Golda By Akiva Eldar The political and military establishment in Israel, like its counterpart in the U.S., is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that its problems begin with one bad person whose removal will solve those problems. After September 11, the prime minster quickly drew a straight line between Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat. That line proved to be an effective defense against American pressure to get out of the territories and move on to the political track. The vacuum left by bin Laden has now been filled by Saddam Hussein. There...