Opinion Editor's Choice
 
 
 
The most important Haaretz op-eds of the week, as chosen by Opinion Editor Esther Solomon.
 
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  Don't Be the One Who Says No to Trump
U.S. president Donald Trump has a fleeting moment of leverage to push Israeli and Palestinian leaders to a deal. He must make the costs of disappointing him high
Daniel B Shapiro
 
Trump's Israel Trip Was One Big Gaslighting Charade
He wanted to rehabilitate an image tarnished by accusations of anti-Semitism. But the U.S. president's 'spiritual grand tour' stop in Israel was an absurd series of empty gestures
Jacob Bacharach
 
For 40 Years, I’ve Fought for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. But I Won’t Buy a Trump-brokered Deal
No Israeli-Palestinian deal sullied by Donald Trump's fingerprints can be trusted, because the man himself can’t be trusted and neither can his word
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
 
A Repellent Personality, a Miserable President. But on MidEast Peace Efforts – Back Trump Letty Cottin Pogrebin is wrong: If there’s the slightest chance for a deal to be made, we must support it. Yes, even if Donald Trump is its advocate and champion
Eric Yoffie
 
Trump Ingratiates Himself With Saudi Extremists, and U.S. Muslims Are Abandoned
Trump and his Islamophobic advisors chumming it up with the world’s most politically regressive Muslim nation was a shameful display
Haroon Moghul
 
Iranians Smell Shortsighted Hypocrisy in Targeting by Trump and His Mideast Hosts
King Salman and Netanyahu eagerly backed Trump's tour mantra: Iran, Iran, Iran. But targeting Tehran will inflame sectarianism and weaken the war against ISIS
Ariane Tabatabai
 
Why Palestinians Have Already Given Up on Trump
Trump wants to play peacemaker, but he has zero credibility among Palestinians
Hisham Sharabati
 
After Manchester: Is Trump the Key Liability in the War Against Islamist Terror?
The 'evil losers' won't swing the UK election. But will Trump give them a different win?
Azriel Bermant
 
A Simplistic, Power-driven Religious Zionism Marches Away From Jewish Values
Parading through Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, Orthodox Jews equate Jewish heroism with militaristic nationalism. But there are, and always were, other paths
William Kolbrenner
 
Trump Exposed the Fantasy of Netanyahu's 'Undivided Jerusalem'
Netanyahu's bullying, bluster and hasbara cannot change the empirical facts: Jerusalem is more binational, more contested and more divided than at any point since 1967
Daniel Seidemann
 
 
 
 
 
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