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Jerusalem Post senior contributing editor, writes on diplomacy, politics & Israeli society. Author of French Fries in Pita, collection of slice-of-life columns
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Flydubai terror attempt brings to mind the hijackings of 1970s in Israeli consciousness - comment

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By Herb Keinon Verified
| The Jerusalem Post Verified
For a tense stretch on Wednesday morning, the news carried Israelis back to an older chapter of terror. Not October 7. Not the bus and café bombings of the Second Intifada. Further back: to the aircraft hijackings of the 1970s, when a flight carrying Israelis could become a hostage crisis and an entire country would wait anxiously to learn where the plane had landed and what would happen to those aboard. Dawson’s Field in Jordan. Sabena. Entebbe.
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Has Netanyahu's postponement of a state commission of inquiry into October 7 backfired? - analysis

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By Herb Keinon Verified
| The Jerusalem Post Verified
Netanyahu’s stated argument in the aftermath of the massacre was that the time for a national inquiry would come after the war. That argument had a certain practical appeal. A country fighting on several fronts has urgent demands on its political and military leaders’ attention. An inquiry into the greatest security failure in Israel’s history would be long, difficult, and divisive. It was also politically convenient.
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'Change bloc' meet with no clear solution on how to form a government - analysis

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By Herb Keinon Verified
| The Jerusalem Post Verified
The distinction is crucial. Monday, September 28 marks a cumulative 19 years of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, spread across three periods in office since he first assumed the premiership in 1996. Removing Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is the cement holding the four change-bloc parties together. But agreeing that Netanyahu must go is not the same as figuring out how to muster the 61 seats needed to do so.
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