This decision is expected to have zero effect on Israel.

This decision is expected to have zero effect on Israel.

Time will tell if the conduct of the current war in Gaza without a cover from its top court will pay off for Israel.

The only solution to the problem of the Gaza Strip, as well as to the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is diplomatic and not military.

The targets of the accelerated ethnic cleansing who were chosen since October 7 are some of the most vulnerable Palestinian communities in all of the West Bank.

The title that the Israeli media attaches to suspects of far-right terrorism – "a target of the Shin Bet" – sometimes means exactly the opposite of what we think.

The state of Israel paid bribes to diplomats, members of the military junta in Liberia, and its dictator Samuel Doe to aid the growth of Mordechai Yona's Heftziba company, leaked diplomatic cables revealed recently.

Because of the nature of the Israeli apartheid regime, but also because of Netanyahu's political alliance with the far-right, since his second government in 2009 there has been an exponential growth in Israeli-Jewish terrorist incidents in the West Bank.

The US used its self-imposed tag of being a promoter of democracy conveniently. It unapologetically sides with dictators as long as it suits its interests. Whatever may have been the criticism from the US of Netanyahu's policies, he is set to become Biden's favourite, if not tolerable dictator.  

Anna Politkovskaya and Amira Hass have documented the atrocities of the Russian and Israeli states on the Chechens and Palestinians. Their efforts may appear Sisyphean, but their work is a testimony of the innocent victims of war.

Corruption in Israel is no longer about cutting corners but has more do to with laws that are specifically enacted to openly show bias and favouritism towards those who support Benjamin Netanyhau's government.

Israel recently revoked its controversial decades-long policy of censorship with regard to the use of armed drones by its defence forces and their exports executed in collaboration with private military equipment manufacturers. 

The international condemnation and attempts to pinpoint accountability have stopped at the NSO Group, and let the Israeli government off the hook – even though the deadly spyware was exported as part of official policy.

Israel's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine is no more than a public relations campaign meant to blunt international criticism against the government's inaction.

The key lesson should be that the international community cannot continue to make an artificial distinction between a regime's internal and external policies.

The discourse on the 'correct' process of a government approving the use of a Pegasus system is very convenient for surveillance companies like NSO who do brisk business in the meantime.

Had Hannah Arendt been alive, she would have been intrigued by the banality of the employees of Israeli surveillance companies and government officials whose spyware and export licenses help undermine democracy.

The Israeli government is opposing a petition in the country's Supreme Court by 40 citizens which says officers responsible for severe rights violations must not be given training by the Israeli Police.