Israeli Ambassador: 'Only a Strong Israel Can Achieve Peace'

Israeli ambassador: 'Only a strong Israel can achieve peace'

In an interview with DW, Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to Germany, defends his country's military strikes against Iran and Lebanon. He also advises Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz to show more "tact."

Does Israel Want to Be Saudi Arabia?

Americans hold Israel to a higher standard than their other allies. That’s a good thing.

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’

In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in GazaFormer Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, when asked to explain the apparent about-face that led him to advocate the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, quoted a beloved Israeli pop ballad. “What you can see from there, you can’t see from here,” he said, referring to the shift in p…