Alan Edelstein

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Sep 30, 2024, 9:41 PM

Ceasefire now???

Israel conducted a massive targeted bombing in a Beirut neighborhood, killing Hezbollah chief Nasrallah and several Hezbollah leaders. The world is a better place because they are gone. The world should rejoice. But much of the world has reservations about...

Jul 16, 2024, 6:10 AM

My day in the South

I had been reticent to go down south to the sites of the October 7th massacre. Firstly, we live in Israel. We are surrounded by reminders of the deadly day, the pain of the hostages and their families, the...

Jul 5, 2024, 5:49 PM

Memo from a disgruntled Israeli

MEMO TO: UN, EU, US, and all of the self-righteous intersectionalists at elite US universities who don't understand anything about the Middle East and don't say a word about the famine in Sudan but love to dump on Israel...

May 20, 2024, 1:05 PM

My wife and I arrived back in Israel two weeks ago after an extended stay in the US. Even with the overwhelming problems and challenges, it felt great—liberating—to be back. You immediately feel that here Jews are making our...

Mar 26, 2024, 11:16 AM

Biden’s terrible turn

President Biden’s initial responses to Hamas’ atrocities demonstrated moral clarity, strategic acumen, and clear support for the victim of the attack, Israel. Now, either from strategic errors or out of political concerns, or both, Biden is making some very serious...

Jan 31, 2024, 7:19 AM

“You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind ... a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.” Rod Serling’s introduction to The...

Jan 26, 2024, 7:21 AM

Biden, Bibi, the Emir, and Tony Soprano

Over his decades in politics, President Biden has demonstrated a genuine warmth for and attachment to Israel. One cannot question that in the current war he demonstrated unprecedented support at some political risk. He made a trip to Israel to...

Jan 22, 2024, 2:36 AM

Is the world upside down?

Country A is viciously attacked by Terrorist Group B, which rapes and tortures women, mutilates bodies, kidnaps and holds hostage children and women and the elderly, fires thousands of missiles at civilians, and pledges to do it all again. Country...

Nov 23, 2023, 12:16 PM

Blowin’ in the wind

As I was driving my car back from a store in the southern part of Jerusalem on Tuesday, Peter Paul & Mary’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” was blowin’ through the speakers. “How many times must a man look up....

Oct 15, 2023, 10:55 AM

It’s been a week since the horrendous attack by Hamas on Israel. I am sad, overwhelmed, angry, and feeling helpless. It’s been difficult to get a handle on thoughts, to think things out. I wouldn’t even call these Random...

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Alan Edelstein made Aliyah in 2011 and lives in Jerusalem. He was the founding partner of a well-respected California government affairs firm and was involved in California government and politics as a lobbyist and consultant for 30 years. He blogs at www.edelsteinrandomthoughts.com. He can be reached at alanedelstein10@gmail.com

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