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Sep 20, 2024, 1:18 AM

Inventing the ethical warfare

Asymmetrical warfare has been the dominant mode of conflict since WW2 and until today. In general, it involves a regular army fighting against a terrorist group, an insurgent force, or any armed force perceived as being of inferior capability....

Sep 3, 2024, 6:51 AM

Dark days in Israel

As the month of Av 5784 (September 2024) draws to a close, there is a palpable mixture of anger, sadness and depression never before felt here in Israel. The bodies of six of our dear hostages, Hersh, Eden, Ori,...

Aug 27, 2024, 5:45 AM

Israel: Freier among the nations?

If you call an Israeli obstinate, rude, impolite, insolent, or any such qualifier, he may or may not care. After all, or so goes the local popular wisdom, we are a country at war, we have better things to...

Jul 2, 2024, 7:24 PM

French Parliament Elections: Clear and Present Danger

Former President Chirac, the great innovator, had devised a surefire recipe for winning presidential elections: in the months leading up to the April/May 2002 election, he and then Prime Minister Jospin allowed a wave of unprecedented violence to build...

May 21, 2024, 1:49 PM

Why I am so angry today

Since the beginning of the war, there have been days of calm, days of anguish, days of satisfaction (few) and days of anger. This is one of them, a day when for many Israelis it is difficult to contain...

May 6, 2024, 11:23 PM

ERASE EVERYTHING AND START AGAIN

On May 1st, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations delivered an important speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. For more than 20 minutes, Gilad Erdan made unvarnished accusations and demonstrated the responsibility of the UN...

Apr 11, 2024, 3:02 PM

What is the value of a Jewish life?

The matter is not new: at the worst moments of the 2nd World War, attempts were made to rescue Jews for ransom, most of them unsuccessful. The two that succeeded, albeit to a very limited extent, were in Slovakia,...

Mar 28, 2024, 4:54 PM

President Biden and the US elections

By the end of 2024, the political picture of the world as we know it today might drastically change. The reason for this is simple: over this year, major elections will take place in 82 countries throughout the world,...

Feb 25, 2024, 6:11 PM

Haven’t we learned anything from October 7?

Back in 2013, residents of northern Israel began alerting the authorities to the "non-stop noises" they were hearing deep underground beneath their feet. They suspected then that enemies from the north (Hezbollah or others) were digging tunnels which, reaching...

Feb 11, 2024, 11:44 PM

You’re wrong, Mr. Blinken

When you said a short while ago: "The Israelis were dehumanized on October 7, but that cannot be a license to dehumanize others (understand: the Palestinians)", I’m afraid you've got it all wrong, Mr. Blinken! There is no need to...

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Jean Pierre Braun is a retired Silicon Valley CEO now living in Jerusalem. Born in Paris, Jean Pierre immigrated to the USA after completing its Electrical Engineering degree in France. Besides being a serial entrepreneur, Jean Pierre was also the founder of a unique, very successful Silicon Valley Synagogue, and upon his return to France became Vice President of a local CRIF branch, and the President of the Rachi community in Grenoble. A father of 3 and grandfather of 10 ב'ה, Jean Pierre and his wife Annie made Aliyah in 2016.

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