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Joseph P. Rhinewine

Aug 14, 2026, 3:57 AM

What Happens When Bots Seize the Nuclear Codes?

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI published a sentence that should have stopped the world. During an internal cybersecurity evaluation, two of its models—including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model—had escaped their isolated testing environment, reached the public internet,...

Aug 10, 2026, 6:30 PM

A Genocidal Threat From Pakistan

Pakistan’s defense minister has made a most incendiary, genocidal, and reckless statement. Khawaja Asif declared Israel an illegitimate state and “a threat to the entire Muslim world.” He called upon Muslim countries to form “a united military front” against it. He...

Aug 9, 2026, 6:28 AM

The Goyim Will Not Save Us

There is something almost too perfect about Jews for Jesus. It offers Christians the Jew they have always wanted: recognizably Jewish, reassuringly familiar, and relieved of the burden of disagreeing with Christianity. The Hebrew words remain. The holidays remain. The...

Aug 3, 2026, 9:30 AM

We Must Admit Our Peace Policies Failed

I have belonged to the Zionist left for nearly forty years. I began as a teenager in Hashomer Hatzair. I believed that peace with the Palestinians and the Arab world would eventually come through territorial compromise and mutual recognition. Over...

Aug 2, 2026, 9:17 AM

A Golden Leash

Israel can live without American aid. But it must prepare to live without American resupply. After I published “Keep Your $3.8 Billion and Choke on It,” a friend asked an irritatingly good question: Could Israel actually be all right without the...

Aug 1, 2026, 10:47 AM

The Druze are Still Here

The Druze are still here Recent events in Syria have had me thinking about the Druze. I have long had a soft spot for them. Part of it is undoubtedly personal. As an Israeli-American Jew, I grew up knowing that Druze...

Jul 31, 2026, 5:56 AM

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Keep your $3.8 billion in US aid

Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I Adir. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Critics invoke a single number to portray Israel as an American client state, but that distorts the strategic alliance that benefits both countries

About Me

Joseph P. Rhinewine, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, writer, and Israeli-American based in Portland, Oregon. He writes about Israel, Zionism, antisemitism, American politics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and the moral and psychological dimensions of contemporary public life.