Marc Kornblatt, at The Blogs

Marc Kornblatt

Writer, Filmmaker, Citizen

Jan 1, 2026, 1:06 PM

Welcome, 2026. I want to believe that you will improve upon the results of your two predecessors, but as an American now living in Israel, I don't have high hopes. President Trump’s decision in 2025 to bomb Iran's nuclear sites...

Nov 19, 2025, 12:59 PM

My Grandparents’ Legacy and the West Bank

The images of young Israelis in the West Bank brandishing guns and clubs, killing Palestinian farmers, torching their crops and property, makes me think of my maternal grandparents. I can only imagine how Papa Sam and Grandma Bessie would...

Oct 27, 2025, 9:58 PM

Is US Peace Plan Just Words?

Words, words, words… Call them terrorists or freedom fighters. Either way, thousands of them, led by Hamas, broke through the southern border of Israel on October 7, 2023, butchered and burned nearly 1,200 people, raped with abandon, and abducted 251 people...

Oct 4, 2025, 11:18 PM

Awaiting the Peace Bride

As I watched US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at the White House last week about Mr. Trump’s 21-point (now 20) plan to end the Israel-Hamas War, I couldn’t say which of the two...

Sep 11, 2025, 10:07 PM

Poetic Justice, Bah Humbug!

The murder of Charlie Kirk didn’t make me cry, or cheer. It left me shaking my head. As much as I disagreed with his stands on gun violence, Black people, women’s and immigrants’ rights, I wonder if he, ironically, could...

Aug 28, 2025, 9:40 AM

Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue

Awdah Hathaleen (wearing hat) dances with his neighbors, ca. 2017 (screenshot from "Territory Stories")

The recent killing of Awdah Hathaleen, a Bedouin activist who lived in the West Bank and was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," has taken a heavy toll on Israel. Regrettably, most of the country seems unmoved...

Aug 4, 2025, 10:27 PM

The Mark of Cain

Traveling abroad, I carry two passports that weigh me down like the sea monsters who menaced Odysseus and his crew. The United States is Charybdis, a giant whirlpool able to swallow an entire boat. Israel is the six-headed Scylla primed...

Jul 2, 2025, 9:43 PM

But he bombed the bunkers!!!

Donald and Bibi (Chatbox-generated image)

A number of my American friends asked what I thought of the United States bombing Iran’s nuclear sites. As a proud Jersey boy who lived in the US for more than six decades before moving to Tel Aviv six...

Jun 19, 2025, 11:01 PM

Taking Refuge on P1

The View From Out Balcony (photo by Marc Kornblatt)

This morning I shouldn’t have had to hide in a parking garage when Iran’s biggest salvo of missiles to date rained down on Israel. I had forgotten a crucial piece of information that was available to me. It was...

Jun 17, 2025, 6:10 PM

To Folks Wondering About Us In Israel

Tel Aviv Construction Site (screen shot, Marc Kornblatt)

Thank you for your concern. I’ve gotten so many messages since Friday when Israel launched its first attack on Iran’s nuclear sites that I been overwhelmed. Forgive me for sending you this update like a yearly holiday letter. I...

About Me

Filmmaker/writer Marc Kornblatt is the director of the award-winning documentaries DOSTOEVSKY BEHIND BARS, STILL 60, and LIFE ON THE LEDGE, and more than 20 web series, including BLUE & RED, RESPECTFUL ENCOUNTERS OF THE POLITICAL KIND. His latest documentary SLIDING TO 70, which chronicles a year in his life during the Gaza War, is currently on the film festival circuit. He and his wife made aliyah in 2019 and live in Tel Aviv.

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