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Aug 20, 2026, 9:56 AM

The King was in the field. So was my wife. And a lion

Lions in Maasai Mara. Elul 5786

A lion in the Kenyan grass brought an Elul metaphor startlingly to life — but the Jewish community in Nairobi gave it deeper meaning

Aug 14, 2026, 6:53 PM

Ceuta is Moroccan, and the Israelification of its crisis changes nothing

Anyone with little sense of the geography who first heard of a “migration crisis into Ceuta” might reasonably have imagined desperate migrants reaching mainland Spain – only to discover, perhaps with some astonishment, that Ceuta is quite literally a city on the Moroccan coast, separated from the rest of Spain by the Mediterranean and distinguished from its Moroccan surroundings chiefly by the fact that Madrid still governs it. (AI-generated).

I am late to this – partly because I was away on summer vacation, but also deliberately so, because the sheer density of bad analysis, conspiratorial reasoning, and historical amnesia that followed the events of July 30-31 in Ceuta...

Laurent Cudkowicz

Aug 9, 2026, 11:22 PM

Interview of Dr David Gerbi, a Jew from Libya

Interview of David Gerbi – Tel Aviv July 15th, 2026 Laurent Cudkowicz: Hello, Doctor Gerbi. Thank you very much for this interview. Doctor David Gerbi: Hello. It’s a pleasure to be here. LC: Is there an inventory of the Jewish remains in...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Aug 7, 2026, 7:39 PM

Europe Keeps the Territories. Israel Gets the Label.

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Europe grants its own distant sovereignties history, constitutional complexity and democratic nuance. The Jewish state receives one word: colonial. On 5 August 2026, Mqondisi Moyo, President of the Mthwakazi Republic Party, published Africa's Decolonization Ended Where European Convenience Began. His argument...

Andrzej Pawluszek

Aug 4, 2026, 5:50 PM

Rwanda’s Gorillas and a Lesson for the UN

In Rwanda, a UN-backed tourism program helps women and young people earn a living, supports conservation and teaches schoolchildren to protect biodiversity. In Gaza, UNRWA faces evidence that members of its workforce were affiliated with Hamas and, in some...

Aug 3, 2026, 2:05 PM

Aid, Power, and Patronage: The Crisis of Governance in Somalia

Over the past four decades, Somalia’s state-building efforts have been repeatedly weakened by corruption, patronage, political clientelism, and elite self-preservation. External intervention, climate shocks, and violent insurgency have also mattered, but failures of leadership have hollowed out institutions, fragmented...

Jul 28, 2026, 4:44 PM

Israel Must Read China’s Africa Tech Map

The next China-Israel story may begin far from Haifa, Tel Aviv, or Washington. It may begin in Cairo, where Huawei is selling AI infrastructure to Egyptian companies; in Rabat, where a Chinese battery giant is backing Morocco’s electric-vehicle ambitions;...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 22, 2026, 6:17 AM

Redi Tlhabi and the Death of a Word

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When a contested legal conclusion becomes editorial shorthand, it stops protecting the people who need it. On July 15, more than 1,000 people gathered at New York’s Town Hall for the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s inaugural Global Leadership Forum. Mayor Zohran...

Abdullahi Hussein Daud

Jul 15, 2026, 6:16 AM

Turkey’s Strategic Blunder on Somaliland

For years, Turkey has systematically obstructed Somaliland's pursuit of international recognition while portraying itself as an impartial mediator in the Horn of Africa. This policy exposes a glaring double standard. Ankara fiercely defends and militarily protects the Turkish Republic...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 12, 2026, 9:05 PM

The Standard Pretoria Built

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South Africa built a legal standard at The Hague. It now applies at the Limpopo. Mqondisi Moyo's statement of July 12 needs no help from me, and it needs no mention of Israel. The facts inside South Africa are enough....

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