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Whimsy Anderson

Sep 20, 2026, 1:13 AM

Fewer prisons, more kibbutzim An olive branch with a gate

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Some people in Jerusalem think talk of integration is crazy or naive. What is crazy is doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result. Despite my belief in creating mixed communities. I have never been naive...

Sep 18, 2026, 7:07 PM

Baptism 2030: Israel, Jordan and Palestine Unlock Kahlat and the Copper Scroll?

Israel and Jordan Prepare for the 2,000th Anniversary of the Baptism: Could Academic Cooperation Reveal the Secrets of Kahlat and the Copper Scroll? The year 2030 will mark 2,000 years since the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River—an event...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 10, 2026, 6:21 AM

More Arab Parties As Israel Becomes Anti Netanyahu

A survey published August 19, found that 74% of respondents believe Arab Israel society urgently needs new public figures and leadership, amid political divisions ahead of the Knesset elections. And 24% of Israeli Jews Support a Two-State Solution. According to...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Sep 9, 2026, 10:52 PM

Could Jews Live in a Palestinian State?

AI Composite Illustration (Bernard Markowicz)

Separating the right to live in the land from the right to rule it. The first post tested Omer Bartov’s argument against settler violence and unequal enforcement in the West Bank. This post moves from diagnosis to possibility: could...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:21 PM

I worked at Britain’s embassy in Israel. The East Jerusalem consulate had to go

Photo of British Embassy Tel Aviv taken by Shlomo Kates.

Israel’s decision to shut the diplomatic post may look like retaliation, but it exposed a UK Mideast policy built on an untenable fiction

Sep 8, 2026, 1:56 PM

Asking Forgiveness from non-Jewish Israelis

President Herzog, June 20223 (Haim Zach/GPO)

When we here in Israel soon gather for the Tishrei holidays and examine the past Hebrew calendar year’s deeds, including interpersonal relationships, we’ll most likely focus on our familiar – Jewish – environs. There are good reasons why we...

Aug 17, 2026, 10:16 AM

Why the Appalling Rate of Murder in the Arab Sector Fails to be Addressed

In some jurisdictions, like in Mexico, the provincial police especially tend to be brazenly corrupt, operating as essentially the biggest gang in town. They often act in concert with the 'deeper state' actors (the cartels) in their criminal enterprises....

Aug 16, 2026, 12:28 AM

Lame Shades of Solidarity

Flowers, Lame Solidarity, Fading
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When Israel is Wrong, Advocate for Human Rights When Zazim published a petition, promising to distribute flowers in the name of the signatories, I complied. It was the day after primetime television featured the brother of an injured soldier claiming...

Aug 14, 2026, 6:20 PM

The Non Apartheid State of Israel

Celebrating the Jewish Ethiopian Sigd holiday in Jerusalem. Photo, (c) T. Book, 2026

To call Israel an apartheid state is absurd as saying that there are equal rights to all peoples in any of the countries surrounding Israel. To call Israel an apartheid state is in the words of Colonel Richard Kemp: Not...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

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