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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 14, 2025, 11:29 PM

When bad people do good things

Evil in one context, good in another I'm not talking about most people and organizations being neither completely good nor bad, like the cliché that Hitler loved dogs. I'm not even thinking of people changing, like MTG going from pro-Trump...

Aug 25, 2025, 8:20 PM

Day 689 of the War: Bring Them Home Now

Begin last Saturday night, my photo

I stopped watching television more than 20 years ago, but every so often, when I hear about a recommended program, I try to watch it to stay updated. Over the weekend, everyone in my circle was shocked by the...

Aug 20, 2025, 8:11 AM

A Reflection: August 17, 2005

Twenty years. Twenty years since the unilateral and complete removal of every Israeli and Jew, both residents and army personnel, from every one of the 21 yishuvim, towns, farms, and communities in the entire Gaza Strip. Twenty years since...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 1, 2025, 11:45 AM

Stopping Ministerial Corruption: Full Financial Disclosure

Israel is not a Third World country by any means. But in one category, it’s up there with the worst: ministerial corruption, including the very top of the governmental pyramid. It’s an embarrassment for a nation with great pride...

Jul 22, 2025, 11:59 AM

The power of political cartoons

One of my earliest memories is of a newspaper cartoon marking the liberation of Belsen. It shows a shocked GI shining his torch into a cave in which an ape-like monster wearing a Nazi armband stands, glowering, amid a...

Jun 9, 2025, 8:03 PM

Divide-and-Rule: Netanyahu’s Flawed Strategy

Divide-and-Rule: Netanyahu's Flawed Strategy

Binyamin Netanyahu’s political beliefs have been open-ended since inception albeit glossed over by the international community. A lot has changed, since his election as Likud party chairman in 1993, yet trends and tactics remain the same. A policy of ‘land...

Feb 5, 2025, 9:55 PM

20 Years Later: Lessons from Israel’s Disengagement

Twenty years ago, Israel left Gaza with hopes of security and peace. Instead, it got rockets, war, and the deadliest attack in its history. What went wrong? On February 16, 2005, in a 59-40 vote, the Israeli Knesset approved the...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 5, 2025, 11:58 PM

As it ends well, all is well—Obama, Biden, Carter, Bush, and Trump as lame ducks

How US presidents really treated Israel shows when they're lame ducks Obama knew racism, so I assumed he understood Jew-hatred. Wrong. He only liked court Jews in the US, not the self-aware Israeli ones. Much lying went around about him,...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Nov 15, 2024, 6:55 AM

All Fired Up: Bibi’s Hatchet

What do these four Israeli politicians – Mordechai, Yaalon, Lieberman, Gallant – uniquely share in common? Yes, they all served as Defense Ministers (DMs) over the past few decades, but so did some others. Their special common denominator: all...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jul 26, 2024, 9:33 AM

When a Country Leader’s Health Goes Downhill

As my annual driver’s license renewal approached recently, I received a notice from Israel’s Motor Vehicle Bureau to first undergo a medical checkup and an eye test before granting me the renewal. As this was the first time I...

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