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Cedric Vloemans

May 22, 2025, 3:51 PM

The myth regarding the occupation of Palestine

Israeli and Palestinian flags next to each other. (Wikicommons, Public Domain. CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated)

The Situation These developments underscore the urgency of a sustainable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For decades, the Middle East has been a powder keg whose fuse never seems to be extinguished. Time and again — you could almost set your...

May 2, 2025, 8:07 PM

Israel’s Eighth Front: The Weaponization of International Law

International courts claim to champion human rights and justice, but when it comes to Israel, they increasingly trade legal standards for political posturing. From questionable ICC arrest warrants to highly selective ICJ opinions, Israel faces a level of legal...

Mar 11, 2025, 12:46 PM

Greater Israel–A Land with no People, For a People with no Land (Part 2 of 5)

Part 2 of 2) Altneuland Herzl’s Altneuland nevertheless provides a very impressive vision. Herzl is au courant with all concurrent developments in science, machinery and technology. The new Jewish State of 1923 has illuminated highways for automobiles and there are gleaming...

Mar 10, 2025, 2:57 AM

Greater Israel—A Land with no People, For a People with no Land

(Part 1 of 5) Greater Israel–A Land with no People, For a People with no Land “Jerusalem stands for certain cosmic insights and human values. These values have spread throughout the the planet and they now embrace, to some degree, all who consciously participate in the...

Norman L. Cantor

Nov 20, 2024, 11:23 PM

Palestinian Rejections of a 2-State Solution

Once upon a time, anti-Israel agitation focused on Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the principal demand was Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders – i.e., to the agreed armistice lines at the conclusion of the 1948 war...

Philip Earl Steele

Jun 30, 2024, 1:41 PM

Opportunities seized – others not: reflections on Theodor Herzl’s 120th jahrzeit

Theodor Herzl street in Edlach, Austria - where Herzl passed away on July 3, 1904. Photo by Youval Orr, documentalist, who has kindly permitted me to use it.

120 years ago this week – July 3, 1904 – Theodor Herzl died at the age of 44 in the Alpine village of Edlach, not far from Vienna. The Father of Zionism, as he is known, had converted to...

Jun 18, 2024, 7:07 PM

Vladimir Solovyov: Israel, axis of world history

Portrait of Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885

Decades before the Balfour Declaration, the 19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov referred to the Jews as the chosen people, the theocratic people par excellence… the axis of universal history. Such a conviction reflects Solovyov’s recognition of the indissolubility...

Jun 11, 2024, 8:11 PM

My Zionism reinforced by an infusion of Isaiah Berlin

I was recently heartened by my discovery of a letter written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, the Oxford-based scholar and philosopher, to his friend Alastair Cooke, journalist and broadcaster noted for his BBC series, “Letter from America”, in which he...

May 11, 2024, 10:44 PM

Connecting the Dots

As I prepared for my Jewish American Heritage Month Lecture, I read my outline and thought, "This outline might be a useful tool for other lecturers or TOI bloggers." So I published it. And I challenged my readers try to...

Christian Rudolf Hamann

May 1, 2024, 9:53 PM

Sustainable Peace Plan for the Middle East – Short Version

The unheeded threat The growing antisemitism and propaganda war since October 7 show that Jews and Israel have many influential opponents in the West. In contrast, behind the Palestinians in Gaza and Hamas there is an Arab and Islamic...

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