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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...

Aug 10, 2026, 7:57 AM

Normalization from the Saudi Perspective: Part II

Crown Prince Abdullah and Kissinger's realpolitik miscalculation During my tenure as an American defense contractor working in support of the Saudi Air Force, I found myself in a detailed conversation with Dr. Henry Kissinger. The region was transitioning through a...

Jul 30, 2026, 1:08 AM

How Did We Get Here?

The massacre of October 7th and the ensuing wars that have exploded around the Middle East as a response, have brought to the surface a deep chasm that has been brewing within Israeli society for some years now. They...

Charlotte Mendel

Jul 22, 2026, 8:52 PM

Are you a black and white thinker? A protective presence shift

Images by Charlotte Mendel

The photo shows left-wing protesters demonstrating outside a conference held by Haaretz in London and extremist settlers who have broken into Husni's compound–my Bedouin host where I sleep when I'm in the West Bank. They are insisting an Arab...

Jul 22, 2026, 8:42 PM

A Meditation Before Laying Tefillin On Tisha B’Av

I believe that it has been close to twenty years that I lead a Tisha B’Av pilgrimage reading passages of Lamentations where either Jews or non-Jews have suffered khurban (destruction) in our day, or are in danger of khurban....

Apr 6, 2026, 12:54 PM

2X2: Exposure – Denial, A Novel – A Reality Check

Reality Check in Unrecognized Desert Space (Gemini generated image)

Once it was B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Flak from neighbors. One neighbor heard from another that I like Arabs. I asked how the other neighbor knew. The logo on envelopes sticking...

Feb 2, 2026, 4:42 AM

Stars of David: Jewish pioneers in space and Israel’s cosmic rise

Picture this: a nation reborn from the ashes of history, now launching its gaze to the stars. As NASA prepares for Artemis II this month, a historic orbit around the Moon, Israelis have every reason to look up in...

Jan 10, 2026, 4:38 PM

The Confrontation with Impunity – and Identities

Legal stamp for impunity of human rights offenders.
(genaicreative.art generated by Harriet Gimpel)

Working for a binational organization in Israel with two offices, one in Israel and one in the Palestinian West Bank is a setup for confrontation. I know. I've done it. When I began such an episode in August 2023,...

Harel Ben-Michael

Dec 29, 2025, 8:30 PM

Ben Gvir is Failing – and the Negev Is Paying the Price

“In the Negev, the future of the people of Israel will be tested,” Ben-Gurion once said - and he knew exactly why. In recent years, public awareness has finally begun to awaken to the political abandonment of the Negev:...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Nov 26, 2025, 8:12 PM

The symbol of Israel’s desert heritage

In Parshat Vayetzei (Breisheet 31:34) we read about Rachel and her camel: Rachel had taken the idols, and placed them in the camel’s saddle pillow, and sat upon them… Camels existed in the Land of Israel from before the days of...

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