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Sep 5, 2026, 12:49 PM

Iran Has Every Condition for an Uprising. No Guarantees Yet.

In November 1944, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota advising the War Department, began the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. He needed to understand how prolonged hunger affects the human body and how to safely treat severe malnutrition. Thirty-six...

Sep 5, 2026, 12:46 PM

Gaza: Voluntary Relocation in Name Only

Displacement produced through coercive circumstances This week, within days of each other, two members of Israel's government put new institutional weight behind something that has been implicit in Israeli policy for more than a year. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir...

Sep 4, 2026, 5:38 PM

The Mediterranean answers back

The Eastern Mediterranean is back to an old habit: forming combinations whenever Turkey becomes too eventful. This time, however, the combination contains Israel, which changes the arithmetic considerably. The Israel–Greece–Cyprus Trilateral Partnership The tightening strategic relationship between Israel, Greece and Cyprus...

Paul James Kearns

Sep 4, 2026, 3:44 PM

Netanyahu’s Tactical Victory, Strategic Defeat?

Election Choice

The opinion polls, which have remained relatively stable for months—at least on the choice between the pro-Bibi and the anti-Bibi Zionist bloc—have recently become wildly erratic, with sharp swings and idiosyncratic shifts in the past week or so. The anti-Bibi...

Ryan Aviv Fagan

Sep 3, 2026, 4:51 AM

Israel Can’t Afford Another Netanyahu Government

This fall, Israelis will make a choice far larger than Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud, or the familiar arithmetic of coalition politics. They will decide whether Israel begins repairing the damage of the past several years or allows that damage to...

Sep 2, 2026, 1:35 PM

They didn’t wake me. My hands aren’t clean.

“They didn’t wake me.” And my hands cannot be washed clean There are phrases that set out to explain a catastrophe and end up revealing something rather deeper. “They didn’t wake me” is one of them. Benjamin Netanyahu now maintains that, in...

Sep 1, 2026, 10:24 AM

When the PM’s wife accuses a hero

Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)

Sara Netanyahu not only attacks her husband's opposition, she also answers questions in his name. It's time she answered to the Israeli people

Aug 31, 2026, 6:29 PM

Into the Fray: How Bibi ruined Israel

The impressive post-October 7th achievements of the current government are often overlooked and undervalued. One of the most recurring refrains that resonates in the Bibiphobic echo chamber that overhangs much of the political debate in Israel is the allegation that...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 30, 2026, 5:16 PM

Post-Oct. 7, Israel’s Best Hasbara Is a White Coat

In 1959, Liberian President William Tubman broke his glasses. Liberia had no eye doctor, while consulting one in London required a three-week wait. Tubman turned instead to Israel for help. Isaac Michaelson, chief of ophthalmology at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical...

Aug 30, 2026, 5:15 PM

Altalena Was the Moment Israel Chose to Become a State

A state rarely loses sovereignty in one dramatic act. It loses it by granting exceptions: to armed factions it sympathizes with, civilians it trusts, institutions a government mistakes for its own, and private initiatives born of good intentions. Altalena’s...

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