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Oct 1, 2026, 7:17 AM

Terror at 34,000 Feet

At 3:05 a.m. UTC on September 30, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 lifted off from Dubai bound for Tel Aviv. For more than two hours, there was little to distinguish it from the thousands of commercial flights crossing the Middle East every...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 30, 2026, 11:39 PM

Saudi Tabuk Action Prevents an Israeli 9/11

Netanyahu’s disastrous wishful thinking routinely leads our country to misread the Middle East, treating fleeting tactical relief as a geostrategic victory. The catastrophic vulnerability of this regional security architecture became undeniable on September 30, 2026, when Flydubai flight FZ1073...

Sep 30, 2026, 7:36 AM

Israel Votes, Part II: After October 7, What Are Israelis Actually Voting For?

I asked Israelis in Israel and Israelis abroad — soldiers, immigrants, first-time voters and people who have been voting for decades. They did not give me one answer. That may be the answer. In Part I of this series, I...

Sep 29, 2026, 12:32 PM

India Would Not Join the Netanyahu Walkout

As diplomats streamed out of the UN General Assembly during Benjamin Netanyahu’s address, India remained in its seat. New Delhi’s decision was less a vote for Israel than a declaration that Indian foreign policy will not be dictated by...

Kostis Konstantinou

Sep 29, 2026, 11:14 AM

The Walkout, the Empty Seats, and the Story Sold

Hiram Johnson, the American senator — not Aeschylus, as often claimed — is credited with saying that truth is the first casualty of war. Nowhere has that seemed more apt than in Gaza. We have had the absurdities about genocide; fairy...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:26 PM

CNN, MS NOW and Bibi

“Moshe, do you know what happened when I tried to watch Bibi’s UN speech on CNN and MS NOW?” “Yup,” replied Mordechai. “They weren’t streaming it.” “That really pissed me off. I went ICBM ballistic. Livid, I cursed at my TV...

Andy Blumenthal

Sep 28, 2026, 3:56 AM

Hard-Code G-d Into AI

Artificial intelligence cannot answer only to human commands. It must be built to serve the goodness of G-d and protect the people and world He created. A friend told me about a colleague who accepted lucrative night work after his...

Sep 27, 2026, 7:23 AM

What the Pre-October 7 Warning Reports Actually Show

Sorting the Signal from the Noise The past month has produced a cascade of reporting on what Israeli leadership knew before October 7 — a Haaretz investigation drawn from a forthcoming book, a New York Times follow-up with independent sourcing...

Menachem Rosensaft

Sep 27, 2026, 4:20 AM

Netanyahu’s isolation at the UN: A wake-up call

Hold the presses. If you thought Benjamin Netanyahu's schizophrenically hyperactive cameo appearance at the UN General Assembly this past Thursday was nothing more than a desperate last-ditch attempt on his part to convince Israeli voters in the forthcoming Oct....

Sep 26, 2026, 12:31 PM

Can a movie make us change?

UN general assembly hall, Norbert Nagel, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany via Wikimedia Commons

A film made by Israeli film makers points a damning finger at Israeli policy in Gaza. A musician who has little idea of the forces at play behind his words is dropped from a tour for calling for a...

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