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Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Jun 11, 2026, 10:14 PM

Israeli Sentiments

The Nameless One has shared a powerful reflection of growing frustration within the Zionist world over the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump, particularly regarding Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israeli military restraint. The post included the Hebrew...

Jun 11, 2026, 1:41 PM

Korach: Unholy Coalitions Cloaked in Holiness

One of the most remarkable features of Korach’s rebellion is the extraordinary coalition he manages to assemble. At first glance, the various groups that join him seem to have little in common. Korach himself is a Levite whose grievance appears...

Jun 10, 2026, 3:03 PM

How chaos became the government’s most powerful political tool

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state comptroller election at the plenum of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

By normalizing disruption, the country's leadership is chiseling away at the public's discomfort with tyranny, as we head to elections

Jun 10, 2026, 7:59 AM

Why Trump Is Pivoting on Iran

"If we go and bomb — which we can do very easily — and we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they'll have nothing left whatsoever, but you won't have the Strait open for months." That sentence, delivered...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 10, 2026, 7:57 AM

Dear President Aoun

Dear President Aoun, My name is Jose Lev. I am an American-Israeli scholar, veteran, and member of a people that has buried too many of its sons because leaders mistook delay for wisdom. I write not as an enemy of...

Jun 9, 2026, 11:15 PM

The Israel I Heard on a Mountaintop

John Boyd Thacher Park in New York's Helderberg Mountains. (Photo Credit: "Discover Albany"--https://www.albany.org/listing/john-boyd-thacher-state-park/1967/)

In June 1967, a high school friend and I spent six consecutive nights driving from our homes in Albany, New York, to the top of John Boyd Thacher Park in the Helderberg Mountains. We arrived just before midnight carrying...

Jun 9, 2026, 8:30 PM

From Deterrence to Prevention

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has not only been waging a war. It has changed its strategic framework. Many observers have not yet fully understood the implications. People often continue to analyse Israel with the old vocabulary: deterrence, proportional...

Jun 9, 2026, 5:42 PM

Netanyahu, Trump, and the Shadow of Munich

There are moments in history when diplomacy is not the opposite of war, but the prelude to something worse. That is the fear many Israelis now feel as President Donald Trump presses toward an agreement with Iran while warning Prime...

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Jun 9, 2026, 11:19 AM

The Volatility Paradox

Conventional wisdom holds that Benjamin Netanyahu should feel most comfortable when Republicans occupy the White House and most constrained when Democrats do. For decades, observers have assumed that the Israeli right enjoys a natural affinity with Republican administrations, while...

Jun 9, 2026, 10:30 AM

Zingers, Comebacks and Ripostes

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Okay, here's a test for all my readers. You're the Prime Minister of Israel, and the President of the United States calls you "F***ing crazy." How do you respond? What would you say? Having been insulted by those two powerful words on...

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