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Oct 19, 2026, 1:25 PM

China Lectures Israel on the West Bank: What About Tibet?

CIA Map of Tibet with "Approximate Line of Communist Advance" and cities "Reportedly occupied by Communists" dated February 1950 and marked "CONFIDENTIAL". (Source: Wikimedia Commons).

On 15 October 2026, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog to halt and reverse what Beijing calls the “forced establishment” of settlements in the occupied West Bank. This was stated when the two leaders...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:31 AM

When the Bed Is a Battleground: October 7, Beta Israel Theology, and Redemption

A close friend of mine lives in Montreal. She is active in an important organization dedicated to women’s rights, particularly helping women who have suffered as a result of wars and armed conflicts. She is an extraordinarily compassionate person,...

Brendon Stewart Freedman

Oct 6, 2026, 9:39 AM

Should Family Physicians Encourage Patients to Vote?

Voting can empower and perhaps improve health.

What Does Voting Have to Do with Health? What does voting have to do with health? More than you might think. A study of 170 countries found that those with stronger democratic institutions tended to have healthier populations, particularly when those...

Purna Lal Chakma

Oct 5, 2026, 8:18 AM

Is Bangladesh Turning the CHT Accord Into a Security Issue?

Santu Larma, chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, is shown in an editorial illustration highlighting Indigenous concern over Bangladesh’s three new CHT committees and the future of the 1997 CHT Accord. Editorial illustration created by the author for editorial purposes.

For the Indigenous peoples of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, three new government committees are raising an old and troubling question: is a political problem that Bangladesh promised to resolve through the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord being turned once again...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 28, 2026, 4:03 AM

⁦⁧איפה משה היום?⁩ | ⁧أين موسى عليه السلام اليوم؟⁩ | Where Is Moses Today?⁩

Pharaoh’s Guide to Modern Political Leadership When you cannot answer the accusation, commission a biography of the accuser. A satire on the "modern" press "office". The first rule of machiavellian political leadership is straightforward: when someone asks what you have done,...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 27, 2026, 4:56 AM

Analysing Moses – Take off your Sandals.

Taking Off Your Sandals: Humility Before God, Responsibility Before Others Approach revelation with humility. Trust God with the unseen. Use your intellect—and protect other people’s rights. Moses عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ approaches a fire. Then he hears a command that changes the significance...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 26, 2026, 1:27 PM

The best perfume you can wear.

What the everyday conduct of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ teaches us about the impression we leave on others. Before leaving home, we check the mirror. We straighten a collar, adjust our hair and perhaps apply a little perfume. We want our...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 22, 2026, 3:18 AM

The Civilian Black Box

The Civilian Black Box When an airliner crashes, we search for the black box. We recover the flight-data recorder. We recover the cockpit-voice recorder. Investigators reconstruct what the aircraft was doing, what its systems were doing, what the crew knew and what happened...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 19, 2026, 1:43 AM

On Urban Planning – Multiple use city spaces.

The Two-Job City Cities have a space problem. Land is expensive. Roads consume enormous areas. Roofs sit beneath sunlight while rainwater is sent immediately into drains. Walls absorb heat. Car parks bake in the sun. Streetlights illuminate roads at night and...

Sep 17, 2026, 11:01 AM

Collateral Benefit

The real test raised by NAZA - the Hebrew military acronym for collateral damage - is not whether its filmmakers are right. It is whether a state confident in its force is equally confident in evidence, law and institutions...

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