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May 19, 2025, 2:07 PM

Day 591 Of The War: This Is Our Fight

last night at Habima Square, my photo

Last week, I didn’t write my blog because I went on a short vacation to Paris to see some art and experience everyday life in another country. I tried not to stay glued to the news, but I was...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

May 6, 2025, 3:12 PM

The wishful thinking of Ehud Barak

Opinion Extremist fringe parties love to translate their idealism into pipedreams. Their fanaticism can be dangerous and must be exposed, though their value may be inspiring or fueling more reasonable and realistic ideas for change, like we find in Benny...

Jan 12, 2025, 6:40 PM

How workers of a Brooklyn theatre are trying to hijack history

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language The Alamo Drafthouse theatre in Brooklyn recently started screening September 5, a historical drama thriller that depicts the 1972 Munich Massacre from...

Sep 8, 2024, 4:43 PM

Day 338 Of The War: Throwing Dust/Sand In Our Eyes

Walking north on Begin highway I saw this devastating display

It’s hard not to dwell on the symbolic meaning of arresting the young woman who allegedly threw sand in Ben Gvir's direction when he appeared at the beach in Tel Aviv on Friday. She was taken into custody and...

Feb 23, 2024, 6:11 PM

Weaponizing the Hostages

When I think of the hostages, in particular of the women going through the hell that the Palestinians are surely inflicting on them, I want to lash out. I want to hurt someone. I can’t even think about it...

Feb 20, 2024, 10:57 AM

Ehud Barak’s Plot against Israel

Ehud Barak is not only the former deputy head of the Air Force who was instrumental in scuttling the Lavi fighter jet project in 1987, making Israel more dependent on the United States. Ehud Barak is not only the former...

Raphael BenLevi

Nov 29, 2023, 1:20 AM

Hamas Massacre Proves Iran is Existential Threat

For the past two decades there has been a debate raging within Israel regarding the nature of the threat posed by a nuclear Iran. Some have argued that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel, while...

Jonathan Zausmer

Nov 15, 2023, 6:57 PM

The Barghouti Option

In the wake of the events of October the 7th 2023 and the resulting war in Gaza, many of those in the peace camp in Israel - and indeed various other pundits on the Israeli side, are now looking...

Sep 26, 2023, 1:29 AM

What Oslo Critics Omit

The anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords prompted a flurry of commentary that fell into two general categories. The first were the participants and optimists who lament what could have been, admit Oslo was a failure, but...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 28, 2023, 2:01 PM

Ben Gvir suspecting and accusing Barak and Golan of incitement is incitement

We are ready to renew resisting. We did not relent, slumber, or forget. Reportedly, a special incitement task force is going to probe former prime minister Ehud Barak and ex-MK for Meretz Yair Golan for comments urging anti-government protests, according...

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