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Aug 14, 2026, 8:28 AM

It Ain’t Over Until It Is Over

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

For the first time in a long while, someone looking at Israel and the Middle East from a distance might be tempted to believe that the worst is finally behind us. The direct attacks involving Iran appear to have stopped...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Aug 11, 2026, 6:25 PM

Songs of Survival and Hope – Sagui Dekel-Chen

On a warm August night before an audience of thousands at Kibbutz Nir Oz, a place that sits almost adjacent to Israel’s border with Gaza, Sagui Dekel-Chen hosted Songs of Survival and Hope. A concert that once seemed barely...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:49 AM

Boy George–We Will Dance Again

Moshe stared at the screen of his iPhone, smiled, and said, " Mordechai, this one video makes life worth living." "Which one?" Mordechai inquired. "The one by that English-born Catholic lad from a working-class Irish family. The one he sings with...

Aug 10, 2026, 3:37 PM

Independent Observers? Define ‘Independent’

Calling someone independent doesn’t make them independent; the relevant question is independent from whom? Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

International Is Not a Synonym for Independent Why doesn’t Israel allow independent observers into Gaza? Why does Israel block an independent investigation into October 7? If Israel has nothing to hide, why does it prevent independent scrutiny? I hear variations of this question...

David Seidenberg

Aug 9, 2026, 10:42 PM

The charge of genocide in Gaza

An open letter to my friends who believe Israel is not committing and has not committed genocide against Gaza: 1a) You are certainly right that the charge of genocide is being used to generate hatred against all of Israel and...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Aug 8, 2026, 1:01 AM

The genocide argument before the genocide argument

TL;DR: The Gaza genocide debate often begins after the crucial question has already been skipped. Death, deprivation and destruction can be evidence of genocide, but only if they also establish the specific intent to destroy a protected group. A...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Aug 7, 2026, 7:33 PM

What Are Memorials For? A Shirt at Mauthausen

In early August, at the Mauthausen memorial in Austria, a young Jewish woman confronted a touring school group. One student wore a “Free Palestine” shirt, while some of his teachers and peers told her that Israel is committing genocide...

Aug 3, 2026, 7:14 PM

How to tell if you are pro-human

Douglas Murray said, “In every European capital and in America, photos of the Israeli hostages were put up, and in every city, they were torn down. If someone in London or Paris loses their dog, they will put up...

Aug 3, 2026, 6:17 PM

Criticism vs hate

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I began my week with hate mail telling me all of us Jewish Israelis are religious fanatics, maniacs guilty of horrible massacres, and we should all die – hopefully in an imminent Iranian attack. My liberal tendencies kick in....

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