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Jul 13, 2025, 5:06 PM

Peace Prospects between Israel, the Palestinians and the Middle East Countries

The ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict has lasted over 640 days, resulting in nearly 2,000 Israeli and an estimated 60,000 Palestinian casualties. To assess the prospects for peace we will examine the current goals of the main participants to the conflict. Iran:...

Sergio Restelli

Jul 13, 2025, 4:58 PM

The Iran Regime is forcing out Afghan refugees with Israel as the excuse

In what amounts to one of the largest mass expulsions in recent history, Iran has deported more than 1.1 million Afghan refugees since the beginning of the year. The campaign has intensified in recent weeks, with as many as...

Stephanie Campbell

Jul 13, 2025, 3:10 PM

The Softening: When Survival Needs No Disclaimer

We soften before we speak. We thought wrapping truth in empathy would help us survive. Out of instinct, not insincerity. Somewhere along the line, we were taught that Jewish pain must be buffered. That Never Again would only be heard...

Jul 13, 2025, 2:50 PM

Realism and Resolve: Why power is needed to defend liberal order

A Israeli soldier walks in front of a tank near the border with Lebanon, Saturday, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A central challenge for democracies today is preserving internal values of law, pluralism, and freedom while operating effectively in a world that often rejects those ideals. The Israeli experience epitomizes this tension: as a robust and vibrant democracy with...

Jul 13, 2025, 7:29 AM

The Ratcheting of the Three Weeks – will we learn?

A Nation That Remembers - perhaps this time, this year, we will reflect on the nature and the ratcheting up of the tempo of the three weeks. I am certainly paying more attention to its incredible structure. The ratcheting up...

Ya'aqov Shenkin

Jul 13, 2025, 7:24 AM

Let’s Combat Religious Zionism’s Existential Threat

Today is the 17th Tammuz, traditionally a fast date commemorating a bevvy of tragedies which befell the Jewish people. However, the centre of this mourning, and the nature of these tragedies, has always focused the exile of the Jewish...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 12, 2025, 10:29 PM

Netanyahu continues to do a great job

"If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference" - Abraham Lincoln The Israeli anti-Netanyahu...

Ella Ben Emanuel

Jul 12, 2025, 10:29 PM

The Great Israeli EV Splurge

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2025 hasn’t been a great year. For anyone. Whenever I start to complain, I shut myself up by thinking of the families of hostages, of parents who lost their 19-year-old sons in Gaza, of people whose homes were blown...

Jul 12, 2025, 10:27 PM

The Radicalization and Ethical Crisis in Social Work

When Social Work Fails Its Ethics: The Radicalization of Social Work The field of social work prides itself on principles of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion for communities that have been marginalized. Yet since October 7th, a glaring hypocrisy has...

Jul 12, 2025, 3:50 PM

Free Israel from the false label of apartheid

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

Apartheid in Israel? A Closer Look at the Real Meaning of "Apart" "Apartheid", it’s a word that has become increasingly weaponized in global conversations about Israel. But let’s take a step back and look at its original Dutch meaning. In...

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