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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 27, 2026, 12:06 PM

Mossad Must Stop Collaborating with MI5 and MI6

Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government is currently drafting legislation to ban British trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Whitehall officials still softly whisper that commerce with Israel “inside the 1967 lines” will remain unaffected. But this distinction...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 27, 2026, 9:20 AM

They Beat and They Stole

“Man gets used to everything, the scoundrel.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment The Banality of Settler Violence There is something almost flattering in calling these men “extremists.” The word gives them ideological stature. It places them inside a historical drama and...

Aug 24, 2026, 5:07 PM

The Lessons of the Altalena for Israel in 2026

The Altalena burning off the coast of Tel Aviv in 1948. Photo ©️ GPO, 2026

News of the rediscovery of the Altalena was headline news across Israel this week. Seventy-eight years ago, as the Altalena burned on the beachfront of Tel Aviv, the Jewish people were poised on the brink of civil war. In today’s polarizing times,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 AM

Bennett and Liberman Must End the Palestinian Mess

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman correctly reject diplomatic fantasy, but turning that rejection into hard-nosed architecture requires shattering the West’s favorite delusions. For decades, the archaic Israeli foreign policy establishment chased the mirage of a centralized Palestinian state, creating...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 22, 2026, 11:37 AM

The Work of Living After October 7

ALS scares me. So does terrorism. Both force us to confront how suddenly life can change. I did not come to Tuesdays with Morrie as someone revisiting an old favorite. I came to it after October 7, carrying questions I...

Aug 20, 2026, 12:12 PM

Those Who Stand Guard To Protect Our Home

Yesterday, we went out with family and had breakfast at Aroma Café. Many of you who have been to Israel probably know it—it’s such a familiar, very Israeli place. While we were ordering, I noticed the soldiers around us. Some...

Aug 19, 2026, 10:42 AM

What Are They Thinking??

Internationally acclaimed actor Hugh Grant appeared on America’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno in July 1995 approximately 2 weeks after being arrested for “lewd behavior,” while sitting in a parked BMW with a prostitute. With millions of viewers wondering...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 17, 2026, 11:48 AM

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

There is a point at which a community can become so accomplished at explaining the hostility directed against it that it gradually loses the ability to distinguish hostility from criticism, criticism from consequence, and consequence from evidence. The danger...

Aug 16, 2026, 8:00 PM

Israel Is Losing America — and Netanyahu Is Part of the Reason

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to accept responsibility for Oct. 7. Now he wants us to believe he has no responsibility for the collapse of American support for Israel. “I think there’s been a change because of...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 16, 2026, 10:51 AM

The General’s Dangerous Question

Perhaps the General Has Begun Asking the Right Question Gadi Eisenkot has spent most of his adult life inside Israel’s security apparatus. He commanded the army, assessed threats, and worked within a system capable of translating almost every political problem...

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