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Rebecca Sealfon

Apr 22, 2026, 6:34 PM

The Peace That Endured, and Our Modern Dilemmas

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For the past few months or perhaps years, depending on how you count, I've been bushwhacking my way off the beaten path of contemporary Jewish discourse. The familiar responses never sat right with me. Diaspora should not be a choice...

Mar 17, 2026, 8:01 PM

Bridging the Unbridgeable: A Prima Facie Case for Middle East Complexity

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Every period produces its own divisions — ideological, political, social — but this moment feels different: the fractures run deeper. Today, social media and journalism increasingly follow the tone set by podcasters and influencers, many of whom traffic in...

Mar 17, 2026, 6:50 AM

Standing Together Across the Layers of the Middle East

In December, I wrote an article outlining what I see as the four layers of the Middle East conflict — a framework for understanding the forces that shape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader region. That article was prompted...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 24, 2026, 2:21 AM

Break Iran’s Axis – Rebuild the Middle East Order

The debate is over. Iran’s nuclear and missile programs are not a future threat—they are a present strategic reality. The real question, therefore, is not whether Israel, alongside the United States, acts, but whether that action merely delays the...

Feb 17, 2026, 5:33 AM

Valentine’s Day: Palestine’s Greatest Love Poem Was Written for an Israeli

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s. Credit: Courtesy of Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhim

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic love poetry of the twentieth century and...

Micah Ben David Naziri

Feb 10, 2026, 2:06 AM

The Myth of Jewish ‘Settlements’ in Judea: Arab and European Colonial Projection

The phrase “Jewish settlement” is widely treated as a neutral legal description, but it rests on a mistranslation, a historical erasure, and a selective application of colonial theory. When the Hebrew term yishuv (ישוב) is examined philologically, comparatively, and...

Feb 6, 2026, 6:01 PM

What Does It Mean to Be a Palestinian Israeli?

Trapped between two flags, Arab Israelis walk a tightrope of belonging. One flag represents the state that governs their lives; the other, the nation of their heritage. They are neither fully embraced by Israel’s Jewish majority nor wholly trusted by Palestinians across the Green Line. Identity becomes not a place of comfort, but a site of daily negotiation. (AI-generated)

They carry Israeli passports and vote in Israeli elections, yet many will tell you their soul is Palestinian. The Arab citizens of Israel – about one-fifth of the country’s population – live in a perpetual negotiation of identity. Sociologists...

Nov 30, 2025, 3:48 AM

The Words We Use, the Worlds We Build

Why Shared Humanity Requires Shared Language For months after October 7th, I protected my nervous system with a strict Facebook limit. Recently, I broke my own rule to engage in a discussion about Israel. At first, the exchanges were...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Nov 16, 2025, 10:06 PM

Western Sahara Shows Israel the Way

Morocco just showed the world something the Middle East rarely produces: a conflict-management model that major powers, the UN Security Council, and serious Western capitals can actually accept — and strategically work with. In Western Sahara, Rabat has secured international...

Nov 12, 2025, 10:41 PM

1948: Two Suns Over One Land

Two faces of 1948 – one smiles at a homeland gained, the other weeps for a homeland lost. (AI-generated)

In 1948, the State of Israel was established, marking the end of Jewish exile and centuries of persecution, including the Holocaust. For Palestinians, the same year became al-Nakba – “the catastrophe” – when over 700,000 people were displaced, hundreds...

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