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Nov 3, 2026, 9:15 AM

You Can’t Keep Invoking Resolution 181

1947 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

A Follow-Up to “You Can’t Have It Both Ways” My recent article, “You Can’t Have It Both Ways,” made a fairly simple point. Israel held elections. Israeli citizens voted for the 120 members of the Knesset, who will determine who governs...

Nov 1, 2026, 2:22 PM

Time for Real Change: Trust Our Arab Citizens More

Despite the media’s insistence on showing the Netanyahu coalition’s number at 53 and the so-called “change” group at 48 with the Arab parties at 19, the simple truth is the parties elected by Israeli citizens in opposition to Netanyahu...

Oct 26, 2026, 9:04 PM

State Governance and Abuse of Power – New Guardrails for Israeli Democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Ehud Olmert in 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

The next Israeli government must draw a line. What happened cannot happen again — and the reforms needed to prevent it cost nothing and require no constitutional revolution. New laws to constrain abuse of power should be the first...

Oct 23, 2026, 4:13 AM

Zikaron: David Ben-Gurion

In remembrance of Israel’s founding father, and the man who helped turn the oldest national longing in Jewish history into a sovereign reality. “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and national...

Aug 19, 2026, 10:39 AM

Palestinian Rejectionism Is the Harder Problem

Image is free for publication on a commercial platform. If it is, please provide a credit in the caption of the image.. Free download available for non-commercial and commercial use from the website Pexels of a protestor carrying a Palestinian flag amidst smoke and flames in Gaza, the URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/protestor-in-gaza-holding-palestinian-flag-in-smoke-36038663/

If poverty, unemployment and restricted movement were the principal causes of Palestinian violence, why have repeated periods of greater economic opportunity, international aid, political autonomy and diplomatic engagement failed to produce lasting peace? The uncomfortable answer is that material...

Karen Lieberman

Jul 31, 2026, 10:43 PM

Lost Opportunity at the Canadian Human Rights Museum: Nakba Past and Present

An exhibit about the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) opened at the Canadian Human Rights Museum on June 26, 2026. Nakba is the term used for the period of time following the war waged by five Arabic armies against the...

Jul 16, 2026, 9:34 AM

Israel: A Nation Restored, Not a Colony

Photo credtis: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

Israel Is Not the Last Colony. It Is One of History's Great Decolonization Stories. History remembers the twentieth century as the age of decolonization. European empires collapsed, foreign rulers withdrew, and nations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East reclaimed...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 2, 2026, 9:25 AM

Seyag LaTorah, Lo Magen Sheker

סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה, לֹא מָגֵן שֶׁקֶר Seyag LaTorah, Lo Magen Sheker A Fence for the Torah, Not a False Shield Torah is not a private shield against the burden of the people. A true fence around Torah protects the sacred not from responsibility,...

Jun 22, 2026, 2:48 PM

The New Middle East Alignment

Detail of the Israeli national flag highlighting the Star of David, emphasizing its cultural significance as from the Pexels website (https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-the-flag-of-israel-4033852/).

The Abraham Accords have already altered the strategic landscape of the Middle East, demonstrating that cooperation between Israel and key Arab states can endure even amid regional conflict. The next challenge is to move beyond a collection of bilateral...

May 15, 2026, 10:37 PM

May 14, A Day That Will Live In Infamy

Why This Day Is So Meaningful...Especially For Me Fifty-two years ago today, my father died. He was fifty years old. Seventy-eight years ago today, Israel declared its independence — one of the most consequential moments in modern Jewish history. Somehow, I never...

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