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Jonathan Shavit

Oct 9, 2026, 6:21 PM

Children of Abraham: A review

Published this year, its author Marc David Baer attempts to apply much-needed nuance to a topic, Jewish-Muslim relations, that usually veers into myths of interfaith utopia or perennial antagonism. Spanning the period from Islamic rule to the present, Baer...

Shaike Komornik

Oct 7, 2026, 6:50 PM

Three Years after October 7: Israel Is Stronger, But More Isolated and Divided

Three years after the October 7 attack, the Middle East has changed fundamentally. From an Israeli perspective, Israel moved from the initial shock to adopting a far more offensive security policy, and to a large extent succeeded in altering...

Oct 7, 2026, 6:45 AM

Imagine If This Plane Had Landed in Israel

Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 A6-FKF at Dubai International Airport, 2 January 2026. This aircraft was later involved in the terrorist attack on Flydubai Flight FZ1073. Attribution: UB-TY144, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Flydubai terrorist attack has everything a conspiracy theorist could want. Except, inconveniently, the plane had landed in Saudi Arabia. Imagine for a moment that Flydubai flight FZ1073 had landed in Israel. More ominously, imagine that it had crashed. The jihadi co-pilot...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:28 AM

The Man Who ‘Didn’t Know’ — and a Nation That Must Ask

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There are moments when reality cries out so deafeningly that the silence surrounding it becomes overwhelming. The Tishrei holiday season in Israel used to symbolize family serenity, renewal, and autumnal grace. Today, it stands seared as our national fault...

Nassir Hussein Kahin

Oct 3, 2026, 1:34 PM

If Bab el-Mandeb Cannot Be Restored, the Strategic Map Moves to Berbera

The battle over Bab el-Mandeb is reshaping the strategic geography connecting Yemen, Djibouti and Somaliland, increasing attention on Berbera and Hargeisa. Original HOASR infographic illustration.

The coming battle over the Red Sea chokepoint will determine more than who controls a Yemeni coastline. It could reshape the strategic value of the African shore—and place Berbera and Hargeisa closer to the center of a security system...

Oct 1, 2026, 11:27 PM

After FZ1073, Europe Spoke in Different Voices

The passengers, the captain, and the cabin crew of Flydubai flight FZ1073 are heroes. When catastrophe threatened, they acted. They fought back, helped regain control of the aircraft, and saved lives. What happened afterward was less straightforward. European capitals struggled...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What ‘They Shall Be My People’ Does Not Mean

The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House Brit Olam has printed a verse over the First International Noahide Congress and treated the printing as arrival. “And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in...

P. David Hornik

Oct 1, 2026, 11:43 AM

The flydubai Drama: A Microcosm of the Reality

As we know, a flydubai flight headed to Tel Aviv was seized by an Omani copilot who wanted to crash it and kill everyone onboard—reportedly including 174 passengers, all but eight of them Israelis. His plans were thwarted by the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 30, 2026, 11:39 PM

Saudi Tabuk Action Prevents an Israeli 9/11

Netanyahu’s disastrous wishful thinking routinely leads our country to misread the Middle East, treating fleeting tactical relief as a geostrategic victory. The catastrophic vulnerability of this regional security architecture became undeniable on September 30, 2026, when Flydubai flight FZ1073...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:42 PM

Even the Hummus Has Become Political

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

Even the Hummus Has Become Political There are few things in life that should be less political than food. Food is memory, family, migration, survival, celebration and culture served on a plate. Yet somehow, when Israel is involved, even hummus,...

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